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Appointment at The Leisure Consortium.
Lloyd's-based The Leisure Consortium has taken on Jane Todd as deputy underwriter in the contingency...
CII meets over title.
The Chartered Insurance Institute is to hold a special general meeting on 28 March to invite members...
Law firms merge to create Pinsent Curtis Biddle
Law firms Pinsent Curtis and Biddle are to merge, creating a 157-partner national firm with a combine...
Storms cost RSA £200m
Royal & Sun Alliance has forecast an exceptional fourth quarter loss of up to £200m as a result of t...
Retailer plans insurance move.
Discount clothes store Matalan is considering a move into insurance, although no plans have been for...
Rapidinsure set for relaunch.
Online intermediary Rapidinsure is set to be relaunched by Berkeley Morgan next month after being bo...
Working up to pensions.
The government's new campaign to prompt the public to part with some of their hard-earned cash and use it to secure their future has to be good news, but it also misses a big opportunity. The real gateway to getting contributions into an individual's…
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Don Oakley has returned to Independent Insurance to become manager at its Ireland office in Dublin. ...
Blackmore makes internet drive.
Alfred Blackmore is looking to launch several web-based motor products on its new site www.alfredbla...
Xerox hit by belated Y2K bug.
American Guarantee and Liability Insurance, a subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, has won a cou...
Appointment at QBE.
QBE International Insurance has appointed Paul Moss, formerly chief claims officer at Axa Corporate ...
Dirty work.
Royal & Sun Alliance sacked staff, while law firm Norton Rose accepted an apology: companies are adopting different strategies when dealing with the dissemination of lewd or inappropriate e-mails. Jane Ashton explains how the law is also split.
Barclays: next stop general.
Barclays Bank has refused to rule out the possibility of rebranding its general insurance operations...
Lloyd's launches new subsidiary.
This week, Lloyd's launched a new Canadian subsidiary Lloyd's Canada, as part of plans to expand its...
Arrows follows ABI.
Accident management company 3 Arrows has joined the Association of British Insurer's scheme for the ...
Online competition winner.
Stuart Tizick, senior product manager at Coventry Building Society will be receiving a case of 12 bo...
Phone a friend?
The WAP phone phenomenon was one of the biggest non-events of the e-commerce year, and many insurers are dubious as to its value as a suitable channel for selling products in the long-term. Dom Pancucci explains why WAP is, for the moment anyway, the…
Insurer cross-examined over exclusion
Insurer CGNU is set to meet the management at car manufactuer MG Rover over its policy of refusing mo...
Appointment at Omega Underwriting Agents.
Omega Underwriting Agents has appointed Nick Leighton to underwrite a professional indemnity book of...
Brain damage claim challenged.
Provident Insurance's decision to challenge a liability claim from the parents of a 12-year-old cycl...
A call to arms.
Paymaster has secured the contract for the administration and payment of the Armed Forces retired pa...
Mortgage matters.
The Financial Services Consumer Panel's response to the Financial Service Authority's first consulta...
Unisys sets up insurance outsourcing unit
Abbey Life has awarded a £190m contract to Unisys for the processing and management of its 1.5 millio...
Insurers can be in no doubt on legal duties.
I hope the legal and insurance professions will both accept the recent statement made by David Lock,...