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A question of IT.
Q: We have a growing composite business and are spending more and more money on IT. We are wondering if we should take on a full-time IT manager? Can you give us any advice about the sort of person we should be looking for?
Cigna covers staff overseas.
Cigna International has launched a new International Employee Healthcare Plan, designed to help comp...
BIBA in IBM solutions talks.
The British Insurance Brokers Association is in talks with IBM regarding the creation of an IT solut...
RE Brown: new cover for company liability.
Lloyd's underwriter, RE Brown & Others has launched a new company liability policy providing cover o...
Berkeley Alexander relaunches safetyFIRST
Berkeley Alexander has relaunched its premier mortgage payment protection insurance policy safetyFIRS...
Amlin merges Summit and Drysdales
Lloyd's group Amlin, formed out of the merger of Angerstein Underwriting and Murray Lawrence, has set...
Consumers unaware of loaded loans
The Datamonitor UK Personal Lending 2000 report has highlighted that lenders are charging over a thir...
Insurers are unprepared for EMU
Insurers are reluctant to make significant investment in preparations for the UK entry to Economic an...
Broker Direct gives away cars
Broker Direct is giving away a Rover 25 1.4iL car worth £11 995, every three months for the next 12 m...
Injury awards could double in size
Personal injury awards are set to increase by 50-100% following recommendations made by The Law Commi...
Brokers flock to IIB Internet launch
Following a direct mail campaign by the Institute of Insurance Brokers, over 200 brokers have reserve...
Stuart Alexander buys Non-marine Portfolio
Stuart Alexander has acquired the UK non-marine business portfolio of Alston Gayler. Barry Cook, Al...
Anada takes on new member
Anada, the West Country brokers association, has recruited Parkins Scutt & Partners of Chippenham as ...
CSC pushes ahead with Polaris
CSC is to complete the roll-out of Polaris to its Quotel user base by the end of February. The softwa...
Helphire buys stake in Net company
Helphire has acquired a 13.33% shareholding in Internet and software development company Intracus for...
Budget wins business award
Budget Insurance Services has been voted Greater Peterborough's Business of the Year for 1999. The ...
Coface buys credit management company
Credit insurer Coface LBF has acquired Cimco and its sister company The Creditors Group. The companie...
Insurers to take on more staff
Employment levels in the insurance sector are expected to rise within the first quarter of 2000, with...
Clinicare reacts to Tory plans to Tax PMI providers
Clinicare has reacted angrily to Tory party proposals which advocate the taxation of private medical ...
Broker warns on pollution liability
Carlyle Insurance Brokers is warning businesses of the potential costs which they may incur following...
RSA takeover rumours grow
Rumours are continuing to circulate that Zurich Financial Services is preparing a £7bn offer for Roya...
CGU launches One-Stop-Shop Engineering Operation
CGU Engineering has launched a one-stop-shop service from its Glasgow office, which is designed to ca...
GE Financial beats Bishopsgate in bid for Lunn Poly Contract
Bishopsgate Insurance has lost out to GE Financial Insurance (GEFI), in its bid to remain as Lunn Pol...
Hanover Park expands
The Hanover Park Group has bought Glenburn Insurance Brokers, adding to the company's list of recent ...