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Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny was pleased to rediscover her ballroom skills at the weekend for the extravaganza known as the...
RSA to treble surveyors.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to treble the number of property surveyors it employs as part of a new build...
New India enjoys boom.
Broker-only insurer New India Assurance is recruiting additional staff for its main UK underwriting ...
Policy database goes live.
A general insurance database for brokers was launched last week. It has been set up by The Researc...
We want you as a new recruit.
The number of graduates leaving universities is rising each year and insurers are using a host of tactics to try and entice them to come and work for them. Edward Murray reports.
Moody's to rate Lloyd's syndicates
Individual Lloyd's syndicates are to be given financial strength ratings by rating agency Moody's. ...
CGU invests £200m in bancassurance move in Spain
Insurer CGU is to set up a bancassurance operation in Spain following a £200m investment in Spanish s...
We won't penalise GPs for health cover': CGU.
Critical health insurers have slammed proposals by a rival to exclude or weight premiums against doc...
Interest in CGU.
Up to 10 US companies are reported to be interested in acquiring CGU's US property and casualty oper...
Huge leap' for claims.
Royal & Sun Alliance and software specialist The Innovation Group have teamed up to deliver a new so...
AA mortgage cover.
The AA has launched a mortgage protection plan that insures people against failing to meet repayment...
RSA to launch fraud units.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to roll out dedicated fraud units in its UK household claims centres to comb...
CGU announce participation in the BT Global Challenge yacht race.
CGU announced its participation in the BT Global Challenge yacht race on Monday with the christening...
Uncertainty is over ... isn't it?
Anthony Gould analyses the implications of the long-awaited ruling in the credit hire test case Dimond v Lovell.
Nil points.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Church insurer hits back at claim of 'inflated premiums'.
Leading church insurer Ecclesiastical has defended itself against claims of "inflated premiums". ...
Ryan into Norfolk.
Ryan Insurance Group of Ipswich has acquired Toothill and Trevethick, previously part of the Richmon...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is currently dusting down her frocks for her latest VIP trip. The event in question has not...
Cover online but off target.
The sale of medical insurance over the Internet in the UK has been slow since the first products wer...
By jingo, it's a new lingo.
In his new book Treasury Risk, Professor David Bland has coined new words to explain modern risk theory. David Worsfold gets to grips with the word on the sheet.
Broker smells cash in country air.
A leading insurance broker has struck a deal with Country Life magazine to sell high net worth insur...
What the Papers Say.
Daily Express A saleswoman made to wear a sumo wrestling costume to conform to her company's 'tea...
Dimond will not affect credit hire firms' spoils.
I write with regard to the House of Lords decision on the Dimond v Lovell credit hire case (PM 11 Ma...
Hurley to retire.
Liverpool Victoria's deputy chairman Roy Hurley (left) is to retire after 42 years in the financial ...