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On a collision course.
Insurers have been battling with accident repairers and solicitors for the cut-price end of the uninsured loss recovery market for some time now. However, Steve Banner says insurers are now taking a different stance.
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has appointed four new underwriting managers. John Myers, who has been with th...
Call Fraudline.
Sedgwick and PLC Consultancy Services have teamed up to launch a new scheme to help companies reduce...
Going private.
For some time, experts have been predicting that changes to the welfare state are likely to boost to the PMI market. However, as Simon Threadgold explains, growth in this sector is still slow.
Direct Line to rescue.
Direct Line has launched into the motor breakdown market with a new service called Direct Line Rescu...
Steve Knight.
Polaris seems to have reached 'critical mass', but should it have been designed to make use of the Internet?
Tony Lancaster.
Insurers are doing themselves no favours by prolonging the soft market, when what the customer ultimately wants is high quality.
Appointment at Commercial Union.
Conor Jennings has become the new managing director at Commercial Union Management Services (Guernse...
Archer overhaul.
Following the appointments of Jeremy Adams as executive chairman and Michael Earp as managing direct...
Appointment at Independent.
Independent Insurance has made a string of new appointments. Janet Stansfield has been made executiv...
Towergate buys marine outfit.
Towergate Underwriting Services has bought specialist marine underwriting agency Carrington Internat...
Broker Direct records loss of £1.8m after six months of trading.
Broker Direct made an operating loss of nearly £1.8m for the year ending 31 December 1997, which it ...
ABI works its way through brokers' year 2000 forms.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is wading through the responses to its year 2000 database ...
Intermediaries fall foul of code.
Seventeen independent intermediaries are facing across-the-board agency cancellations for failing to...
Francis Perkins Award.
Yorkshire broker Graham Huntrods has won the British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association's...
ITT L&E/DAS deal.
ITT London & Edinburgh has signed a deal with DAS that will enable the legal expenses insurer to und...
ASA direct mail verdict awaited.
Despite early claims of victory by Broker Direct over its complaint about Direct Line's recent maili...
Blazing glory.
Arson accounts for the majority of fires in churches. This sad state of affairs is made worse by the fact the churches are becoming increasingly vulnerable to theft. Steve Banner reports.
A time of uncertainty.
BIIBA's Spirit of Success conference was packed with useful marketing information. But Tim Collison says that the main topic of conversation was fears about changes in regulation.
Appointment at Generali.
Neil Moore (above) has been appointed manager of Generali's offshore division, with responsibility f...
Safe from harm.
Several large insureds have recently reported significant premium reductions. Tony Dowding says this is not due to the soft market, but to improvements in health and safety procedures.
Appointment at CILA.
Bev Fitzgerald, deputy chief executive and operations director at Cunningham UK, takes over as Presi...
This is a job for someone else.
It was not so long ago that insurers looked after all of their own claims handling. However, Steve Banner says that more insurers are now outsourcing their claims operations.
Strategic moves.
Traditionally, brokers have always had a lot of agencies in order to offer clients a wide range of policies. Jennifer Jarrett says that now is the time to be more strategic in your thinking.