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What the papers say.
DAILY EXPRESS Grip has cashed in on the latest panic sweeping Britain, after claiming to have sol...
Free mobile phone.
Commercial Union is giving away a free mobile phone to tradesmen who take out its Enterprise policy ...
A hot topic for a quarter of a century.
How long has the insurance industry been discussing European Monetary Union? Five years? Ten years? ...
Avon Insurance star prize.
Winning the Avon Insurance end of season star prize of seeing QPR v Wolves from the comfort of an ex...
Mis-selling warning.
Consultants Bacon & Woodrow has warned with-profit policyholders, independent financial advisers and...
Over half financial services firms look on the bright side.
Over half of financial service companies (53%) have reported a renewed business confidence, fuelled ...
President Clinton to sue.
President Clinton is to sue State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Chubb Group subsidiary Pacifi...
Fleet crisis forces hike in premiums.
The continuing squeeze in the fleet market is forcing insurers to increase premium prices in an atte...
Barking up the right tree.
In deciding whether the keeper of an animal is liable for any injury or damage it has caused, courts...
MShow goes distance.
Darome Teleconferencing, the UK subsidiary of the Genesys SA, has announced the launch of M.Show, a ...
Freak flooding fails to sink good name of insurers.
The insurance industry seems to have taken the flooding in the Midlands in its stride, judging by th...
New loss adjuster eyes up partners.
Former Thomas Howell Group chairman and chief executive John Stitch, and former Ellis & Buckle chief...
A word of thanks.
May I through your letters column express my deepest appriciation for the generosity shown to me at ...
Missing the point of assessors.
I read with interest Alan Wiseman's contribution to the letters page (PM, 2 April, p16), regarding a...
Record BIA entries pour in.
As the doors closed for entries to the 1998 British Insurance Awards last Thursday evening it was al...
NU cuts rates for life and illness.
Norwich Union has slashed selected life and critical illness rates in its Mortgage Security Plus pla...
Irish share windfall.
Irish building society First National is expected to distribute around 450 shares, worth around £100...
Let's swot bug bank holiday on the head.
Following my comments a few weeks ago about the demand by MP David Atkinson that 31 December 1999 be...
Sun Life tastes Chile.
Canada based Sun Life Assurance has finally warmed to the Chilean markets and entered the private pe...
Agile Insurer: a flexible friend.
The UK's first tailored customer information system for insurers has been launched by Sequent. 'The ...
Beware of someone-to-blame mentality.
Association of British Insurers' director general Mark Boleat told the conference that risk managers...
In poor health.
What is ailing private medical insurance? Keith Sankey investigates its failure to sell since the recession and looks into its precarious relationship with the National Health Service.
Guardian Royal Exchange to sponsor RAC Classic.
Guardian Royal Exchange group executive director Ray Pierce will be driving in this year's RAC class...
Don't panic over 2000'.
A "don't panic" proclamation has come from Francis Loheac, the general secretary of the 29 member Eu...