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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...
Appointment at Insurex Expo-Sure.
Two new staff have joined the underwriting team at Insurex Expo-Sure. Tracy Roberts was previously a...
Miller Pycraft to investigate £250,000 loss.
CGU has instructed loss adjuster Miller Pycraft to investigate a £250,000 loss at Scrooges retail an...
Calls for LTC rules to cut mis-selling mishaps.
The government must act quickly to introduce new legislation to avoid mis-selling over long-term car...
Audatex: BMW seal.
The new real-time bodyshop management system from estimating specialist Audatex has been approved by...
LTC ruling opens up market.
The government's long-overdue response to the Royal Commission's report on long-term care in the UK ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Ian Stirrups has become the appointed actuary for Ecclesiastical Insurance's two life funds. He join...
CGNU general insurance results disappointing
CGNU, formed from the merger of Norwich Union and CGU, has recorded a fall in profits for the first s...
Egg general insurance site signs up Cox support
A new online general insurance business from Prudential-owned Egg, to be branded Egg Insure and offer...
Crime record blues
A blueprint to provide a clearer and more reliable picture of crime in England and Wales in the 21st ...
BAIG to acquire US insurer
The British Aviation Insurance Group is to acquire specialist US aviation and satellite insurance syn...
Churchill adds Alliance & Leicester to its brands
Churchill has been appointed sole underwriter and administrator for the car insurance account of Alli...
PIA fines Bundfuss.
The Personal Investment Authority has taken disciplinary action against JR Bundfuss & Associates in ...
Cracks show as Clancy leaves UK Subsidence Group.
One of the six founding members of engineering consortium the UK Subsidence Group has quit to join n...
Mexican earthquake.
Mexico was given a stark warning last week when it was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Ric...
Insurers gain from ruling.
Insurers are set to benefit from last weeks' decision by law lords to abolish barristers' immunity f...
Upbeat up north.
The financial services sector is thriving in the North-East of England, with insurers, brokers and loss adjusters playing their part in rejuvenating a once declining area. Marcus Alcock reports.