IT seems to have been forgotten that in 2008-2009 Hibernian-Aviva, which became Aviva subsequently, transferred 580 positions in Ireland to Bangalore in India.

CONSUMERS face a further hike in insurance costs on a day when data reveals Ireland is still one of the most expensive countries in Europe.

THERE is a matter which I’d like to focus attention on.

The Quinn Insurance takeover will be complete by mid-August after company returns revealed losses of €706m in 2009.

QUINN Group’s reluctant acceptance of the appointment of two administrators is welcome for many reasons.

QUINN Insurance is expected to remain in either full or partial administration for several years to come.

A GENERAL hike in insurance premiums and as much as a 3% tax on all non-life premiums could be the cost consumers have to pay for the state’s second largest insurance provider going into administration.

THE crisis in Irish financial institutions is an opportunity to end the malign influence of property development/speculation on how we are governed.

PAYING damages to every person from whom the State illegally deducted nursing home charges would cost up to €6 billion, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney said yesterday.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

The jury in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has been sent to a hotel overnight after failing to reach a verdict.

A lorry driver accused of conspiracy in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance trial has told the jury in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he had nothing to do with the claims made.

A Mullingar businessman has told an alleged Ir£151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy trial that invoices purporting to come from him were spurious documents and had not been signed by him.

A consultant engineer has told a jury it would have taken up to seven hours to remove a Scania truck and its load from a ditch into which one allegedly fell after colliding with a Rover car.

A man who gave a false address paid Stg£10,000 cash in Northern Ireland currency to buy a badly damaged Scania truck from an English salvage company.

A professional motor assessor has told the Ir£151,000 fraud conspiracy trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that a Rover car he examined was never involved in a traffic accident.

A former garda accused of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 told detectives he saw a car and a truck lying in a ditch on a new Co Leitrim bypass.

A factory security man has told the jury in the 'fake accident' trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that neither saw nor heard any indication of a major collision at the alleged scene.

FURTHER consolidation in the Irish insurance market looks to be underway.

OVER-expansion and over-reliance on stock markets have resulted in pressure on the global insurance sector.

MORE that €23m lying idle in the PMPA rescue fund should be utilised to prevent hundreds of Irish companies going out of business because of spiralling insurance costs, a Mayo TD said yesterday.