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St Paul to keep UK arm.
UK-based non-life insurer and reinsurer Unionamerica will continue to operate as a stand-alone opera...
ABI launch whiplash campaign
The Association of British Insurers has launched a campaign to halve the £1bn insurance bill caused b...
Claim tips off cops.
An insurance fraud arising out of an alleged seizure by pirates of a £2m yacht involved in a drug de...
Beep, beep benefit.
Road Runner, the specialist motor trade insurer, has included an additional benefit under its road r...
Ockham on highway out of Lloyd's
Ockham has been granted permission to establish a Financial Services Authority regulated motor insura...
Affirmative, it's a negative.
Four Lloyd's syndicates have been given a negative outlook in rating agency Moody's latest appraisal...
Motor book to be scrapped?
Iron Trades' motor business could be under threat following its acquisition by Australian insurer QB...
Not a Clare in the world.
A Norwich Union worker is set to leave the company after becoming the first UK quiz contestant in br...
Insurers advised to take a bite of dental market.
The market for dental care has massive potential for private medical insurers as the availability of...
How low in Ohio?
Drivers in Ohio are having their premiums calculated on how many miles they drive and when they driv...
Cox launches yet another Internet service
Cox Insurance has launched its own e-commerce site - www.insure.co.uk following on from its recent jo...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL The US is to take its own gun companies to court in an attempt to make them pay for th...
Watching to win.
Pharon Insurance Brokers has become the first brokerage to win an award from the National Neighbourh...
Don't get your vicars in a twist over crime.
Every parish church should appoint a security co-ordinator, says Congregational & General Insurance....
Crowe Insurance supports women's rugby club.
Solihull-based Crowe Insurance has supported its local hooker by signing up as sponsor for Mosely Wo...
Zenith establishes new motor syndicate.
Zenith Motor Insurance has set up a motor syndicate at Lloyd's following its September management bu...
Caerphilly headquarters for National Britannia.
Rhodri Morgan, Economic Development Secretary of the National Assembly for Wales, opened environment...
Packing a sucker punch.
Paul Redfern explains why insurers should beware of a pilot scheme for a mortgage seller's pack.
A disastrous year.
We may not yet have witnessed the four horsemen of the apocalypse, but natural disasters in 1999 hav...
Drive by Compass.
Lloyd's consortium manager Compass Underwriting has launched a special insurance scheme, developed t...
Public is ignorant of Y2K cover.
Consumers have been left in the dark regarding any exposure to Y2K liabilites. According to a sur...
X-citing choice.
Xelector, the European online marketplace for financial services, has chosen systems provider and in...
JLT chooses T&CA.
It's a deal. Chris Caine, managing director of broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risk, shakes ...
Going somewhere?
This year has seen much debate over long term care, but has it actually offered any benefits for the elderly or those who provide the sector's products? Andrew Chapman looks back on 12 months of talk.