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Alarm sounds over pay-per-blaze firemen.
Claims that fiendish firemen deliberately started blazes and made hoax calls to earn extra cash are ...
Fan horror at party.
In 1993 a Mr Brannan went to Tunisia on an Airtours package holiday. One of the attractions was a...
Who, what, why, when and where?
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Reach the Summit.
Lloyd's fleet motor syndicate, Summit, has sent its brokers a summary of the major changes likely to...
The British Insurance Awards 1999 - Strong support for Awards.
There are six major new sponsors in this year's British Insurance Awards. We asked them to explain why they became involved.
Drawn to fire safety.
Royal & SunAlliance Direct has launched The Fire Safety Poster Competition, developed to fit in with...
More disappointing than disheartening.
As the insurance industry gets ready for the annual reporting season, company chairman will hope the...
New motor unit.
A trio of former Gan board members have teamed up with an American businessman to buy private motor ...
Gun verdict ricochet to hit insurers.
Insurers are bracing themselves for a volley of claims after some American handgun manufacturers wer...
In deep trouble?
Radical change is sweeping through the UK insurance market. Cost saving is the merger mantra, and reinsurers are feeling the effect. Adrian Leonard asks if there is any light at the end of the tunnel.
Grade A for Hiscox.
Hiscox Insurance has been awarded an 'excellent' A-rating by AM Best. The rating agency said: "Th...
Woodgate & Clark sifts through debris.
Loss adjuster Woodgate & Clark is sifting through the debris of a fire which ripped through three bu...
Government is 'failing public'.
The government has been slammed for failing to deal with the problem of falling annuity rates which ...
Crooked IFA gets three years.
An independent financial adviser was jailed for three years last week for stealing £367,000 which he...
Novel way of avoiding the Millennium Bug.
I thought you might find of interest the following extract of an e-mail I have sent to CGU on a comm...
Sponsor may quit Olympics.
The bribery scandal that has engulfed the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City has caused an ...
The name of the game.
Financial services companies are the new stars of track and field sponsorship. Jonathan Guy explains why the sporting life suits them down to the ground.
N&G agreed claim within a month.
A Hampshire boat builder, facing financial disaster following a fire at his yard, was on hand to acc...
EDI debut policy.
Cornhill is celebrating after it received the first commercial policy transmitted through its Gilt E...
Debit credits.
Insurer CGU has claimed one and a half million of its general insurance policyholders paid by direct...
Sting in the bug's tail.
Surely all those compliance forms will protect insurers? Not so says Richard Radevsky, who explains that long after the last bug confuses a computer, insurers will remain exposed to millennium losses.
Insurers' double-act snares £6m conmen.
CGU and Cunningham Ellis & Buckle joined forces to bust a pair of thieves responsible for stealing o...
Arson cases fell in 1997.
The number of arson cases fell in 1997 for the first time in a decade. But the bad news for insurers...
Audatex launches 'AudaWorkstation'.
Computer estimating systems provider Audatex has launched its 'one box' estimating system 'AudaWorks...