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Police role 'crash cash' sales - Police forces are acting as unofficial claims chasers, giving accident victims details of legal helpline, which then sells profitable injury cases solicitors Windfall blow for long-termers - Long-standing Norwich Union policyholders may receive smaller windfalls more recent policyholders, if £4bn with-profits surplus redistribution goes ahead



Police role 'crash cash' sales  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Police forces are acting as unofficial claims chasers, giving accident victims details of a legal helpline, which then sells on profitable injury cases to solicitors
Windfall blow for long-termers  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Long-standing Norwich Union policyholders may receive smaller windfalls than more recent policyholders, if the £4bn with-profits surplus redistribution goes ahead
Market report: Friday close  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
17.00:Investors were checking into Inter-ContinentalHotel (ICH) today as rumours of a 1500p takeover offer grew louder
Plane tax row takes off  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Airlines have ordered passengers to pay extra duty or miss flights. The carriers have blamed the Government but angry passengers say airlines should pay
Halifax raises mortgage rate  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Britains biggest mortgage lender Halifax has raised its mortgage rate following the Bank of Englands shock interest rate rise
ICICI savings rate up to 5.65%  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
The post-rate rise savings war has fired up, with ICICI bank raising the rate on its online HiSave account to 5.65% from 5.45% >>Beat the rate rise|
Sky faces probe into £940m ITV share raid  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
BSkyB is to be formally investigated over its £940m raid on ITV shares in November
Remortgage to beat the rise  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Thousands of people will be looking to remortgage as a result of the bank rate rise. This is Money mortgage expert Simon Lambert picks the best deals
Lord Browne quits BP early  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Chief executive Lord Browne, who had fought for the right to stay on at BP beyond 2008, will leave in July, the company announced this afternoon
Beckham move sparks domain-name rush  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
David Beckham's big money move to the United States has prompted a frenzy of 'cyber squatting', a leading domain name firm said today
Strike threat as unions reject BA deal  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Check-in staff and baggage handlers at British Airways today rejected a proposed deal to tackle the airline's huge pension deficit and warned of possible industrial action
Small returns from FP with-profits  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Friends Provident has made small increases to bonus rates for some with-profits policyholders but the majority will see no immediately benefit
Carphone tries new free broadband push  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Carphone Warehouse is to make a renewed push of its free broadband service to TalkTalk customers
Floods raise insurance fears  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
59 flood warnings have been issued across the UK - Insurance experts are warning homeowners to urgently check their insurance arrangements
FSA widens PPI crackdown  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
The financial watchdog is stepping up its work to crackdown on the selling of controversial payment protection insurance, by sending out undercover 'mystery shoppers'
Homeowners absorb rate shock  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Millions of homebuyers were today assessing the impact on their mortgage repayments of yesterday's sudden rate hike - the third in just five months
ATM plant closure to cost 650 Scottish jobs  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
US-owned cash machine producer NCR is to axe 650 manufacturing jobs as it confirmed it will close down its Dundee plant
Rival sues Apple over iPhone name  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Less than 24 hours after Apple unveiled its new iPhone, a rival company is suing for an alleged trademark violation
Novice landlords defy rental downturn  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Newcomers are flooding the buy-to-let market, refusing to be spooked by the fact that rental returns have fallen to a five-year low
Experts warn on mortgage crisis  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
More than 50 families will lose their homes every day this year because they cannot cope with their mortgages, experts have warned
Fanfare as iPhone unveiled  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
It's a phone, an MP3 player, a camera and a hand-held computer, and at £260 it's got Apple shares soaring. So is this the gadget the world's been waiting for?
NU casts doom for endowments  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Norwich Union has admitted there is a high risk that 90% of its mortgage endowment policies will not perform well enough to cover policyholder's home loans
Tesco to sell private medical cover  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Tesco has announced that it is to sell private medical insurance in a further expansion into the personal finance market>> NEWS & ADVICE: Health insurance
Investing guru Dr Bill Mott returns  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Few individuals make a successful long-term career from fund management, says personal finance editor Jeff Prestridge and one of them - legend Bill Mott - has returned at Psigma Asset Management
Conman's tax avoidance scam  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mails ace investigator Tony Hetherington delves into a convicted conman pushing a tax avoidance scheme
Final months needing some gloss  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
It's usually best for top execs to go sooner rather than later - and Lord Browne needs to put some gloss on the past 18 months
Pushmi-pullyu inflation tips rate rise  [01/14/2007 01:17 PM]
As higher petrol and university bills push up inflation, the interest rate rises. So life becomes more expensive all round says Financial Mail's economics editor