Commercial
Arag seals MMA deal
Arag has been selected by broker-only insurer MMA Insurance to provide legal expenses cover to be offered alongside its commercial combined portfolio.
Allianz and Towergate strike affinity deal
Allianz Commercial has secured a three-year deal with Towergate Northampton as sole provider for a number of affinity schemes within the broker's small to medium-sized enterprise book of business.
Unfair dismissal costs could hurt businesses
New compensation limits for unfair dismissal and higher statutory redundancy payments effective from February 1, 2009, expose firms to further increases in costs, according Allianz Insurance.
Brit establishes US presence
Brit Insurance Holdings has established a new US service operation, Brit Insurance Services (USA), based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Third Force 2009
Listing of wholesalers, networks, alliances, managing underwriting groups and franchisors
SFO to investigate Madoff
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is opening an investigation into Bernard Madoff's UK business operations. The focus of the investigation will be on UK victims and any criminal offences that might have been committed in the UK.
Brit joins OurNetwork panel
OurNetwork has launched an enhanced comparative Directors' & Officers' (D&O) product for member brokers and has confirmed that Brit Insurance has formally taken up its place on the OurNetwork panel of insurers.
Raring to go
Somewhere beneath the biggest players and somewhere above the smaller ones, Peter Burrows believes Brit UK is superbly placed to take great strides once the economic tide turns. Martin Friel reports
Bollington embarks on a programme ..
Commercial broker Bollington has embarked on a programme to grow its wholesale arm by 50%. From this...
Kwik-Fit insurance expands
Kwik Fit Insurance is expanding into commercial lines with own-brand small and medium-sized enterpri...
Cash struggles spark boom in underwriting fraud
As the credit crunch wrangles on, insurers are seeing evidence of increasing underwriting fraud, cos...
Appointment at Moorhouse
Moorhouse has appointed Joe Sultana to its board as operations director. Prior to joining, Sultana w...
Appointment at MMA Insurance
MMA Insurance has made two appointments within its business development team. Claire Ephgrave has be...
Kwik-Fit insurance expands
Kwik Fit Insurance is expanding into commercial lines with own-brand small and medium-sized enterpri...
Bollington embarks on a programme ..
Commercial broker Bollington has embarked on a programme to grow its wholesale arm by 50%. From this...
Raring to go
Somewhere beneath the biggest players and somewhere above the smaller ones, Peter Burrows believes Brit UK is superbly placed to take great strides once the economic tide turns. Martin Friel reports
Top 100 Independent Brokers 2008
Profiling the UK's top 100 independent commercial brokers
Flood defence plans brought forward a year
The Environment Agency has announced the flood defence projects in England are to be brought forward a year.
Bollington aims for 50% wholesale growth
Bollington has embarked on an ambitious program to grow its wholesale arm by 50% next year.
Axa investigates 400 motor claims in anti-fraud effort
Axa has assembled a specialist anti-fraud team and begun investigating over 400 motor accident cases where fraudulent activity has been suspected, as part of a wider industry effort to curb so-called "crash for cash" scams.
Piracy - Shipping moves onto war footing after pirate attacks
Piracy is in the spotlight as 40 ships, including the oil tanker the Sirius Star, have been seized by Somali pirates so far this year, writes Andrew Tjaardstra
Ray Holloway - King of the road
Director's Q&A
Appointment at Brit Insurance
Brit Insurance has recruited Steven Pollock to the newly-created role of UK portfolio manager, profe...
Product liability - Goods in, claims out
Katherine Brandon explores the competitive market of product liability and the effect of compensation culture on the market