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Genetic Testing | Insurance Cover, Continued.
19th June 2008
The subject of predictive genetic testing - the US experience of which was discussed in our last article - is also a growing issue of concern here in the United Kingdom. In 2001, the British...
Genetic Testing | Insurance Cover
18th June 2008
Over the next few articles we will be looking at the topical issue of predictive genetic testing, the laws surrounding it and how it effects, if at all, insurance availability (particularly critical...
Prizes for Healthy Living
17th June 2008
Insurance giant, Prudential, is offering 40% of Mark Warner holidays and £10 Eurostar tickets, two-for-the-price-of-one Cineworld cinema tickets twenty times as many Nectar points from...
Killing for Insurance Mk.II
16th June 2008
Another day another plot to kill for life insurance money. I thought this sort of thing only happened in Agatha Christie novels but what with Fadri Nasri having his wife killed recently to claim on...
Barclays Selling Assurance Business
12th June 2008
High street bank Barclays is looking for bidder to purchase the life assurance arm of its business, which handles about £7 billion. Market commentators value the Barclays subsidiary as being...
Dubai Insurance Co. Merger
11th June 2008
William Russell, an international insurance specialist for expatriates, and Dubai Insurance Co. have merged to create a new range of international income protection, health and life insurance...
Redundancies in Llanelli
11th June 2008
Operations staff at Draka Wire, a 150 strong Dutch-owned copper wire factory in Llanelli, Wales, have been offered voluntary redundancies, with 18 needing to go. Four temporary workers have already...
Like 'Trophy Wives' from a Sinking Commercial Sector...
10th June 2008
The Telegraph has recently reported that due to the prospect of widespread job losses in the City, lawyers have observed a rise in divorce requests from wives - whom naturally the lawyers assume must...
Irish Stroke Sufferers Receive Sub-Standard Care
6th June 2008
Stroke victims in Northern Ireland whose speech has been affected by their condition do not receive the therapy they need, according to a recent report by Speechmatters, part of the Stroke...
Scared by Statistics?
5th June 2008
We are constantly bombarded with statistics telling us how likely we are to lose our jobs, contract critical illnesses or get hit by cars, even in these articles we've been guilty of doing that. Is...
