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Benchmarked ISAs could increase consumer confusion.
There has been a mixed reaction within the industry following the government's announcement that ISA...
S&P debuts P&I ratings.
Rating agency Standard & Poor's has produced its first set of ratings for P&I (protection and indemn...
ITNET hopes share launch will raise status.
Combined IT and business process management supplier ITNET has released its draft prospectus for its...
Cigarette firms cough up #4bn.
US tobacco giants rolled over and agreed to pay #4bn in damages to a medical insurer and the state o...
Reading resurrected.
The Institute of Actuaries brought history alive last week as part of its 150th anniversary celebrat...
Avon faces six figure loss.
Insurer Avon faces a six figure loss after an explosion at a 15th century cottage at Capton in Somer...
Appointment at Maritime Insurance.
Vincent Emms, ACII, has joined Maritime Insurance as a hull underwriter. He has considerable experie...
Calling time out on time off.
A typical employee calls in sick and is absent from work for eight days a year, costing their compan...
LA law goes lenient.
Californian judges are taking a laid back approach to car insurance dodgers, particularly for first ...
PYV makes an executive decision.
The new PYV Dis-Plus product aims to take the stress out of arranging life cover for already over-wo...
Swedish insurance tax was unjustifiable.
The European Court of Justice held that Swedish tax law which established different tax regimes for ...
The sound of the big bang.
A month after Japan's financial deregulation came into force, Jeremy Golden examines what this far eastern 'Big Bang' means to the land of the rising sun.
Taxman could recover life office overpayments without assessment.
UFI was a life office writing policies which qualified for Life Assurance Premium Relief (LAPR). Bet...
One heel of a shock for women.
Women who wear high heel shoes risk tottering all the way to the rheumatology clinic. Doctors hav...
Why everyone will be a winner at the BIA Awards.
We are on the final leg of the 1998 British Insurance Awards with the publication of the shortlists ...
Pru derserves ad flak.
Some of the Prudential's shareholders were unimpressed by chief executive Peter Davis' appearance as...
Firm in fraud probe says it is con victim.
US insurer Allstate, currently the subject of investigations on suspicion of falsifying reports in a...
Abbey National slashes panel.
In another week of upheaval in the loss adjusting sector one insurer has reduced its adjusting panel...
Announcing another statement.
It is getting difficult to keep up with the barrage of government announcements about the future sha...
Appointment at Kennedys.
Kennedys has promoted four assistant solicitors to partners. Nina Gaston qualified as a solicitor in...
Hard up over impotence.
US insurers are reviewing their position with regard to the anti-impotence pill Viagra because of it...
Key motor law hits major delay.
A legislative logjam has delayed debate on a proposed new European Union directive designed to make ...
Hart has finger on the pulse.
I would like to respond to CILA president Colin Hart's letter (It's been a year to remember, PM, 23 ...
British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association conference.
This year's British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association conference at the Harrogate Intern...