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Broker plans outlet blitz.
A Shropshire broker has promised to open 50 new insurance outlets in under a year. Millennium Ins...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Poor old Royal & Sun Alliance. Under performing shares and a lacklustre response from analysts follo...
Genetic claims 'exaggerated'.
The government has branded claims that insurers are to be allowed to test applicants for genetic dis...
New managers.
Knowledge management specialist PMPL has merged with software company Cedar Group to form Cedar PMPL...
Virtual rush for Net profits.
Axa-owned Sun Life and Provincial Holdings is to announce a major technology investment in its life ...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has made four key appointments to its new team in Ireland. Neil McSherry has b...
The analysts' views.
Standard Life has a fight on its hands to repel the forces of demutualisation, according to analysts...
Standard Life circles wagons.
Post Magazine analyses the implications of carpetbagger Fred Woollard's bid to force the management of Standard Life into demutualisation.
Fugitive broker extradited.
An Irish broker who fled to England after his business collapsed has been extradited back to his hom...
PPP's online care advice.
PPP Lifetime Care is to launch a detailed website providing independent financial advisers with info...
Exclusive - A clean sheet by Eurobase.
Software supplier Eurobase has launched a new document management solution for the insurance sector....
Appointment at Dataview Solutions.
Spencer Chainey has been appointed as manager of Dataview Solutions' government business division. H...
What the Papers Say.
SUNDAY EXPRESS A teenager who claims she was driven out of school by racist bullying is suing a c...
Bland takes over.
Philip Bland, chairman of Leicester-based broker Bland Bankart, is to chair the national insurance b...
A landmark case.
Michael Wells profiles the technicalities of a recent court case that should interest all reinsurers.
Groupama sows seeds to grow broker panel.
Groupama Insurances is to grow its commercial insurance panel by up to 100 brokers. The company, ...
The key is in the detail.
Everyone agrees that insurers need to create innovative products, but what does this mean in practice? Rob Page believes there are many misapprehensions.
CGU ups stakes in bancassurance.
New deals could present CGU with a potential nine-million strong customer base almost overnight. ...
Tony Boorman to be new Insurance Ombudsman.
Tony Boorman is to be the new Insurance Ombudsman as part of the arrangements for the Financial Serv...
Question marks over LIA/IFP deal.
The deal between the Life Insurance Association and the Institute of Financial Planning is hanging i...
Wired for global data.
Wire, the provider of Internet data on reinsurance markets, last week launched an updated version of...
Appointment at DBS Group.
Two new appointments have been made by the DBS Group, which provides a range of management and finan...
Investigation following collision.
An investigation is underway following the bizarre collision between cargo ship Dole America and a P...
Trio named as target buys.
Top reinsurers Bermudian groups Ace and XL Capital and French reinsurer Scor are targets for acquisi...