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Plain sailing on web.
Yacht and motor boat insurer Navigators & General has enhanced its website, www.navigatorsandgeneral...
Arson measures lack spark.
The Home Office's long-awaited announcement on measures to tackle arson was a major disappointment t...
Independent Insurance, Ireland.
The manager of Independent Insurance, Ireland, Michael Gaughan outside the company's new headquarter...
Ford drivers' deal.
US motor insurer Hartford is offering discounts and a policy renewal pledge to millions of Ford owne...
State Farm estimates it will receive 32,000 claims after tornadoes in
The tornadoes which ripped through Fort Worth in Texas last week left four dead and over 100 injured...
New room for manoeuvre.
The Broker Network has launched a new underwriting room to help intermediaries build up partnerships...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny hopes the provocative poses she was paid to pull in her youth never find their way onto some t...
Hiscox claims Internet first.
Specialist insurer Hiscox is to launch what it believes is the first specialist high value household...
Mortgages - Mortgage providers step up discount offers.
Two mortgage providers have launched stepped discounted mortgages this week. Wesleyan Home Loans ...
MLG goes into receivership.
Vehicle repairer Motor & Legal Group has been forced into receivership following a decision by inter...
School's out, MVR's in.
The Motor Vehicle Repairers Association is going back to school in a bid to safeguard the future of ...
Healthcare - Allied Dunbar acts to cut NHS waiting lists.
Allied Dunbar has amended the cover of its Lifestyle Plus and Lifestyle critical illness plans to he...
Reality bites for shareholders seeing pound signs.
The City finally seems to be warming to the tie-up of Norwich Union and CGU, with the shares slowly ...
Travel - Playing tag with your valuables.
Columbus Direct Travel Insurance has launched security-tagging for travellers. Its Lifestyle prod...
Home Office sets up Arson Forum.
The Home Office is to set up an new Arson Control Forum chaired by Graham Meldrum, the chief inspect...
MULRA gets Eastgate
Eastgate Assistance has finally joined the Motor Uninsured Loss Recovery Association, a professional ...
Blanch offers Catalyst.
Broker EW Blanch has claimed that its recently launched catastrophe modelling software - Catalyst - ...
Lehman Re completes first quake securitisation.
Bermuda-based Lehman Re has offset nearly $150m of Californian earthquake and resulting fire risk th...
CNA to sell life business.
US insurer CNA has put its life insurance and reinsurance operations up for sale in a move to focus ...
Watson Wyatt opens.
Consultant Watson Wyatt has launched a new insurance practice in Ireland. Michael Murphy, a senior c...
Sale of Brazil's state-owned reinsurer.
Reinsurers hoping for a stake in Brazil's reinsurance market had more than the carnival to celebrate...
Shane's BIIBA role.
Shane Matthews (above), director of Belfast insurance broker Bartholomew & James, has been appointed...
IIB unveils Insureright.
Insureright, the much trumpeted Internet venture from the Institute of Insurance Brokers, was due to...
Investing in FileNET.
Canada Life Ireland has invested £500,000 in Panagon Software's FileNET system, which enables users ...