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IFAs to access iE.
Italian insurer Generali has deployed e-business application supplier iE to create a business platfo...
Appointment at Healthy Pets.
Healthy Pets has appointed Rachel Burkill to head its claims department. Ms Burkill has over 10 year...
Omni makes move on PXRE.
Dutch-based insurance services specialist Omni Whittington has acquired Lloyd's managing agency PXRE...
State: job losses after restructure.
New Zealand general insurer State Insurance has announced major restructuring plans. They will resul...
Indie leftovers.
Cornhill's Animal Health Division has confirmed that it has taken over the underwriting of Sussex-ba...
Injury rate blow.
The government's decision to lower the discount rate on damages awards, costing insurers millions of...
Accident-prone.
Of the country's top 10 most accident-prone crossings in the US, more than half are in Texas and the...
GAB in Guernsey.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins opened a new Channel Island office, based in St Peter Port in Guernsey, this...
Cover reaches saturation point.
The last year has seen UK insurers swamped by claims for flood damage. David Fanning urges the government and local authorities to act quickly before insurers and insureds find themselves drowning in impossibly high premiums, poorly restored homes and…
Hiscox gains more ex-Indie staff.
Hiscox has followed the recruitment of the core of Independent's regional underwriting team last wee...
Court rule on ATE.
The Court of Appeal is due to hear submissions on the value of after-the-event insurance premiums to...
PwC at Commons.
The liquidators from PriceWaterhouse Coopers will face the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insuranc...
Forbes goes classic.
Intermediary Alexander Forbes has launched a classic car website, www.classiccarcover.co.uk, which ...
Lloyd's analysis shows disparity.
Lloyd's recent severe losses - estimated to be some £3.3bn for the period 1998-2001 - mask a substan...
RSA considers BTE options.
Royal & Sun Alliance has refuted press speculation that it plans to make before-the-event legal expe...
Generation tech.
This is undeniably the age of the internet, though John Harvie asserts the "next generation" must change the way they utilise it to fulfil its cost reduction potential.
Claims Direct wait.
The independent directors of Claims Direct, David Hickey and David Hankinson, were expecting to rece...
Market on the move.
M-commerce clearly offers great opportunities for reaching a wide insurance-buying audience, by tapping into mobile technology. However, until the text generation comes of age, this potential is unlikely to be realised, says Lynn Rouse.
Appointment at Aon.
Aon has made two appointments. David West joins the international benefits practice as a senior cons...
Judy joins Marsh.
Broker Marsh has continued its push into public sector consulting with the appointment of Judy Jones...
BIB members defect to SMFS
Four members of Darlington broker BIB have defected to rival Smith Mason Financial Services to help s...
RSA idea could change the event.
The suggestion by Royal & Sun Alliance that it could include legal expenses insurance as a standard f...
CGNU: Unicaja deal.
UK insurer CGNU has agreed a bancassurance deal with Spanish savings bank Unicaja to sell life and p...
Time to make your voice heard.
Post Magazine has called on the insurance industry to support moves to establish a Whistleblowers' Ch...