All Archive articles – Page 1210
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Fitting in
Over the past five years, the loss adjusting industry has undergone huge consolidation. Gone are the golden times of the eighties. Firms are now lean and mean and engaged in a hard struggle to maintain their footing. Paddy Gourlay outlines how matters stand.
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Fighting the fraudsters
Insurance fraud costs huge sums of money every year. Yet this seems to be a crime which few people outside the industry take seriously. In the face of chronic under-funding of police forces, the insurance industry must itself do more to solve the problem. Christine Seib reports
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Exclusion zone
The insurance ombudsman hates exclusion clauses, especially those hidden deep in the small print. Insurers claim they are necessary. Chris Wheal looks at the arguments.
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Watching the detectives
The fear that the implementation of the Human Rights Act would end in a high profile court case has made insurers wary of continuing to use surveillance to uncover fraud. But, as Christine Seib argues, the outlook may not be so bleak after all.
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Keep going in a crisis
After the fuel crisis, the rail crisis and the flood crisis, you would think that businesses would be making Continuity Planning a priority. Not so, says Simon Grace.
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Cracking up
Are the British obsessed by cracks in their houses? Claire Veares discovers that a recent survey found that other countries take a more relaxed attitude to subsidence. But things are gradually changing here as well.
