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Ocaso scheme all Wight for over-50s.
Spanish insurer Ocaso is trialling a pilot building and contents scheme for the over-50s through a b...
Mark Lovatt scoops Tour of the Cotswolds.
Cyclist Mark Lovatt, pictured with his fiancee Karen McBarrons, scooped a double victory last week w...
Pamela Cornelius v Dr N De Taranto.
Queens Bench Division 30 June 2000 A doctor disclosed a medico-legal report containing defamato...
Jamjar thumbs up.
Direct Line's jamjar.com website, which provides access to a range of UK-supplied cars and part exch...
No let up for Direct.
Disgruntled former franchisees of personal injury specialist Claims Direct have vowed to continue th...
Equity Red Star in front running for QBE's Ensign.
Lloyd's motor insurer Equity Red Star, owned by Cox Insurance Holdings, is understood to be the pref...
Home loans for mortgage misfits.
A new company has opened for business with the launch of a range of products for brokers and indepen...
Auto Indemnity makes deals on wheels.
Credit hire company Auto Indemnity expects to sign deals for the provision of credit hire services w...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Tis' the season of summer holidays and results when finding somebody to talk to can be as difficult ...
DL not flagging.
Direct Line is giving 180,000 online quotes per month and claims to have 30% of the online general i...
BAIG all set to go global in US.
The British Aviation Insurance Group is set to take over US aviation and satellite insurance syndica...
US insurers drive short-changed motorists to sue.
Insurers, regulators, drivers, US courts, arbitrators and consumer groups are embroiled in a dispute...
Allianz net growth.
The Retail Motor Industry Federation has welcomed Allianz Cornhill's decision to increase its approv...
Sign of the times.
Electronic signatures were last week granted the same status as handwritten originals. The move will...
Royal & Sun Alliance UK general business hit by rate increaes
Royal & Sun Alliance has announced a slight increase in operating profit of £5m to £320m for the firs...
Ease in Mynd.
IT solutions and services provider Mynd has introduced the 'I Plus Product Builder' for customers o...
The road to improved claims.
Loss adjuster Crawford and Company has teamed up with CGU in an attempt to streamline the insurer's ...
Drake expectations.
A further 25,000 Drake Insurance motor policy cancellation letters are to be sent out over the weeke...
High-street chains step on brokers' toes.
The threat to traditional distribution channels posed by the remorseless march of the high-street re...
Difficulties, but life reaches new heights.
Fifty years ago, the review of the year showed growth in the life market and problems in the general...
QBE: plan to sell off motor advances.
Australian insurer QBE has announced that it plans to sell Syndicate 980, Ensign Motor Policies at L...
Japanese merger.
Japan's Koa Fire & Marine Insurance and Nippon Fire & Marine Insurance Co are to adopt a one-for-one...
Churchill gets A&L motor.
Direct insurer Churchill has won a contract with Alliance & Leicester to offer motor insurance to it...
Hanover Park fined.
The Personal Investment Authority has fined Hanover Park Financial Services of Upper Norwood, London...