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Marine helps boost Lloyd's.
Marine business has had the major hand in the Lloyd's market, which is expected to declare a profit ...
Firms hope to go places with policies.
Two travel insurers have launched new products. BUPA Travelcover has unveiled its Europe-only annu...
TOAD team up.
Insurer Touchline has teamed up with car security specialists TOAD Innovations, to advise car owners...
Swiss do Pole jump.
Swiss insurer Helvetia Patria Versiderungen has said it is to take a 20% stake in Polish general ins...
Government heading for showdown with health industry.
A row is brewing between the US government and the country's health insurers and healthcare companie...
Profits fall due to 'one-off charges'.
BAT Industries, owner of Eagle Star and Allied Dunbar, has had a drop in pre-tax profits and earning...
IPT hike: penalty on the prudent.
Tony Baker, the deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers, has slammed as doubl...
Homing in on property.
Gan Insurance has increased discounts available for terraced houses from 5% to 10% and reduced prope...
Insurance Charities Day.
Blackadder may not be renowned for his charity to Baldrick but Cunningham's Tony O'Reilly took a dif...
Sutherland puts training into AITT.
I had a chance to catch up with Hugh Sutherland of London Guildhall University the other day and hea...
Repairers on call.
Households will have access to the first national 24-hour call-out home repair and improvement servi...
Company fuel prices.
Fleet insurers may suffer as a result of Gordon Brown's decision to raise company fuel prices and Na...
Insurance Premium Tax for travel insurance increase.
Chancellor Gordon Brown left the devil in the detail as he put up the rate of Insurance Premium Tax ...
The cost of pensions clean-up.
The second phase of pensions mis-selling reviews is set to take up much more time and money than anyone at first believed. Alex Miller asks if this 'colossal task' will be enough to keep the industry from another scandal.
Adjusting back-up deal.
Collegiate Insurance Brokers and Equity Claims Management, a network of chartered loss adjusters, ha...
Caution greets Derbyshire inquiry.
Marine insurers reacted with caution to the government's decision to re-open the inquiry into the lo...
New bill sparks fears from financial experts.
Insurers, banks and securities firms in the United States may be allowed to form financial holding c...
Swissline's £1m deal.
Swissline, Winterthur Insurance's direct sales operation based near Zurich, has signed a contract fo...
NU targets small firms for big business.
Norwich Union is targeting small businesses in its latest drive to become a leading provider of busi...
Guardian Insurance celebrates.
Guardian Insurance celebrated the completion of the four year refurbishment of its head offices in I...
Northern Star on panel.
Northern Star has become the eleventh insurer to join the Gilt Edge Panel, Quotel's comparative quot...
New rules for fees.
New regulations for insurance fees were announced this week by the Treasury. The fees are meant t...
Great Jersey robbery.
Jersey was hit by one of the largest robberies in recent years, when thieves systematically raided t...
Lloyd's to collect Names' debts.
Lloyd's has won a crucial court judgement which will enable it to recover debts from Names who refus...