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Hitachi Credit Insurance announce profits
Hitachi Credit Insurance Corporation has reported a business volume increase of 37% to £8m with a pre...
Aon goes pan-European with accident management
Aon Motor Accident Management is to set up a pan-Eurpean standardised service to help companies' redu...
News in brief.
Conoco's Killingholme oil refinery in the UK, which was damaged by fire on 16 April, was insured thro...
News in brief.
Sumitomo Marine Re (Europe) has been given a 'AA' (very strong) rating by Standard & Poor's. The whol...
Aviation rates start to rise.
The aviation insurance market made a loss for the fourth consecutive year in 2000, according to Grah...
Chaucer downbeat until 2002
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer has posted a loss before tax of £4.1m for the financial year ended 31 Decembe...
Post Magazine organises Technical Masterclass.
Few areas in recent years have given claims managers as big a headache as subsidence claims. They po...
Prompt axing of Tifco staff.
Premium finance provider Prompt has confirmed that it will axe 40 jobs as a result of running down r...
Penalties unchanged.
Government minister Lord Whitty this week turned down a request to increase penalties given to unins...
Donns' new role.
Manchester-based Donns solicitors has been appointed by West Midlands intermediary Bennetts to opera...
Appointment at Compensation Claims.
Former president of the Insurance Institute of Leeds, Bernard Thornton, has established a new busine...
Appointment at Silver Shield Windscreens.
Silver Shield Windscreens has made several appointments as part of a campaign to target the insuranc...
Appointment at Mondial Assistance.
Nicola Burchell joins Mondial Assistance as marketing manager. Prior to this appointment, Ms Burchel...
Fortis ups anchor on yachts.
Fortis is to cease underwriting yacht and pleasure craft business from 30 June. It will transfer the...
Christianson: mp.
Birmingham-based Shakespeare's Solicitors has chosen the head of its personal injury practice, Gary ...
Enviego: more help.
Lifestyle management service provider Enviego has teamed up with Bupa to offer its clients 24 hour h...
Shoddy label for insurers.
The commercial lines insurance industry was last week branded as inefficient and fragmented at the ...
Rise in motor rates.
Motor insurance has risen by 6.21% over the past three months, according to the latest AA insurance ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Is the CII presidency a poisoned chalice? Penny has been pondering this question over the last few d...
Coming to terms.
Term insurance, enjoying a boost as repayment mortgages grow in popularity, is attracting insurers' attention away from less profitable sectors. Trevor Hemsley reports on the new spin providers are putting on this product.
News in brief.
Independent is to sponsor the Grosvenor House Art and Antique Fair, 13-19 June. Among the pieces on ...
Fortis to pay out claims to victims of Selby rail crash.
Fortis Insurance, which insured the Land Rover that caused the Selby rail disaster, is to pay out cl...
FM Green needs cultivation.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Mean streets?
The country's soaring crime rates mean South Africa's general insurance market is only for the resolute. Despite this, competition is fierce and insurers manage to record an acceptable profit, says Jeremy Golden.