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Salvage Association seeks change.
The Salvage Association will have to go to the Privy Council to seek changes to its charter and rule...
US boost for Munich Re.
The world's largest reinsurer, Munich Re, saw profits soar by 65% to more than DM 1.1bn ($600m) in 1...
Living on the edge of the Asian danger zone.
Australia's insurance industry remains relatively healthy, despite the proximity of the Asian financial crisis. Jeremy Golden reports.
Mexican cash waves.
Premiums for pension and retirement funds in Mexico rose by 26% in the first half of 1998 and motor ...
Smashing idea.
Autoglass has come up with a product to stop motorists becoming unstuck after their windscreens have...
Brokers ready for fight.
Lloyd's largest motor insurance syndicate has called on its brokers to hit back following Barclay's ...
Appointment at Jacksons Solicitors.
Jacksons Solicitors has promoted partner Chris Gannon to the company's management board. A partner f...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance.
Following its purchase of the business operations of Wellington Personal Insurance, Chubb Insurance ...
Weekend trouble.
Figures just released by Munters Control Services show that home owners are most at risk from floods...
Replacing the waiting.
As insurers strive to keep customers, they have started to see the benefits of claims replacement. Instead of being offered a cheque, customers are now getting hassle-free product replacement. Jonathan Swift investigates.
Forte's £120k RAC deal.
Forte Software has announced Australian insurer RAC Insurance has selected its Application Environme...
Salvage dealers back trade body.
The leading independent salvage dealers have put aside their differences to endorse a new trade body...
Industry must stand up to government bullying.
If the insurance industry believed that its problems with the government were confined simply to the...
Changes at MULRA bring about mood of co-operation.
The Motoring Uninsured Loss Recoveries Association (MULRA) has announced plans to co-operate more ac...
Rights for divorcees.
Sedgwick Noble Lowndes retirement policy director Richard Malone has called for the government to he...
Exclusive - Hiscox puts system to millennium test.
Hiscox has successfully completed a pilot test of its systems that are used to trade electronically ...
AA hits back at reports of trade falling off.
AA insurance has stressed that its closure of 142 shops has nothing to do with dwindling trade. A...
Building sire raided.
More than 20 police officers and five-plant investigators raided a construction site in Scotland ove...
Insurers count clost of blaze that gutted Army homes.
Crawford-THg is handling all 29 losses as a result of brush fires which swept through the officers' ...
CIA Medianwork wins battle.
Advertising agency CIA Medianwork has won an £8m battle with the media agency which handled General ...
Scheme attempts to boost broker business.
Lombard General Insurance has launched a scheme to help its supporting brokers and intermediaries ge...
Where premium rates will be taboo.
On 14 September delegates from around the world will gather in Lisbon for the annual Conference of I...
Figures search for the meaning of life.
Number of life office sales people has dropped by more than half since 1992.
Adam puts his foot down in driving rain.
Despite dramatically spinning off into gravel on a dangerously rain-soaked Silverstone track, the Ev...