Commercial
PI Direct on the lookout for broker membership.
Specialist professional indemnity underwriter PI Direct is looking for new brokers to join its newly...
Going for broke: Bernard Knope & Partners owes £1m to creditors.
The debts of collapsed broker Bernard Knope & Partners and Town and County Insurance Services have b...
CGNU announces board changes
CGNU has announced that Richard Harvey, currently deputy group chief executive, will become group chi...
Bad weather brings mixed news for RSA
Royal & SunAlliance, the UK's fourth largest insurer, yesterday doubled its estimates of the losses i...
Appointment at Devitt.
Devitt has announced a new team for its motor cycle insurance call centre at Romford. James Bridge w...
AIM and Beckett battle it out.
The Beckett Group marketing director Bernard Steward-Deane has described the wrangle with Alliance I...
From our daily news service ... David Pye secures more capacity.
Pye syndicate 962, relaunched by former London & Edinburgh managing director David Pye at the beginn...
David Pye secures more capacity
Pye syndicate 962, relaunched by former London & Edinburgh managing director David Pye at the beginni...
RSA: Enterprise phase two.
Royal & SunAlliance is to extend Enterprise, its telephone-based facility for small business insuran...
Brockbank name change.
Lloyd's insurer Brockbank Syndicate Management has changed its name to XL Brockbank. The new name in...
GISC compliant cover offered to ABTA members
Devitt Insurance Services has put together a commercial policy for the specific needs of members of t...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Howard Carter has been appointed as an executive director. Mr Carter has been with the company since...
Lloyd's: household policy.
Chaucer Insurance (Lloyd's syndicate 587) is to exclusively underwrite a new household policy, arran...
Brockbank takes parent's name
Lloyd's insurer Brockbank Syndicate Management has changed its name to XL Brockbank. The new name inc...
Merger for Godbold.
Hemel Hempstead-based broker Godbold Hadden and its subsidiary GH Bray Clements have merged, and are...
Chaucer Insurance seeks to double its agency base.
Lloyd's syndicate Chaucer Insurance, formerly known as Ibex Motor Policies, aims to more than double...
A 'one-stop-shop' for homeworkers.
SVB Underwriting Services has entered the homeworking market, with SVB Home & Business insurance. ...
Polaris goes pro B2B
Polaris has revealed it is investing in several business to business websites, benefiting brokers and...
Alexander Forbes buys into National Britannia
Financial and risk services organisation Alexander Forbes is to acquire a 20% share of the safety, he...
Ibex Motor Policies reinvents itself
Lloyd's syndicate Ibex Motor Policies, the personal lines and fleet division of Chaucer, has changed ...
InsurE-com forced to delay online launch.
Insure-com, the online trading initiative, has been forced to put back its launch date due to insure...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Devitt Insurance Services has promoted Bernard Marsh, divisional director motor, to its board of dir...
RSA moves underwriters to London for new start.
Royal & SunAlliance is moving its commercial underwriting team from Manchester to London. The mov...
Pulling power.
Goods in transit insurance is traditionally the preserve of the specialist broker. However, it has been greatly demystified over recent years, and general brokers could be doing more to pull in clients and reap the rewards on offer.