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Assessing the damage.
The House of Lords has taken the unprecedented step of fixing the discount rate for multipliers in personal injury cases at 3%. Lyndsey Mackie says this will cause a hike in motor premiums.
Y2K database goes on-line despite limited support.
The Association of British Insurers has gone live with its year 2000 database, despite the poor resp...
AXA - darling of the City diary pages.
Since AXA announced its whopping £41m sponsorship of the FA Cup, the insurer seems to have miraculou...
Sheffield opening.
Richard Bolton Insurance Group, the risk management consultancy and insurance broker, has announced ...
Appointment at Provident Financial.
Several key appointments have been made at Provident Financial. Nick Illingworth has been made manag...
Not such a dog's life.
Specialist animal insurance agency AIMS has developed a pet policy which offers unlimited veterinary...
Cornhill spends £4m on new IT.
Cornhill Insurance has signed up Cover-All Technologies to supply the software, licensing and servic...
A break with tradition.
Professional indemnity insurance is not just for the professions, cover is now being tailored for all manner of different sectors. Steve Banner examines the growing PI market.
Shead brings its policies into line.
Lloyd's syndicate Shead Motor Policies has replaced all of its existing standard private motor polic...
Appointment at Foreman Bassett Insurance Brokers.
Southampton-based Foreman Bassett Insurance Brokers has taken on Richard Burnett (above) in a develo...
FSM launch into health.
Feasey Slot Management has announced the launch of a new company specialising in underwriting accide...
Insurance Investigator.
Catherine Zeta-Jones has recently become embroiled in the world of insurance investigation. The Darl...
David Worsfold.
The 150-page Financial Services and Markets Bill leaves many issues unresolved, not least the gap left by the scrapping of the Policyholders Protection Board.
Foreman snaps up P&G.
Foreman Bassett Insurance Brokers has acquired Stubbington-based Personal & General Insurance Servic...
Churchill says Anglia acquisition is just the start.
Churchill Insurance has pledged to make further acquisitions in the broker sector, following its acq...
CCS gets selective on commercial broking.
Dartford-based, CCS has launched CCS Select, an underwriting service which guarantees quotation resp...
Market says farewell to IBRC.
When the Treasury announced it was abolishing the IBRC the onus was placed on the market to come up with an single, non-statutory alternative. Tim Collison reports on the progress.
New lease of life starts at 40 for Millennium's brokers.
Commercial lines broker Millennium Insurance has opened its 17th franchise office since it started r...
Share options.
Overriders and profit-sharing arrangements have come under close scrutiny in recent months. Jennifer Jarrett asks whether this form of payment is really in the brokers' best interest.
Towergate enlists Crocker.
Nick Crocker has been poached by the Towergate Group from ITT London & Edinburgh to become group ope...
Appointment at Royal & SunAlliance.
Royal & SunAlliance's Healthcare & Assistance Division has made a string of new appointments as part...
Bright ideas.
Although hard to value, intangible assets such as reputation can be vital to a company's success. David Fanning investigates insurers' changing attitudes to the protection of intellectual property.
Appointment at Anchor.
Milton-Keynes-based broker Anchor has appointed Marc Taylor (above) as a an account development exec...
Appointment at Cornhill Insurance.
Cornhill Insurance has appointed Bruce Fertnig as a branch manager at the London branch of Cornhill,...