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Cullum Capital Ventures acquires majority stake
Cullum Capital Ventures has acquired a majority stake in Managing Agents Reference Assistance Servic...
Broker Network rejects bid
Broker Network has snubbed a recent acquisition approach, strongly believed to have been made by Axa...
Report by the ABI
Approximately 35% of people in the lowest-income households - less than £10,000 per year - have no i...
Straight Marketing conducts research for esist Insurance
Research conducted by Straight Marketing for esist Insurance has found that escalating IT costs are ...
Stephen Matanle to become chairman
Stephen Matanle, global placement leader at Marsh and chairman of the London Market Insurance Broker...
Bollington Group acquires Greystone
The Bollington Group has acquired Greystone Insurance Services in Manchester as part of its ongoing ...
Brokers need to unite over aggregators
It is good to see the British Insurance Brokers' Association standing up to the aggregators. Eric Ga...
Falling foul of Data Protection Act
Insurance companies and brokers that have traditional in-house call recording facilities could be fa...
Rock Insurance launches business travel insurance policy
Rock Insurance has launched a business travel insurance policy. The policy, underwritten by Mondial ...
BJIC joins the Broker Network
Brian Johnston Insurance Consultants (BJIC), which is based in Surrey, has joined the Broker Network...
Claims are result of water escape
Approximately 28% of residential and commercial property claims are the result of water escape, acco...
Sterling reveals growth plans
Sterling Insurance has revealed plans to grow its business and expand its product offering to the br...
Smith Ross Shane and Greenfield Risk merge
Smith Ross Shane and Greenfield Risk Services have merged. The new company, Smith Greenfield Service...
Bruce: Groupama ready to answer growing demand
Groupama has created a dedicated schemes underwriting team, in a bid to reinforce its position in th...
Research from the ABI
Insurance companies are uncovering and preventing fraudulent insurance claims worth more than £1m ev...
All for show?
Many insurers claim that they provide exceptional service to brokers, while many brokers believe that insurers are all 'song and dance' when it comes to their performance. Paul Lang looks into the state of service standards in the market, and how…
Thomson Local launches price comparison website
Directories business, Thomson Local, has launched a price comparison website using a white labelling...
A monthly look at who is moving where ..
Aon has appointed two experts in trade credit insurance and insurance broking to boost its Birmingha...
Call it what you like
While it makes sense for insurance companies to look for cheaper and more effective ways of transacting business with customers, has the decision to offshore operations to India caused more harm than good? Sarah Hills reports
Findings reveal a sorry state of affairs
The findings of the latest review of the sale of payment protection insurance (PPI) by the Financial...
Settling some Rockpool issues
I refer to the letter 'Something Strange at Rockpool' in the October edition, and must put the recor...
Clients left uninsured
An insurance broker has been stopped from conduction-regulated activities by the Financial Services ...
The hottest insurance gossip
Polly was delighted to join Peter Hubbard and the rest of the Axa team for some champagne in the cit...