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Products : Overseas cover
Travel Protection Group and Operations Abroad has signed a deal to offer insurance cover for patients seeking treatment overseas.The deal will provide cover for patients' visiting overseas hospita ...
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Products : Intellectual scheme
Broker Camberford Law has introduced an improved scheme for intellectual property rights.Covering individuals and multinational companies, the scheme will provide legal expenses both for the insur ...
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Products : Rainbow contract
Rainbow International has won a multi-million pound contract to provide disaster restoration services to Capita Insurance Services.This contract will cover the 1.5million fire, flood and accidenta ...
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Capita repairs costs
Capita Insurance Services has launched a surveyor-led property repair solution, which significantly reduces claims costs.The household and small commercial solution is designed to address claims l ...
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Features
CPD: Sources of income
Regulation is demanding more transparency on broker fees and commissions. This week Waltham Pitglow explains what the relevant professional codes require.
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9/11 - the aftermath: Adjusting to loss
The scars may be healing but for the insurance industry, the work goes on. Three loss adjusters share their personal experiences of Ground Zero.
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9/11 - the aftermath: Retreat from terror
Since 11 September terrorism has become a huge issue for all. Insurers are running scared and cover is scarce, Michael Faulkner reports.
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9/11 - the aftermath: Lowering the risk of high rise
Tall buildings have long presented a nightmare scenario to firefighters, but the World Trade Centre fire compounded this risk. Peter Bressington explains the technical aspects of managing the new threats.
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9/11 - the aftermath: Is 9/11 a convenient scapegoat?
The World Trade Centre attack has been cited as the source of most of the insurance industry's current woes. But is this fair, asks Michael Faulkner.
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9/11 - the aftermath: We're not looking at the bigger picture
The consequences of managing risks is often ignored, says Carole Edrich.
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Comments/Letters
Letters : Norwich Union terms
There has been much criticism of Norwich Union's (NU) "new" terms of business agreements in Insurance Times over the past few weeks and I feel it necessary to set the record straight.Where histori ...
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Comments/Letters
Letters: Cyclists' liability
In reply to L Kendall (5 September, Letters, Insurance Times), rest assured, I had not missed the point that the proposed measures were a licence to print money. I just felt that this was such an obvi ...
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Highway admits to low standards
Lower standards of customer service at Highway were "necessary pain" caused as new IT systems were put in place, said managing director Andrew Gibson.Gibson admitted that service levels dropped ea ...
