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Insurers play key role in climate of change.
The last few weeks have seen climate change, environmental management and the role of the insurance ...
Equitas records hike in asbestos claims.
Equitas, the company established to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior liabilities of Lloyd's N...
PMI role should be highlighted.
The private medical insurance market should be highlighting the NHS's shortcomings according to Haze...
Railtrack urges industry to adopt claims protocol
Railtrack has urged other industries to adopt the railway industry's claims protocol which it said be...
Code: not particularly taxing.
The focus on benchmarking process rather than outcomes in the new Association of British Insurers' c...
MSMS goes to work on an Egg.
Software systems and support company Marlborough Stirling has joined forces with Prudential's intern...
Pru still in running for Equitable Life.
Prudential is understood to be the last remaining bidder for beleaguered Equitable Life after Eureko...
Vehicle repairers cry foul.
Vehicle repairers are putting increasing pressure on the insurance industry to drop alleged anti-com...
Bennetts shake-up.
Newbury-based broker Bennets Insurance plans to expand into travel, pet and other personal lines bus...
Pension bill escalation.
Insurers are facing a further compensation bill of £2.5bn after the Financial Services Authority ann...
Penny Black's insurance week.
While Penny and her colleagues have been yawning in frustration at the endless saga of those dreadfu...
Higher fines for non-insurance.
The government intends to increase the fine for employers who do not take out statutory liability in...
Training rules for brokers outlined
The General Insurance Standards Council has set out its rules on accreditation and monitoring of staf...
GISC to charge networks for monitoring
The General Insurance Standards Council said today that it will review broker networks on a case by c...
Repairers fight insurers over practices
Vehicle repairers are increasing pressure on the insurance industry to drop alleged anti-competitive ...
ABI endorses new mortgage guidelines
The Association of British Insurers has welcomed the release of a consultation paper by the Financial...
Equitas faces increased asbestos claims
Equitas, the company established to reinsure and run off the 1992 and prior liabilities of Lloyd's Na...
PIA disciplines Nat West Bank.
The Nat West Bank was fined £500,000 last week by the Personal Investment Authority, after disciplin...
Polish unrest over PZU sale ruling.
The Polish Court has refused to uphold the government's efforts to cancel the part-sale of insurer P...
Dodd plans to lobby Australian government.
Eric Dodd, chief executive of Australian insurer NRMA, plans to exert pressure on the government to ...
Brown steps down at Markel Syndicate Management
Reg Brown is to give up his position as managing director of Markel Syndicate Management. Mr Brown sa...
Eastern promise.
Switzerland's Winterthur Life has entered into a strategic alliance with Chinese insurer Tai Kang Li...
Eureko founders complete merger
The combination of two of the founding entities of pan-European insurance group Eureko took place tod...
India gives Pru the go-ahead.
UK insurer Prudential has become the fifth insurer to win regulatory approval to set up an insurance...