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CMGL takes over management of Syndicate 991
CMGL Syndicate Management (CSML) has become the managing agent of Lloyd's Syndicate 991, A. E. Grant & Others.
Standard Life offers companies HSE help
Standard Life Healthcare has rolled out its online health and wellbeing service to all claims-relate...
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Hardy predicts £180m fraud losses
An alleged fraud at an Italian bank could cost the insurance industry £180m in claims according to L...
Fraud Focus
Would insurer-owned legal firms increase the fraud risk, asks Jamie Taylor. On 15 December last yea...
Aviva still on course to snap up RAC
Aviva has confirmed it is still on course to snap up RAC in late May, after tabling a £1.1bn bid. Th...
What the papers said this week
Daily Mail Teachers claimed a total of £3.2m in compensation last year. Payouts included £40,000 to...
MP attacks the government over uninsured drivers
The Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has hit out at the government ...
Reinvention better than cure
In 1993, I was lucky to be involved in the birth of Corporate Capital at Lloyd's. It was 'do or die'...
No pain, no gain for CIS
News Analysis: CIS Overhaul
Acquisition will reduce motor fraud, claims buyer
UK insurance software house, CDL, has acquired The Vehicle Inspection Company UK Limited, securing a licence to access DVLA data.
Greenberg to retire as Zarb moves in at AIG
Non-executive chairman Maurice Greenberg will formally retire from AIG tomorrow or Thursday and leave the company on 31 March. Frank Zarb will take on the chairman's duties as lead director of AIG's board.
Time to test yourself: A selection of questions from various past-CII qualification papers
Whether you are studying for Chartered Insurance Institute exams or just want to test yourself, see how you do
Fraudster gets five years
Carol Birrell was sentenced to five and a half years in prison at Liverpool Crown Court this week fo...
Appointment at Cunningham Lindsey
Cunningham Lindsey UK's complex loss liability team has recruited Gill Cooke from GAB Robins. Ms Coo...
Appointment at Budget
Kal Samra, previously senior manager at Bennetts, has been promoted to associate director. She joine...
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What the papers said this week
The Guardian Accident and emergency nurses are being offered cash to refer road traffic accident vi...
AA in personal injury drive
The AA is set for an aggressive push into the personal injury market later this year. The news coinc...
Seven-day updates can deliver vision
I am writing with regard to the suggestion that "insurers have abandoned plans for real-time updatin...
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Time to back up the talk
The Association of British Insurers' proposals, announced this month, to halve the time taken by ins...
Appointment at Hiscox
Andrew Cheney has joined the Hiscox team as senior risk management surveyor. He will work within the...