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NFU sales team joins Towergate
Towergate Risk Solutions has recruited four sales executives to its Glasgow business.
QBE and Mitsui join Met plant theft fight
Insurers QBE, Northern Marine Underwriters and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance have become the latest insurance partners of the Metropolitan Police Plant and Agricultural National Intelligence Unit.
NFU Mutual adds Leech to the board
Ian Leech has been appointed sales & agency director of NFU Mutual and has also joined the main board of the group.
Top 100 Insurers 2010: Navigating choppy waters
This year's top 100 rankings show the major players dropping anchor in stormy seas, while smaller groups make waves of their own with significant jumps in GWP. Jonathan Swift examines the statistics.
Long chase for true Brit
Little more than a month ago I mused on the vacant position of UK chief executive at Brit Insurance, as the insurer looked to replace Peter Burrows.
Rival insurers support Aviva composite stance
A host of fellow composites have backed Aviva in its war of words with RSA over whether the model's days are indeed numbered.
British Insurance Awards 2010: Life in the fast lane
Wesleyan Assurance Society’s long history has not prevented the insurer from reviewing its offerings and launching innovative new products, writes Mairi MacDonald.
British Insurance Awards 2010: Remarkable rise
Keeley Goding’s meteoric rise to lead Hiscox’s technical claims team is underpinned by a maturity beyond her years that has seen the quality of work by the department go from strength-to-strength, writes Leigh Jackson.
Rehab providers urged to tackle 'therapy drift'
Rehabilitation providers must become more commercial and proportionate in their dealings with injured claimants to prevent "therapy drift" and inflated costs for insurance purchasers.
Rivals set to vie for Halliwells business
Law firm Hill Dickinson is understood to be considering buying the assets of rival Halliwells.
Evans is new insurance parliamentary group chair
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services, for which Post provides the secretarait, elected former trade minister Jonathan Evans as its new chairman at a meeting in the House of Commons last night.
Career development & CSR news: M&S and NFU top customer service awards
Consumer Intelligence has launched an awards event for the motor and home insurance sectors aimed at improving the customer offering.
Rising Star shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Post Claims Club Rising Star Awards 2010 has now been announced.
Libs to give mutuals dedicated minister and create local stock exchanges
In order to sustain jobs and promote growth, the Liberal Democrats today said it planned to set up an Infrastructure Bank to direct private finance to essential projects such as new rail services and green energy, building the environmentally sustainable…
Ex-SSP director joins Target Harlosh
Insurance software solutions provider Target Harlosh has appointed Mark Mullin as head of insurance services, to spearhead the company’s expansion plans in the UK and across Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific.
Defaqto: 8% of policies not offering car replacement cover
Almost one in ten car insurance policies do not over new car replacement cover, research from Defaqto has shown
Nine in ten customers “satisfied” with motor claims service
Almost 90% of claimants are satisfied with their motor insurance claims service, new research has revealed.
NFU sees future in hybrid car insurance
NFU Mutual has been appointed by Mitsubishi as its approved underwriter for its new line in electric cars, i-MiEVs.
The mutual way
Rachel Gordon examines whether mutuals have been able to make hay while their public company counterparts struggle, and if the model is set for resurgence in the public sector.
Claims Club Annual Conference
Video interviews with leading insurance industry claims managers from last week's Claims Club Annual Conference.
Top 100 UK Insurers - Top 15 general insurance groups
Post Magazine's Top 15 UK general insurance groups 2008.
Plant thieves get 10 years after TER sting
Swoop: the stolen equipment was being sold on Ebay
High steaks - foot and mouth
The foot-and-mouth crisis in 2007 cost dairy farmers and related industries millions of pounds, but the fallout from claims against the government continue to rumble on, writes Stuart White.
A mutual understanding
Lindsay Sinclair