The phrase "assurance firm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a company that provides assurance services, typically in the context of auditing or financial services.
Example: "The assurance firm conducted a thorough audit of the company's financial statements to ensure compliance with regulations."
Alternatives: "audit firm" or "assurance company".
So the downturn in share prices has been especially bad news for European assurance firms.
Bonds ended up in the portfolios of mutual funds, as well as big American life assurance firms, notably AFLAC, which has a reported $428m of exposure.
It was a tribute, we thought, to its concentration on dull back-office tasks such as running IT operations for life assurance firms.
The Daily Telegraph quoted Danny Alexander warning that this strategy would lead to a flight of Scotland's valuable banks and life assurance firms: I think it's very hard to see how major financial institutions could keep their headquarters in an independent Scotland if there was no central bank and no lender of last resort.
DEREK BROWN strides into the room, all brisk self-assurance, firm handshake, impeccable tailoring, dossier-laden assistant four paces behind.
But the Federal Trade Commission, which also looks over mergers, said it will review the $48 billion merger-cum-takeover of Amoco by British Petroleum.Further consolidation stirred in the British insurance industry when Friends Provident, a mutual life insurer, made a £744m ($1.21 billion) bid for London & Manchester, a life-assurance firm.
The S.E.C. contributed to those expectations by arguing that certification would "provide greater assurance" that firms "have not violated, or are not currently violating, federal securities laws".
But for anyone seeking relatively firm assurance that a serious tab will mean serious pleasure, the Oak Room won't do.
Now, we just need a firm assurance that Richard Branson was banned from set and we're ready to go.
And though she has a plucky physical assurance -- the firm hand of her grandmother has helped keep her demeanor strong -- she still wants the nurturing she feels is her due.
