Analysis
Access for the smaller broker
A new underwriting agency has been launched to give smaller brokersdirect access to major underwrite...
Zurich offers Risk Review
A new risk management tool designed to help brokers who do not havethe capability or resources in pl...
News in brief
Norwich Union (NU) has extended its commitment to The Broker Network(TBN) by joining the organisatio...
NIG problem concerns
NIG is concerned that there may be problems with some business placedthrough Preston Whiteside on be...
Alarm sounds for annual award
Alarm, the national forum for risk management in the public sector,is searching for the UK's risk ma...
Up close and personal
The personal legal protection (PLP) market need no longer be solelythe province of TV-advertised after-the-event companies; brokers' detailedknowledge of their clients' needs puts them in an ideal position toexploit the range of more 'traditional' legal…
Buy-To-Let - To let or not to let
Commercial Property
Handlers face rising 'claims rage', says study
Research by the Society of Claims Technicians has found that being aclaims handler in today's aggres...
Broker versus Direct - Direct action
Commercial Property
SEIB to cater for the country cabbie
Taxi drivers operating in rural areas are to get their own insuranceproduct from scheme specialists ...
'Adopt banks' RM'
Insurance firms need to get a better handle on the way risk ismanaged within their businesses, accor...
Retail Sector - Retail needs therapy
Commercial Property
Companies unnecessarily expose to litigation
A huge number of UK companies are unnecessarily exposing themselvesto the possibility of corporate m...
EU reform could threaten livestock production
Farmers in Devon have launched a campaign to get the Government tourge a rethink over European Union...
Risk perspectives - No longer whistling in the dark
Time magazine recently named three 'whistleblowers' as its People ofthe Year. It was a surprising a...
GAB goes for Castagno
GAB Robins has recruited a new chief executive for its UK operationsfrom the insurance industry with...
Service Standards - Service not included?
Commercial Property
IRM expands ways
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has expanded the ways in whichits members can become Fellows ...
ABC - easy as 123
IT Case Study
Builders ditch flood defence
The Government's plan to put 200,000 new homes on the South-East'sgreen belt is in jeopardy, as buil...
Jet noise
Families of children in remote areas of Wales are preparing to dobattle in the courts with the Gover...
The Lure of Maturer Insurers
Mark Stephens from IPS Group spells out the variety of promisingcareer options still available to over-45 insurance professionals, even asthe industry turns towards the more up-to-date - but far lessexperienced - younger generation
F&M spread by poor logistics
The UK's agricultural industry has failed to learn the logisticallessons of the Foot & Mouth (F&M) d...
Ryan and Ensors link up
Independent East Anglian broker Ryan Insurance has formed apartnership with Ensors, a Suffolk-based ...