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Ineas to expand.
Holland's Internet-based direct insurer Ineas, which provides household, motor and liability insuran...
The chosen one.
Legal & General has been selected by mortgage lender Platform Home Loans to underwrite its block pol...
A helping hand.
Motor insurers are the cause of tough times for bodyshops, and are paving the way for high capital salvage operators, as David Fanning finds out.
Ups & downs.
Tina Walsh examines the Lloyd's private motor sector and discovers that despite the number of syndicates falling because of mergers, the outlook is not entirely bleak.
Cable company signs up insurers.
Leading cable television company Ntl is poised to sign up major insurers to its forthcoming interact...
Drivers let off lightly.
The motor insurance sector is still suffering turbulent times as our supplement this week illustrate...
CIS website is a disappointment.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Friends Provident to demutualise
The board of Friends Provident has recommended demutualisation and a stock exchange float by the end ...
Exclusive car insurance from Lloyd's of London.
Lloyd's of London hopes to race to success this season after offering exclusive car insurance to own...
QBE boots out Limit merger.
Lloyd's insurer Limit's £1.3bn merger with Wellington is in ruins this week following an unsolicited...
Right on CUE.
Veronica Cowan found some sensitivity about the 'F' word when trying to discover what brokers and loss adjusters are doing about fraud.
The rocky road to loyalty.
Can the motor market turn the corner? Of course it can, but there will be casualties left behind. Th...
Industry lacks loyalty.
We are all aware of the losses that have bedevilled general insurance over the last few years and mo...
Direct Line claims online lead
Insurer Direct Line claims to have taken a 40% share of the online car insurance market in the UK in...
RSA profits down despite rise in premium income
Royal & Sun Alliance, the UK's largest general insurer, saw profits for the first three months of the...
All for one progress by Zurich
Anglo-Swiss Zurich Financial Services has taken a step forward in its quest to end its twin holding c...
Tokio and State Farm swap risks.
Tokio Marine & Fire and State Farm Mutual have bypassed the reinsurance market and exchanged $200m o...
Battling for Pole positions.
As higher retentions and less quota share business shrink the Polish reinsurance market, Adrian Leonard reports on tough times for the country's reinsurers.
Tax crackdown is boost to insurers.
A tax-evasion clampdown will be a boost to insurers of small business. The Inland Revenue intends...
Signing of a deal.
Hiroyoshi Wada, chief executive of Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance, celebrates with Peter Presland, ...
Road safety statistics.
New government road safety statistics which show north Yorkshire has the most dangerous roads in the...
Lifeline for IFAs.
CGU Life is to offer IFAs improved term assurance and mortgage protection contracts. Rates have been...
Standard Life to give nod to demutualisastion vote.
Standard Life has said it is likely to give the green light for a vote on possible demutualisation w...
£2m from Catalyst.
SafeOnLine, a global provider of digital and cyber risk solutions, has received £2m investment from ...