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Public unaware of private health costs
The public vastly underestimates the costs of operations, according to a new study by Norwich Union H...
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Hill Dickinson has appointed two senior business development directors. Tony Wilkinson joins the ...
Insurance: jobs on increase.
Employment levels in the insurance sector are expected to rise within the first quarter of 2000, wit...
Experian acquisition right on CUE.
Experian has acquired the UK assets of US-based ChoicePoint Incorporated, which includes ChoicePoint...
Spotlight on health & safety.
Revisions to the health and safety regulations mean that insurers must encourage their customers to take a pro-active approach to managing and assessing related risks.
Exclusive - NatWest Insurance in cost-cutting drive.
NatWest Insurance Services is to be brought under the umbrella of NatWest's Retail Banking Division,...
E-Commerce Watch.
Independent Insurance has revamped its website - www.independent-insurance.co.uk - to broaden its ap...
Exclusive - Syndicate scraps its sales team and plans guarantee
Lloyd's motor syndicate Zenith has axed its sales department of two executives, and is also planning...
Lloyd's publishes new strategy document
Lloyd's has published its second three-year strategy document aimed at strengthening its franchise an...
Willis Commercial Network is doing "extremely well".
Willis is forging ahead with its plan to sign up 60 brokers to its Commercial Network, which it laun...
Up to speed.
New insurers are being attracted to the bus and coach sector by the hardening rates. However, Steve Banner questions how many will be there to stay.
Masterplan members get motor rate-matching.
Masterplan, Policy Master's marketing arm, is offering its members a rate-matching facility for priv...
Going forward together.
Martin Long, chief executive of Churchill Insurance, tells Tim Collison why he wanted to buy NIG and how the broker market company will figure in the group's expansion plans over the coming months.
Broker rating goes online.
In response to the imminent deregulation of the Lloyd's market, an online information service has be...
Thompson Rudd merger.
The Paul Thompson Insurance Group and the Malcolm Rudd Group have merged to form the Thompson Rudd G...
Stuart Alexander purchase.
Stuart Alexander has acquired the UK non-marine business portfolio of Alston Gayler. Barry Cook, Als...
An EL of a class.
Employers' liability insurers are starting to push through significant premium increases. With rising personal injury awards and medical inflation higher than RPI, Graeme Sutton says such rate increases are more than justified.
Market support for BIBA.
The Broker Network and Coversure have joined the British Insurance Brokers' Association in the bigge...
Employee Benefit Trusts - what a relief.
Q: We have heard that Employee Benefit Trusts are very tax efficient. Can you explain what they are, and how they work?
Calculating the value of insurance.
Q: We are restructuring our business and need to value our general insurance operation. How do we go about it?
Appointment at RL Davison.
Lloyd's broker RL Davison has appointed Joe Hantson to its motor fleet administration department. He...
Exclusive - GISC set to go live with no formal empowerment.
The General Insurance Standards Council is likely to go live on a voluntary basis, without any forma...
Lloyd's to axe 1100 jobs.
Lloyd's is to axe 1100 jobs over the next three years as part of chief executive Nick Prettejohn's m...
BIA 2000 - 28 June.
This month sees the initial call for entries for the first British Insurance Awards of the new centu...