Articles by Caitlin Morrison
Improved GWP for Allianz's UK non-life operation
Allianz has reported gross written premiums (GWP) of €525m (£450m) for its UK property casualty insurance operations for the three months ended September 2011.
Transactor wins motorcycle broker deal
Transactor Global Solutions (TGSL) has developed a call-centre and website solution which allows aggregator integration in 14 weeks, for Principal Insurance, a motorcycle insurance broker.
XL commands biggest share of solicitors' PII market
Four insurers provided more than half the market share of solicitors' professional indemnity insurance (PII) in 2011, the Law Society Gazette has reported.
Higos expands in the South West
Higos Insurance Services has acquired RM Gillingham & Son, which will begin trading as Gillingham Insurance Services from December.
Zurich reports improved GWP but COR in decline
Zurich has reported general insurance gross written premiums of $27.05bn (£16.97bn), for the nine months ended September 2011.
More Than to provide online claims tracking service
More Than has launched a new e-claims service which allows customers to track their online claims.
GAB Robins builds construction team
GAB Robins has expanded its construction and engineering claims capabilities with the addition of two new hires.
Novae reports increased GWP
Novae Group has reported gross written premiums (GWP) of £516.4m for the first nine months of 2011.
Miller strengthens corporate risks team
Miller has appointed Mark Hicks as head of client management, expanding its corporate risks team.
Markel reports improved GWP but combined ratio suffers
Markel International has reported gross written premiums (GWP) of $194.2m (£120.8m) for the third quarter of 2011, compared with $178.7m for the same period of 2010.
MSL and Financial and Legal strike deal
MSL Legal Expenses has signed a three-year deal with Financial and Legal Insurance to provide personal and commercial lines legal expenses insurance (LEI).
The Big Idea: winner revealed
Stuart Garforth, of L Wood Insurance Brokers in West Yorkshire, has won the Big Idea competition.
CII promoting young blood
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has brought together 28 young insurance professionals to create three New Generation Groups.
RSA builds up North East management team
RSA has appointed Lee Mooney as regional manager, North East.
Broker Expo: Referral fee ban will be the 'next scandal'
The proposed ban on referral fees will be a good thing, but has the potential to damage public perception of the insurance industry, according to a panel discussion at the 2011 Broker Expo, hosted by Insurance Age.
New technology to provide more accurate flood risk pricing
Chubb Insurance has adopted a new system for predicting the potential severity of flood risk to individual properties.
Chubb adds to UK and Ireland management team
Chubb Insurance has appointed Steve Ranzetta as UK and Ireland accident and health manager.
Amlin takes on new mid/HNW team from Hardy
Amlin UK has announced the appointment of a new team to its mid/high net worth household account.
Allianz promotes its own to build executive team
Allianz Commercial has announced two executive appointments from within the company.
Arista builds Manchester team with in-house promotion
Arista has appointed Martin Hyde as regional underwriting manager.
Homeserve suspends sales after mis-selling review
Homeserve has suspended all telephone sales and marketing following a review of its UK telephones sales operations and procedures.
Brokers missing out on untapped event market
Brokers around the UK could be taking better advantage of local event cancellation business, according to research commissioned by Beazley.
Invicta completes Fountain acquisition
Invicta Insurance Services has acquired the household and property owners’ portfolios of Fountain Insurance & Investment Services.
Lawyers warn of loophole in referral fee ban
Global law firm Kennedys has warned there is a significant loophole in the government’s proposed ban on referral fees.