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Norwich Union Life fined £1.26m for data loss
News The Financial Services Authority has fined Norwich Union Life £1.26m for failing to manage customer data adequately, resulting in financial crimes such as identity theft being committed against its customers.
[December 17, 2007, 12:31]
Norwich Union acts on offshoring security concerns
News Norwich Union has tightened up security at its Indian call centres, following a review of its offshore operations. Out of its total workforce of 30,000, Norwich Union currently employs around 5,000 staff in India.
[March 27, 2007, 10:31]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
News Norwich Union is to send 2,500 jobs offshore to India next year, in a move that could lead to the loss of hundreds of IT jobs at the insurance firm. Aviva, which trades in the UK as Norwich Union, said 2,000 'back office' administration, processing...
[December 3, 2003, 10:25]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
Talkback I have a few shares in Norwich Union from when the floated on the stock market, about £200 worth,not much i know but still i wasnt consulted,or given a ballot on outsourcing. I will be selling my shares and cancelling all my policies with the company.
[December 6, 2003, 23:06]
Norwich Union Targets Improved Storage Data Management and Year-on-Year Savings With a Cisco Storage Area Network
White Papers Norwich Union is the UK's largest insurer with a market share of around 14 per cent With a focus on insurance for individuals and small businesses, Norwich Union insures one in five households, one in seven motor vehicles, and around 800,000...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
Talkback I strongly believe this is a very bad thing. From all of my dealings with companies who outsource to offshore companies I have found the quality of service has dropped to unacceptable levels. As such I won't be renewing any of my insurance policies...
[December 3, 2003, 12:45]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
Talkback Yet another big corp starts pulling out of the UK to give their shareholders an extra 1p per share. The shocking side of the Global economy. I hope that NU customers rethink their allegence & move their business elsewhere.
[December 3, 2003, 10:46]
Norwich Union moves 2,500 jobs to India
Talkback Offshoring is inevitable, and has been sign-posted for some time. In the same way that the manufacturing industries lost people in the 70s/80s, white collar professions like IT will loose people today.
[January 5, 2004, 20:46]
Action is most certainly a good thing!
Talkback Well done to Norwich Union for taking measures to improve their security - although procedures should have been watertight in the first place! Norwich Union are realising this. Security breaches occur when a more lackadaisical approach is taken to...
[March 28, 2007, 12:14]
IT governance: Where technology and finance part
Talkback I work for Norwich Union Life (An Aviva Company), currently responsible for re-developing governance. Cheers, Paul paul.thomas@norwich-union-life.co.uk Has anyone seen the output from HP's recent round-table discussions (as mentioned in Eugene's...
[August 12, 2003, 16:05]
UK Tech Week: E-mail gossip could land you in court
News Citing the recent case where £450,000 was awarded to Western Provident after a court ruled that internal mail at Norwich Union contained 'false and defamatory allegations' against its competitor, Bynoe warns that the libel laws in the UK 'are much...
[October 8, 1998, 8:48]
The Mailroom - Click here to look at this week's letters
News The Norwich Union employees probably thought that their communications were private, and they were precisely what cost their employers the best part of £500,000 in damages. But the lesson of the Norwich Union case is that no employee should assume...
[October 9, 1998, 12:40]
Big Brother Awards highlight digital privacy threats
News Alongside the NCIS as winners of Big Brother Awards were the Norwich Union, which won the Most Invasive Company award for using unapproved genetic tests for potentially fatal diseases when assessing whether to offer life insurance cover to people.
[March 5, 2002, 12:12]
Forms-based Applications & the Web 2.0 ‘Human’ Factor
Blog In short, Norwich Union (soon to be renamed Aviva) and I have a very close relationship after the hours (plural) I spent on the phone to Bangalore (soon to be renamed Bengaluru) getting my wife (recently renamed Mrs Bridgwater) some insurance...
[February 20, 2009, 8:07]
Firms shop around for Net law jurisdictions
News In 1995, UK building society Western Providence sued its competitor Norwich Union for £450,000, after the company was found to be circulating defamatory emails about them. And within the European Union, when defamatory material is published across...
[May 3, 2001, 7:06]
Scotsman fights off multinational's domain name claim
News GNU Insurance -- part of CGNU Group after a £20bn merger with Norwich Union in May last year -- took the case to WIPO alleging that Remocker did not rightfully own the domain Yourmoce.com because it is the name of the firm's real estate business.
[March 2, 2001, 14:36]
Email can bring down your company warns Disney boss
News In the UK, a test case two years ago -- in which building society Norwich Union was sued for allegedly libellous internal emails sent by an employee -- has seen employers get tough on the use of email.
[May 15, 2000, 15:20]
O2 launches i-mode in UK
News The UK version will include various news sites, such as The Times Online, Channel 4 and Sky News, along with general entertainment sites such as The National Lottery and Sony BMG, and financial sites such as Norwich Union and Egg.
[September 26, 2005, 17:20]
Online pension tracking launched in the UK
News Both Prudential and Norwich Union describe the development as "interesting" but have no immediate plans to launch their own online tracking services. According to Nigel Webb, senior manager at Equitable Life, it is the first such system available...
[October 26, 1998, 16:58]
HSBC admits loss of 370,000 customers' details
News The FSA has previously fined insurer Norwich Union £1.26m after its lack of controls enabled fraudsters to cash in £3.3m in polices. HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's financial watchdog after admitting losing a CD containing the details...
[April 7, 2008, 15:03]
