Commercial
Tense, nervous, headache?
Soft rates, year 2000, the Pension Review... these are just a few of the worries facing many professional indemnity underwriters. Shona Cronin reports.
St Paul in London.
St Paul International has launched a London market operation which will be headed by Paul Cusition, ...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Devitt Insurance Services has made Alex Minajew (above) its new business development manager. He is ...
Pursuit means legal costs breakthrough.
Royal & SunAlliance has teamed up with Willis Corroon to provide what it is billing as "ground-break...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Independent Insurance has appointed Rob Wakeham as regional manager, St Albans. He has been regional...
Appointment at Drewe Insurance.
Andy Tedstone has joined Drewe Insurance as marine manager. He joins from RA Carter Insurance where ...
Tribunal ruling on RSA redundancies delayed.
The manufacturing Science and Finance Union's attempt to seek compensation for 5000 staff made redun...
Independent winners.
Three Independent Insurance employees won prizes at the 1999 National Sales Awards held at the Londo...
Les McIntosh.
The MCS purchase seems to make sense and so to does the CSC deal, but I really cannot get excited about New Millennium.
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Tony Chapman has been appointed director of finance at Devitt Insurance Services. He joins from J K ...
Colonia quits PI.
Colonia Baltica has confirmed it is pulling out of the professional indemnity market, as reported by...
Garry Heath.
Recently, the IFA Association has come in for considerable criticism for the way in which we are dea...
ACE acts on health and safety regulations.
ACE Engineering Insurance has devised a risk management package to help clients comply with two new ...
Called to account.
Insurers providing professional indemnity for accountants are having to deal with the tough stance taken by the various chartered institutes on year 2000. Shona Cronin looks at what this means for the market.
Fierce competition forces PI insurers out of the market.
Harsh competition in the professional indemnity market is forcing some insurers to either shrink the...
Italian carriers up London presence.
Italian insurer Generali is to make London the worldwide head office for its Global operation within...
Appointment at ITT London & Edinburgh.
Sue Rogers has been appointed to claims customer service manager within the commercial lines divisio...
Appointment at RE Brown and Others.
RE Brown and Others has appointed Roberto Murru to its professional and financial risks underwriting...
Built to last.
Professional indemnity is now compulsory for all architects. As the competition hots up, insurers are enhancing their PI policies with extra features says Steve Banner.
Experian's Polaris initiative in testing.
Experian is now well under way with the testing of its central mainframe system - The Insurance On-l...
CCS gets selective on commercial broking.
Dartford-based, CCS has launched CCS Select, an underwriting service which guarantees quotation resp...
Les McIntosh.
Electronic insurance trading is still needlessly bogged down in a morass of different systems. Why can't insurers sort it out?
A break with tradition.
Professional indemnity insurance is not just for the professions, cover is now being tailored for all manner of different sectors. Steve Banner examines the growing PI market.
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Andrew Devey has been appointed special risks surveyor for Property & Casualty Services. He joined f...