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Board reshuffle at RSA.
The Board of Royal & Sun Alliance has announced sweeping changes to its management structure due to ...
Giant life assurers welcome plans for demutualisation.
The four biggest Canadian mutual life assurance firms have welcomed government publication of long-a...
The great class vanishing act.
Peter Chaffetz and Kathleen Gardner assess the impact of the recent wave of 'vanishing premium' class actions.
Why there is a storm brewing for loss adjusters.
The news that Norwich Union has become the latest insurer to sign up for a sole adjuster agreement o...
Reinsurance to reassess.
Experts have warned the reinsurance industry that it could suffer unless it reassesses its reserving...
A shock to the system.
Nervous shock is a relative newcomer to the British legal system. Ken Cannar highlights the cases that have marked its course through the courts.
After-the-event covers.
After-the-event cover First Legal Indemnity has unveiled a range of 'after-the-event' litigation cos...
Commentary - Ghosts in the legal machine.
A recent World in Action programme which dealt with alleged phantom litigation claims made for alarm...
US push for PartnerRe.
The PartnerRe Group has announced $100m of extra capital for the US subsidiary it acquired when it t...
India to allow foreign stakes.
India's coalition government appears to have come round to the view that foreign companies should be...
A breath of fresh air into the 'stuffy' world of law.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Buyout will trip up regulation.
The acquisition of Sedgwick by J&H Marsh & McLennan comes as little surprise given the hectic consol...
London's first art cafe.
Cappuccino and contemporary art, both are on the menu at London's first art cafe. Situated on the gr...
How CFAs will affect insurers.
The Lord Chancellor has proposed that conditional fee agreements (CFAs) should replace Legal Aid, th...
Free jobless cover.
Berkeley Alexander's Agents now offer clients six months free unemployment cover if they take out a ...
Cendant in fraud scare.
Troubled Cendant, the US direct marketing and franchising group which recently acquired British brea...
Short-term panic - long-term crisis.
The industry faces a severe shortage of able, qualified middle managers and it only has itself to bl...
Veteran easy riders rewarded by Cornhill.
Cornhill is burning rubber to win a bigger share of the motorcycle market. Easy riders are being ...
Breaches of FSA case remains a mystery.
Crack Scotland Yard Fraud detectives are investigating three insurers over alleged breaches of the F...
CAT to stay in quarantine.
The proposed CAT marking scheme for the new Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) could be shelved foll...
Hewitt hits new job running.
The Queen is dead, long live the Queen. I'm afraid that anyone who heaved a sigh of relief at the tr...
Pension reform promised.
Alistair Darling, who took over from Harriet Harman as social security minister in Tony Blair's rece...
Personal injury: doing the sums.
The House of Lords handed down its decision in Wells v Wells on 16 July 1998. From now on, the 3% di...
Bid to keep back money to fix mis-sellings causes Willis profits to
Willis Corroon saw its first half year profits dip for 1998 as it sought to reserve some £25m in the...