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China suffers from natural disasters
China has been hit by a series of natural disasters that has left the country with an estimated bill...
AIA calls for support for US legal reforms
A senior member of the American Insurance Association (AIA) has called on risk managers to help redu...
WINNERS AND LOSERS: Post Magazine's monthly round-up of job cuts and gains
WINNERS Lloyd's insurer Chaucer says it is to take on the majority of the staff working on Kiln's p...
Motor - Making in-roads
Claims
Penny Black's insurance week
Those cowardly Tory MPs who wrote letters calling for a confidence vote on Iain Duncan Smith without...
Art of the country
Axa Art is preparing to unveil a new set of disaster recovery guidelines for its clients in large co...
Swinton network stalls again
MMA-owned Swinton this week denied that the loss of the head of its commercial broker network Philli...
Claims code delayed for a year
A voluntary code of regulation for the claims management sector will not be in place for a year, acc...
Sold on price?
Customer Care
Asda to sell life insurance in partnership with Scottish Widows
Supermarket chain Asda is to sell life insurance and mortgage life insurance in partnership with Sco...
CJC voices concerns over EL fixed fees and capacity
The Civil Justice Council does not want to expand and extend its work on fixed fees into the employe...
SAP wins Capita tender
Capita Insurance Services' managing director Bill Dye claimed this week that its new SAP technology ...
Claims is suffering deskilling
David Marshall, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said the claims sector was ...
ABI to lobby government over new homes
The Association of British Insurers may soon embark on a new round of government lobbying - this tim...
London market insurers show concern
London market insurers showed concern this week over potential losses resulting from the fires curre...
Chubb's net income for third quarter
Chubb's net income in the third quarter of 2003 was £156m compared to a net loss of £145m in the thi...
A strategic player
Chubb's decision to pull out of the European high net worth market this year was difficult but necessary. Chris Giles, Chubb Europe president and chief executive, instigated the move. Here he tells Jonathan Swift the reasoning behind it and his other…
A collective enterprise
Unions
Star's claim is a lesson to all
The news last week that Cilla Black's £1m insurance claim for a burglary at her Liverpool home had b...
Workplace safety and fire regulations updated
Workplace safety and fire regulations are to be updated to allow employees and employers to claim da...
Belmont International relaunches web-based quotation service
Broker Belmont International has relaunched its web-based quotation service for customers building t...
QBE extends offerings after rebrand
QBE is looking to increase its regional retail broker offering to include specialist lines such as d...
Appointment at MMA Insurance
Intermediary-only insurer MMA Insurance has recruited Stuart Scott to the newly-created role of key ...