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Appointment at Commercial Union.
Commercial Union has appointed Cathryn Riley to director of general insurance. She joined CU two ...
Appointment at Hillman Saunders.
Hillman Saunders has appointed two experienced recruitment consultants to its new Croydon operation....
Brokers will fight to retain independence.
Nearly three-quarters of medium to small size commercial brokers have expressed their determination ...
Seeing both sides of the argument.
Having worked in the insurance and recruitment industries, I felt I had to comment on recent letters...
NHM were law report authors.
There was a mix-up over names in our story entitled "Negligence cover shift stirs trouble" which app...
Appointment at Hiscox.
Nick Ward is the new line underwriter of Hiscox Syndicate 33's professional indemnity and directors ...
Blair delivers bug warning to firms.
Prime minister Tony Blair has spoken out over the grave risks British companies face if they ignore ...
Partnerships behind Independent success.
Independent Insurance continued to be the City's insurance darling with another year of increased pr...
Let's not make a meal out of honest hospitality.
I see the hair shirt culture of modern Britain is starting to reach out to the world of corporate ho...
Nationwide Building Society criticises plans.
The Nationwide Building Society has criticised plans by other mortgage lenders to review their requi...
HBC sponsors amateur boxing.
The best of Britain's amateur boxers packed a punch in Birmingham last week at the National Amateur ...
RSA's NZ life deal.
Royal & Sun Alliance has made a successful bid for the life insurance operation of Norwich Union in ...
No win, no fee, still a grey area.
The government's proposal to extend conditional fees into other areas of litigation should not come ...
SCOR's 'quality' year.
SCOR, the French insurer and reinsurer, reported a growth in premiums and profits for 1997, describe...
Pru 'destroyed' paperwork.
Prudential Insurance of America routinely destroyed documents as part of its general business practi...
GAN deal edges closer.
The privatisation of GAN moved a step closer this week when companies interested in bidding for the ...
What the papers say.
THE TIMES An opera student is suing the owners of a theme park after his voice deteriorated throu...
Will conditional fees pay off?
Last week the Lord Chancellor outlined in the House of Lords his plans to phase out legal aid and replace it with a no win, no fee system. Richard Evans looks at the implications for insurers in the legal marketplace.
Maintaining the links.
Doing business by electronic data interchange brings its own hazards. David Morey explains what steps insurance companies can take to keep the links in the supply chain secure.
RSA unveils who's who in after shake-up.
The second stage of the shake-up of senior management at Royal & Sun Alliance following the arrival ...
Photo cover is focus of row.
Insurers behind a policy designed to protect photographers from copyright crimes have not targetted ...
IBM bids to enter £42bn market.
IBM has launched a portfolio of data analysis and marketing applications to try to capture a share o...
Reviving vital pound signs.
Insurers could end up the unseen casualties in emergency rooms around the country if the government succeeds in making them pay the NHS costs of road crash victims. Alan Probert reports.
Agencies must be doing something right.
I write in response to Christopher Lennon's letter ('Why dealing with recruitment agencies can be ve...