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Government is 'failing public'.
The government has been slammed for failing to deal with the problem of falling annuity rates which ...
Crooked IFA gets three years.
An independent financial adviser was jailed for three years last week for stealing £367,000 which he...
Novel way of avoiding the Millennium Bug.
I thought you might find of interest the following extract of an e-mail I have sent to CGU on a comm...
Sponsor may quit Olympics.
The bribery scandal that has engulfed the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City has caused an ...
The name of the game.
Financial services companies are the new stars of track and field sponsorship. Jonathan Guy explains why the sporting life suits them down to the ground.
N&G agreed claim within a month.
A Hampshire boat builder, facing financial disaster following a fire at his yard, was on hand to acc...
EDI debut policy.
Cornhill is celebrating after it received the first commercial policy transmitted through its Gilt E...
Debit credits.
Insurer CGU has claimed one and a half million of its general insurance policyholders paid by direct...
Sting in the bug's tail.
Surely all those compliance forms will protect insurers? Not so says Richard Radevsky, who explains that long after the last bug confuses a computer, insurers will remain exposed to millennium losses.
Insurers' double-act snares £6m conmen.
CGU and Cunningham Ellis & Buckle joined forces to bust a pair of thieves responsible for stealing o...
Arson cases fell in 1997.
The number of arson cases fell in 1997 for the first time in a decade. But the bad news for insurers...
Audatex launches 'AudaWorkstation'.
Computer estimating systems provider Audatex has launched its 'one box' estimating system 'AudaWorks...
Broker makes its mark with tattooist cover.
A West Country broker has drawn up a policy to protect tattooists and body piercers sued by disgrunt...
Adjuster optimistic about 'quake damage.
International loss adjuster Crawford THG has said that despite January's earthquake, it believes bus...
Colonnade out to buy.
Colonnade Insurance has outlined its commitment to high street broking with the announcement that it...
Some good can come of PIA row.
Regulators and the government are on a collision course over social exclusion. On the one hand, Trea...
US insurers fined.
Two American insurers have been fined $250,000 (£155m) by the State Insurance Department. Metropolit...
Exclusive - Dirty cash is rife in insurance.
Insurers have been urged to step up their battle to crack down on the millions of pounds which it is...
Not bad but not that good either.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Big in Japan.
Japan is on a deregulation fast-track and this has opened the doors to foreign brokers. But how quick have insurers been to take advantage of the country's eastern promise. Jeremy Golden finds out.
Hitting back at fine art thieves.
Insurers have been warned the police are losing the battle in their attempts to crack down on fine a...
Exclusive - Keep pace or go under.
A leading assistance company has warned that contractors which fail to get to grips with new technol...
Appointment at James Chapman & Co.
Specialist personal injury solicitor Stephanie Tighe has been made a partner with Manchester law fir...
Pearl extends sponsorship.
Pearl has extended its sponsorship of British-based Formula One team Jordan for another two years fo...