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Drug-drive tests 'years away'.
Roadside drug testing is still years away, despite public concern about the affects of drug-driving ...
Tissue factory inferno sparks off legal fight.
Independent Insurance, a Lloyd's underwriter and a Birmingham broker have become embroiled in a £10m...
MVRA launches new standard.
A new quality standard has been launched by the Motor Vehicle Repairers Association in a bid to diff...
National network.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis & Buckle next week centralises its Home Services adjuster field force...
New fog clearing device.
A new fog clearing device could stop insurers getting misty eyed over cloudy claims. The Dry Ice Spr...
... a personal lines underwriter.
In the first part of a new series, Jonathan Swift spent a day with Hiscox's Austyn Tusler to find out what a personal lines underwriter gets up to ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
John Beston has been appointed as motor fleet manager for Ecclesiastical Insurance. He will be based...
Not bad for a first effort.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
MULRA advocates responsibility.
Underwriters should be forced to accept responsibility for unregulated, uninsured loss recovery oper...
Routledge quits Octavian
Peter Routledge has resigned as active underwriter of Octavian Syndicate Management's motor syndicate...
Nac Re upgrade.
Following XL Capital's acquisition of Nac Re in June 1999, rating agency Standard & Poor's has raise...
GIC to expand abroad.
India's government-owned reinsurer, the General Insurance Corporation (GIC), intends to increase the...
Le Mans to Miami.
Le Mans Re is to relocate its life business for Latin America and the Caribbean from Le Mans to Miam...
Cunningham Ellis and Buckle centralises
Loss adjuster Cunningham Ellis and Buckle has centralised its home services adjuster field force so t...
New Miller division.
Loss adjuster Miller Pycraft has launched a new division, Miller Pycraft Specialist Investigations. ...
Fire causes substantial loss.
The Specialist Adjusting Team for loss adjusters Cunningham Ellis & Buckle in London were called to ...
ZFS to make 400 jobless.
Nearly 400 UK jobs are to go at Zurich Financial Services after it announced the closure of four off...
Norkom on its way to US after £3m cash injection.
Dublin's Norkom Technologies is to expand in the US on the back of a further equity investment of $3...
Commentary - Cutting out gazumping.
The government's enthusiasm to reform the home-buying process may speed-up the system and reduce the...
The stakes are high for risk managers.
Aeroplane disasters, train crashes and motorway pile-ups are all events that are guaranteed to hit t...
Fund gets hard sell.
The prevailing low interest environment has tempted Royal & Sun Alliance to give its Income Distribu...
Accident alliance.
Accident management specialists Legal Drive Hire and Accident Assistance have formed a strategic all...
Bond's license to save.
The fund management arm of Standard Life, Standard Life investments, is to launch a high-yield bond ...
Go figure.
When modern collectibles and exotic jewellery are lost or stolen, loss adjusters need to turn to specialists who know their pound of carats from a figure worth a pound. Alex Broad reports.