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Terry Wellard.
Competitive pressures should be raising service standards in the industry, but today's insurers are fighting a losing battle.
Loss teams for Crawford.
Crawford has put together a loss management service which brings together many different areas of ex...
Zurich Commercial unveils new process.
Zurich Commercial has unveiled a new flood-handling process which focuses predominantly on pre-empti...
Appointment at Groupama.
Stephen Albutt (above) has been made head of the accident and health division at Groupama. He will b...
Appointment at Holman Insurance Marketing.
Ian Sharpe has been appointed to handle the day-to-day running of Holman Marketing and will report t...
Hanks: surprise move to Groupama.
Lloyd Hanks has resigned from his position of managing director at The General Network and moved acr...
Appointment at RP Hodson.
Mike Tomlinson, a former board member of chartered loss adjusters McLarens Toplis, has joined RP Hod...
Exeter Cares for small firms.
Private medical insurer Exeter Friendly Society has moved into the small business market with the la...
More adjusters court brokers.
Loss adjusters are actively seeking to develop closer relations with brokers according, to a recent ...
Eamon Brown.
All sectors of the insurance industry must work together to make rehabilitation the first priority when a individual suffers a serious injury.
Cheshire launches bolt-on Internet quote system.
Cheshire Datasystems has developed a new Internet quote system that will bolt on to brokers' existin...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Tony Sherman has been appointed finance director of Iron Trades. He will have responsibility for all...
Folgate pushes into new areas.
Folgate Insurance is planning to move into new areas of commercial lines business, including propert...
Stovers insures medicine cabinet for £160,000.
Stovers, one of the Towergate companies, last month insured a small medicine cabinet for £160,000. T...
Domestic difficulties.
Home assistance was originally introduced as an add-on to bolster home insurance sales, but it is now an integral part of buildings and contents policies, says Shona Cronin.
With a little help from his friends.
Ex-Independent director Keith Rutter called on several key market figures to help him launch The Underwriter. He tells Tim Collison why brokers will want to trade with the company.
www.beazley.com scoops top prize at RK Carvill awards.
Lloyd's syndicate Beazley has won Best Insurance Company Web Site at awards organised by Internation...
Appointment at The Beckett Group.
Ray Hollis has joined The Beckett Group as pensions consultant. He was previously with James Hay Pen...
PI business acquired.
Alexander Forbes Risk Services has acquired the professional indemnity business portfolio of Robert ...
GISC - get the balance right.
Why is Grant Ellis so concerned about "underfunding of intermediary accounts" (PB, November, p4) whe...
Broker Brands benefits.
The Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers has entered into an agree-ment with Broker B...
Shortfall concerns ignored.
It is interesting that Mike Slack, chairman of the Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Broke...
Heath Group and Lambert Fenchurch to merge in £135m deal.
The Heath Group is to merge with Lambert Fenchurch in a deal worth £135m. The deal, which is due to ...
Church article misleading.
I believe the recent church insurance article (commercial lines supplement, Oct, p17) does not give ...