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Direct Line sell-off raises bodyshop concern.
Concern has been voiced about the future of the bodyshop industry following Direct Line's decision t...
Breaking the fraud records.
A clampdown by US authorities has uncovered the "most comprehensive insurance fraud yet seen". A bog...
Footman James & Co sponsored.
Specialist vehicle car broker Footman James & Co sponsored the 1999 Parliamentary Classic Car Run on...
Denham gets Nac of brand.
Lloyd's managing agency Denham Syndicate Management has overhauled its branding and image following ...
Schemes trio from Vanguard.
Vanguard Insurance has launched three new schemes for independent brokers and intermediaries. The...
The chairman of the Motor & Legal Group.
The chairman of the Motor & Legal Group Ian Griswold did a Damon Hill last week, crashing out of a r...
Law firm sued by client.
The plaintiff retained a firm of solicitors to act for him between September 1988 and July 1993. ...
Insurers face supermarket sweep.
Traditional insurers are bracing themselves for store wars as retail giants Tesco and Sainsbury's co...
What the papers say.
DAILY MAIL Controversial plans to put an electronic speed cop into cars to stop drivers breaking ...
Fewer direct writers.
The number of direct writers has declined for the first time in five years, according to a new repor...
Picky public yield broker bonanza.
High street brokers are set to cash-in as cynical and mercurial consumers shun commoditised products...
Surface cracks
Richard Surface, chief of Australian company AMP's London-based life and pensions unit Pearl Group, ...
Boating brokers.
Brokers could make policy sales on the back of the National Go Boating Weekend on 26-27 June, an int...
Appointment at Chapman Everatt.
Graeme Middleton has joined the Birmingham office of solicitors Chapman Everatt as a partner. He wil...
Zurich names its partners.
Zurich Financial Services has appointed both Cunningham Ellis & Buckle and McLarens Toplis as prime ...
Anatole Kaletsky delivers opening address.
Economist and Times newspaper commentator Anatole Kaletsky delivered the opening address at PIMS. He...
All systems go.
If interruptions win the day, it could bring an end to your business.
Appointment at Denham Direct.
Denham Direct Underwriters has appointed Simon Lightbody as assistant underwriter. He will be respon...
Staying on track.
The drivers for risk managers are changing both in the US and the UK but still the US leads the way in innovation while some UK managers seem blinkered. David Fanning finds out why.
Gulf between rich man, poor man.
Some 150 years ago this week social exclusion - something that is once again worrying the government...
British insurer CGU to merge.
British insurer CGU is to finally merge Commercial Union (Malaysia) and GA Insurance, two Malaysian ...
Gladiator aims high.
Specialist telebroker Gladiator is moving its 200 staff across Cardiff to Wales' tallest building, C...
Going Dutch?
CGU-owned Dutch insurer Delta Lloyd is in talks with the Dutch life, health and general insurer NUTS...
Customised data.
Royal & Sun Alliance has installed Autograph, Geneva Digital's advanced document composition solutio...