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The shock of the new.
The broker travel market will soon be subject to IPT at 17.5%. If this were not enough to contend with, developments in Internet technology are threatening to reshape the travel insurance sector, says Caroline Duncan.
Policy Master to float on the Alternative Investment Market.
Software house Policy Master is to float on the Alternative Investment Market in order to position t...
BIIBA submits its self-regulation plan to Treasury.
The British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association has sent its regulatory submission to the T...
All in the hands of the Treasury.
By the time this issue of Professional Broking is published, all submissions on broker regulation wi...
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.
ITT L&E name change.
ITT London & Edinburgh looks set to change its name to Hartford, in line with its US parent the Hart...
Hambro Assistance set for re-branding following acquisition.
The name and brand of Hambro Assistance look set to change following the news that Hambros is sellin...
Europe motors on.
Direct tele-insurance is growing rapidly in European countries such as France, Belgium and Spain, ac...
Direct Line to rescue.
Direct Line has launched into the motor breakdown market with a new service called Direct Line Rescu...
Appointment at CILA.
Bev Fitzgerald, deputy chief executive and operations director at Cunningham UK, takes over as Presi...
Appointment at Medical Insurance Agency.
Bridget Poulter has been appointed marketing co-ordinator at dental specialist Clinident, part of th...
Appointment at Lonsdale BMH.
Lloyd's umbrella broker Lonsdale BMH has appointed Michael Ball as director to develop its extended ...
Lombard moves up market into period homes.
Lombard General Insurance is targeting listed and period homes with the launch of a new policy in pa...
Footman James develops website.
The cars may be old, but the method of selling is brand new. Specialist motor broker Footman James h...
Appointment at pi direct.
Professional indemnity specialist pi direct has appointed Sarah Roberts as deputy underwriter. She j...
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 ...
Appointment at Generali.
Neil Moore (above) has been appointed manager of Generali's offshore division, with responsibility f...
Intermediaries fall foul of code.
Seventeen independent intermediaries are facing across-the-board agency cancellations for failing to...
Tony Lancaster.
Insurers are doing themselves no favours by prolonging the soft market, when what the customer ultimately wants is high quality.
ABI: no definitive Y2K exclusion guidelines.
Mark Boleat, director general of the Association of British Insurers, has said that the ABI is not i...
Francis Perkins Award.
Yorkshire broker Graham Huntrods has won the British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association's...
Appointment at Commercial Union.
Conor Jennings has become the new managing director at Commercial Union Management Services (Guernse...
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.
WPA goes for middle ground with Rowan.
Western Provident Association has produced a private medical policy that will fill the middle ground...