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Building & Civil Engineering Insurance.
Building & Civil Engineering Insurance, which sells insurance to members of the construction industr...
AMP in watchdog probe
The Australian parent of NPI, Pearl and London Life is set to come under the scruitiny of the Austral...
Wise after the event?
Judgement has finally been passed in the Callery v Gray motor liability case, but many questions rema...
Conveyancing leads PI claims way.
Conveyancing work has been responsible for the highest number of solicitors' professional indemnity ...
NU seeks legal appeal on ATE.
Norwich Union has confirmed that, following legal advice, it is considering seeking leave to appeal ...
Study to help slash tree costs.
Loss adjuster Cunningham Lindsey has teamed up with Zurich Municipal to help slash the cost of claim...
Asbestos compensation delay: old dogs cannot be taught new tricks
The insurance industry is still being bombarded by negative comment with regard to its reaction, or l...
Hill Dickinson in London push.
Law firm Hill Dickinson plans to make a greater push for public sector liability work, as part of a ...
APIL joins call for insurance insolvencies enquiry.
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has joined the clamour calling for a public enquiry to be...
ATE: little hope for peace now.
In light of the almost complete failure by Norwich Union - with the support of the Association of Bri...
Insurers reject compulsory call.
Suggestions that insurers - rather than the government - should pick up the bill for foot and mouth ...
Insurers in the dock.
Martin Cockx, the solicitor who acted for Stephen Callery in the high-profile, after-the-event court case, has no sympathy for the defeated insurers, which, he says, tried to wriggle out of paying the additional liabilities Parliament intended they…
ICS: website launch.
Software developer ICS is launching its new internet browser-based application, e-claims iceCentre, ...
S&P warns on US asbestos risk.
The latest wave of asbestos liability claims has the potential to impact the US commercial lines mar...
Storm damage hits the roof.
I am currently acting on behalf of a policyholder, whose property suffered severe storm damage to th...
Chester St awards delay.
Victims left uncompensated following the collapse of Chester Street are unlikely to be paid until No...
Appointment at Experian.
Experian, the global information solutions company, has taken on Gillian Key-Vice as head of complia...
About face for make-up artist.
Linda McCormack, a consumer affairs spokeswoman for RSA, began her working life as a make-up artist, but as she is keen to tell Jane Bernstein, the insurance industry offers opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds.
NFU rejects insurance call
National Farmers Union chief Ben Gill, speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, has rejected as unw...
ABI refocuses anti-fraud strategy.
Having recently arrived at my new desk, I caught up with your article "Cutting out fraud" (see below)...
Czech mates as Slovenska queue grows.
Czech insurance company Ceska Pojistovna has become the latest insurer to express an interest in the...
Sterilisation blunder costs hospital extra - Parkinson v St James &
(Court of Appeal - 11 April 2001) The claimant conceived her fifth child after undergoing a steril...
See you in court.
With no test case to rely on, the jury was out on surveillance, following the introduction of the Human Rights Act. The watchword is prudence, with solicitors exercising common sense in its use to guarantee video evidence stands up in court, writes David…
Bank's survey builds up structural problems - Frost v James Finlay
(Chancery Division - 25 June 2001) The claimant moved her borrowing to the defendant bank, in orde...