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Insurers could reap rewards from attack on bonds.
The budget may have sounded the death knell for highly personalised bonds, but British insurers coul...
Slade to chair FSA Steering Group.
Former insurance ombudsman Laurie Slade has been appointed as chairman of the newly formed Financial...
No passive smoke without fire.
Do you worry about sitting in a public place inhaling somebody else's smoke? You need not says BA...
CIS to pay out £677m in bonuses.
Life assurance and pension policyholders who are members of the Co-operative Insurance Society will ...
UA hunts for chief.
United Assurance has increased its pensions mis-selling provision following an estimate showing the ...
Indiana tobacco ruling.
An Indiana jury has found several major tobacco firms were not liable in a passive smoking lawsuit b...
Admiral go on line.
A second stage of the £1m contract between Admiral Insurance and NTL Communications has been complet...
Too-low council quotes are business 'suicide'.
Insurance companies fighting over approximately £100m of business from local councils, including new...
Wife 'chutes from hip.
Parachuting from an aeroplane at 12,000 feet sounds a rather risky occupation for the wife of an ins...
L&G profits boost in shareholders funds.
London & Manchester has announced increased profits in shareholders funds held outside the long term...
Shorely not a very good idea.
The offshore life offices are playing a dangerous game as they consider a legal challenge to the Cha...
System choice launch.
Businesses will be able to road test new IT solutions and ideas before making an actual purchase tha...
Calls for ABI to 'thrash out' home protection.
Insurers called for the abolition of household insurance premium tax and for the Association of Brit...
AIG bid to bring EL explosion to a halt.
Work-related injuries are costing insurers fortunes in employers' liability payouts, with the cost o...
Long term policies: 'One day, all insurance will be made this wa
Rarely does the insurance industry witness an innovation that will have a profound and permanent eff...
Baffled by health cover and its terminology.
The UK working population could lose around £5.5bn in wages every week because of "ignorance" accord...
Mother dear, I'll sue you'.
Insurers and the president of the Federation Of Insurance Lawyers, Martin Bruffell, have condemned a...
Tele-tech in CIBC deal.
Tele-tech has agreed a seven year contract with CIBC Insurance to offer the insurer a range of custo...
Blair gets millennium bug warning.
Insurers have warned Prime Minister Tony Blair that the year 2000 problem is potentially the single ...
CAT lapped up by ACE for £430m.
Acquisition hungry ACE has taken over Bermuda-based property catastrophe reinsurer CAT for £430m. ...
Taking the chair.
The first candidate for a joint Eversheds/Post Magazine debate made a robust defence of mega brokers and market forces. Liz Loxton reports.
CU plans Italian job.
Commercial Union has teamed up with Italian mutual bank BPL to expand its life and general insurance...
When managers managed to do too much.
In post-war England, the combination of a return to peacetime conditions and the advent of a radical...
2000 begins to bug Parliament.
Everyone seems to be waking up the the enormous potential of the millennium bug to cause huge damage...