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GRE sale will put 5000 jobs at risk.
Up to 5000 jobs could go if Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) succeeds in its £3.5bn bid for Guardian Royal...
BIB Underwriters offers a green fingered hand.
Darlington based BIB Underwriters has offered a green fingered hand to assist horticultural retailer...
Direct Line pulls plug on network.
Direct Line's bodyshop repair centre network experiment has failed. Two proposed sites are now no...
Earning for learning.
More young people are opting for higher education, but they face tuition fees and loan repayments. Keith Sankey looks at the opportunities for insurers.
Au revoir to Tellit.
Royal & Sun Alliance has sold its French direct operation, Tellit Assurances, to CGU for £7m. CGU bo...
Wrestling for business.
As competition hots up, household insurers are including extra cover to make their products more appealing. Jonathan Swift looks at how the market is trying to weather the storm to protect its premiums.
Clinton fired up for tobacco war.
US President Bill Clinton used the annual State of the Union address to outline a radical reform of ...
NHS road Bill motors ahead.
A last ditch bid to block the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill in the House of Commons failed last we...
Axa flexes its pensions muscles.
Axa Sun Life hopes to strengthen its position in the IFA market with the launch of a flexible pensio...
Rebus advances with Proinsure.
Rebus Group, the business information systems provider, last week launched a new division to help it...
Refugees blamed for boom in car fraud.
The Irish motor market has seen a 30% increase in accident claims and insiders are blaming the influ...
How chiefs can beat the cowboys.
I read with interest and applaud Simon Threadgold's article on the engineering market (Looking for i...
Racism allegation.
Over 600 motor insurers which operate in Louisiana in the US have been accused of racial discriminat...
Nationwide nets football super-deal.
Nationwide has become the biggest sponsor of football in Britain after it clinched a multi million p...
Brunel's frustration with 'bad boy' label.
Northwest London-based broker Brunel Insurance has revealed its frustration at being labelled "bad b...
Third time out for thieves.
The insurance industry has welcomed the government's latest two-pronged offensive against domestic b...
Keeping Mum in court.
A six-year-old child is suing his mother in the Canadian courts for mental and physical injuries sus...
Insurers accused of ignoring low income people.
The Office of Fair Trading has slammed the insurance industry for ignoring the needy in favour of th...
New business up 60%.
The Bank of Ireland-owned Lifetime Assurance has recorded strong growth in 1998 with a 60% rise in n...
CGU divorces product duplication to go single.
CGU IS set to go solo next Monday when it unveils its single product range for new business. The ...
Saint fails to save sinners from jail.
Three directors of a Hampshire insurance broker which went bust in 1993 have been jailed at Winchest...
A thorough cheque-up.
Most insurers will replace a lost or stolen everyday household item, but as Steve Banner finds out, the rules change when a claim is received for something more out of the ordinary.
Home is where the work is.
Home-based insurance teleworking is becoming a reality. Barry Jones explains how it should work.
Guardian kicks off red card scheme for brokers.
Guardian Insurance has launched an initiative aimed at blitzing underperforming brokers in its priva...