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IBN rename follows US expansion.
The International Broker Network has changed its name to the Worldwide Broker Network following the ...
Risk of trading with small firms is eased.
A new database for assessing the risk of trading with non-limited businesses, sole traders and partn...
IGB outsources run-off business.
Non-standard motor insurer Insurance GB is making a third of its staff redundant and outsourcing its...
Alistair Murray error.
In last month's news story about the integration of Eurosure into Key Choice, we inadvertently state...
Ian Ritchie.
Issues raised at the BIIBA conference must remain 'live' if we are to get good ideas off the drawing board.
Orion eases claims.
Orion is issuing new policyholders with a 24-exposure camera in a bid to ease the claims process. Th...
David Worsfold.
International consolidation: what's that got to do with me ?' Quite a lot, with plenty of opportunities for the provincial and regional broker.
Kestrel falls prey to fierce market.
Highway Motor Policies has pulled the plug on its Kestrel facility, blaming its inadequate performan...
Supermarket sweep?
Supermarkets are now offering financial products at your convenience. Frank Shaw looks at the impact this will have on the broker market in the first of a series of features based on research by the 'Across the Millennium' study.
Violent crime friendly.
Friend Indeed, the newly launched friendly society backed by victim of violent crime Lisa Potts (PB ...
Shop chains offered multiple benefits.
GAN Insurance has put together a package policy for retail chains, the fifth in its Trademark series...
Appointment at PoundGates.
PoundGates, the Ipswich-based insurance and risk management broker, has recently made three new appo...
Royal & SunAlliance launches full-cycle commercial policy.
Royal & SunAlliance has gone live with a full-cycle commercial package product on Policy Master's GE...
Towergate travel buy doubles group's GWP.
Towergate Underwriting Services has bought travel underwriting outfit Chase Parkinson, taking the to...
The industry has its say.
The Treasury has received a substantial response to its call for submissions on the future of the IBRC. Tim Collison considers how the trade bodies' arguments stack up on this crucial issue.
Yet more motor market victims.
It would seem that there is no escaping problems in the motor market. Just as a rescue package an...
Colonia Baltica move.
Colonia Baltica has moved its non-marine underwriting, claims, accounts and administration functions...
Wellington quits personal lines.
Wellington Underwriting is pulling out of the UK personal lines market and selling both its motor an...
Conference and Exhibition at the NEC.
Brokers and intermediaries attending this year's Insurance and Financial Services Technology Confere...
Appointment at Moore-Harvey International.
The global engineering consultancy Moore-Harvey International has appointed Michael J Coyle as its n...
Zurich merger with British American
On the eve of its merger with British American Financial Services, Zurich has produced a book that ...
The shortfall of the law.
An estimated £432m shortfall is threatening the future of the Solicitors' Indemnity Fund. Edmund Tirbutt says this could be good for brokers.
Appointment at Royal & SunAlliance.
Trevor Hillman has been made Royal & SunAlliance Engineering's regional engineering business manager...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has appointed four new underwriting managers. John Myers, who has been with th...