Regulation
Insurers are unprepared for EMU
Insurers are reluctant to make significant investment in preparations for the UK entry to Economic an...
Budget wins business award
Budget Insurance Services has been voted Greater Peterborough's Business of the Year for 1999. The ...
Insurers to take on more staff
Employment levels in the insurance sector are expected to rise within the first quarter of 2000, with...
Bennetts petitions on diesel spills
Motorcycle insurance intermediary Bennetts is stepping up its campaign to reduce the numbers of moto...
IOB urges CP33 feedback.
Insurance Ombudsman Laurie Slade has urged all members of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau to provide ...
Sale raises staffing issues.
Q: We are about to purchase a firm of brokers. We are only taking on one of the staff, the others ar...
Launch of the British Damage Management Association.
Overheard joined the good and the great at the launch of the British Damage Management Association, ...
Essential difference.
Sian Fisher, chief underwriting officer at Hiscox Insurance, tells Tim Collison how turning her back on the traditional professional indemnity market has helped the company find success by doing things a bit differently to other insurers.
Exclusive - PWC and Ernst & Young get monitoring contracts.
In the next couple of weeks, the General Insurance Standards Council is expected to appoint Pricewat...
Should I wait until April to sell my firm?
Q: I am thinking of selling my business, and in view of the Chancellors pre-Budget Statement in Nove...
Appointment at Fidelis Insurance Group.
Intermediary the Fidelis Insurance Group has promoted Grenville Coakes to associate director and als...
DCT give full coverage on- and off-piste.
Douglas Cox Tyrie has launched a range of ski insurance contracts which boast price freezes and no p...
New millennium, new-look PB.
Welcome to the new-look Professional Broking. For the last few months, we have been busy working on ...
OFT clears health insurers of anti-competition charge.
The private health insurance market has been cleared of anti-competitive behaviour, following the pu...
No conflict of interest' - IMS.
New start-up intermediary auditing company Insurance Monitoring Services has come under further atta...
Boorman steps into new Insurance Ombudsman role.
Tony Boorman has been appointed as the new Insurance Ombudsman by the Financial Services Ombudsman S...
It's not like the old days.
Company directors have never faced such onerous responsibilities. Simon Threadgold examines what impact the Turnbull Report will have on companies, both large and small.
Shortfall concerns ignored.
It is interesting that Mike Slack, chairman of the Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Broke...
Intermediaries to feel the squeeze
Up to 30% of insurance intermediaries are likely to go out of business in the next three years. Ac...
Bennetts buys Bournemouth broker
High street intermediary chain Bennetts Insurance has made its second acquisition in six months with ...
New Insurance Ombudsman announced
Tony Boorman has been appointed as the new Insurance Ombudsman by the Financial Services Ombudsman Sc...
Exclusive - Hiscox slashes its agency base.
Hiscox Insurance has slashed its agency base from 3000 down to just 200 as part of its determination...
Lloyd's plans two-tier broker system.
In a bid to diversify its business relationships, Lloyd's has launched a consultation document outli...
Axa rethinks commercial service.
Axa has made several key changes to its claims and support services following feedback from brokers ...