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London crash has echoes of Southall
Loss adjusters rushed to the scene of this morning's railcrash in London in which at least eight peop...
Motor insurance losses hit £1.6bn high
Motor insurance losses in the UK reached a record £1.6bn last year, a result even worse than market e...
Insurers monitor nuclear fallout in Japan
The Japan Atomic Energy Insurance Pool, set up by casualty insurers to manage nuclear insurance polic...
Scor points finger at p&c.
French reinsurance group Scor has blamed the poor state of the property and casualty market for a 32...
Bulletproof cover.
In unstable areas, commercial markets are offering cover where state-run schemes fall short. Adrian Leonard reports.
Africa for Kiln.
Lloyd's underwriter Kiln has set up a South African subsidiary in Johannesburg, reinforcing its 35-y...
Erratum: Standard & Poor's.
Five companies were omitted from Standard & Poor's ranking of 1998's top 125 companies in the August...
Safer earthquake-proof buildings.
New research by engineers from the University of Cambridge could lead to the construction of safer, ...
Appointment at Navigators & General.
Rod Daniel has been made director of yacht and motor boat insurer Navigators & General. His appointm...
Co-op premium cut.
The Co-operative Insurance Society has announced that for the fifth successive year it is cutting ho...
Free online quotes.
Cardiff-based Composite Legal Expenses has launched a new free PC-based online insurance quotation s...
Wrangle over compulsory purchase cash.
A freehold owner and occupier of a property in Liverpool lived in part of his premises and let the r...
Pay day for New Year staff.
Insurers are keeping tight-lipped on the subject of staffing levels over the 2000 date change, despi...
Appointment at Putsmans Solicitors.
Personal injury specialist Goff O'Dowd has joined Putsmans Solicitors. Mr O'Dowd, who is a Chartered...
ABI forced to delay test code.
The Association of British Insurers has been forced to delay the pilot test run of its proposed clai...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny has nothing but praise for those organisations who go out of their way to take pity on the ran...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Paulina Wicks has been made manager of claims operations at Iron Trades Middlesbrough office. Her pr...
IFAs off target.
Independent financial advisers are failing to exploit the full potential of the offshore market acco...
Appointment at CGU.
David Lamb has been appointed as head of agriculture at CGU and as such will head-up FarmWeb, the fa...
More Room in City.
Room Underwriting Systems, which supplies software to Lloyd's and the London market, has opened new ...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical Insurance.
Simon Willcock has been made branch manager of Ecclesiastical's Birmingham office. He moves to the M...
What the Papers Say.
THE EXPRESS Life at the top is not always so fine and dandy. Witness the example of Tony Ball, th...
IBM's £147m deal.
Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance in Japan has signed a $235m (£147m), 10-year outsourcing contract w...
Cheeky name.
A City broker has called its new travel policy for insurance personnel IPT - Insurance Personnel Tra...