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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 ...
One of the best insurance sites.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Light-hearted comment provokes angry reaction.
A light-hearted comment by Michael Bright, chairman and chief executive of Independent Insurance, wh...
Johnston elected.
Axa Insurance's Graham Johnston has been elected the new chairman of Insurance Database Services whi...
Classy glass award.
Geoff Thompson (left) of Auto Windscreens accepts the Service Award for Excellence 2000 from Barry S...
Replacement fears top MULRA list.
Concern over the provision of replacement vehicles following non-fault accidents is expected to domi...
Latin America worst region for kidnappings.
Latin America has topped the charts for the ninth year in a row as the world's worst region for kidn...
Folgate puts house in order.
Folgate Insurance is to embark on a major household business expansion drive using pre-selected brok...