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Appointment at HSBC Insurance Brokers
HSBC Insurance Brokers has appointed Tim Kemp as deputy chief executive. Currently managing director...
LMA and LMUA merge to represent syndicates
The Lloyd's Market Association has merged with the Lloyd's Motor Underwriters' Association to repres...
Enhanced data will define UK's physical landscape
Ordnance Survey will introduce its enhanced digital height data, defining the physical landscape of ...
Technology tops the agenda at Office Everywhere event
At this year's Office Everywhere event, Sir Laurie Magnus, non-executive chairman of Xchanging Ins-s...
Oxygen licenses CATEX Pivot Point system
Web-based trading and back-office systems provider CATEX has announced that Oxygen has licensed the ...
Underwriting discipline may not last in 2005
Rating agency AM Best has announced that European January renewals indicate that underwriting discip...
Heading for a fall
Liability Insurance: Employers' Liability
Insure and Go launches motor for young drivers
Travel specialist Insure and Go has launched an aggressive push into motor, initially targetting you...
Postcode lottery raises household flood barriers
This month's Power Hour, which took place at the DAS offices in Bristol, focuses on new levels of information and resources available to insurers involved in assessing flood-risk, and asks if this new information is specific enough to meet the needs of…
Pavillion to launch in-house premium finance facility
Pavillion Insurance Network is to launch its own in-house premium finance facility from April 2005. ...
Motor repair factoring company believed to have collapsed
A factoring company for motor repairers is understood to have collapsed through lack of funding. In...
Direct marketing faces new scrutiny
Direct marketing continues to be a lucrative tool, especially for the insurance sector, but Alex Walsh warns that random targeting of a product will eventually backfire and will soon be outlawed
insuranceage.com poll
This month's insuranceage.com poll asked 'Do you think resistance to Financial Services Authority re...
Rainbow International finds a way
Restoration company Rainbow International has found a way to establish toxic mould levels to help in...
Magnus: London market is 'rife with complacency'
Sir Laurie Magnus, chairman of Xchanging Ins-sure Services and investment banker, has slammed top Lo...
Airmic's Progress gets ten partners
Ten insurance firms are to become partners for Airmic's Progress through Partnerships initiative. Th...
Sectornet casts doubt over rival's cost-cut claims
Sectornet has criticised claims made by rival Sirius over the cost-saving potential of its flagship ...
ABI reopens debate
It was interesting to see the Association of British Insurers (ABI) reopen the debate on the way in ...
Ironing out the IT creases
IT case
Allianz broking pilot targets £1m in additional revenue
Allianz Cornhill's broker development manager, Lloyd Hanks has set a target of writing £1m new busin...
Come hell or high water
Disaster recovery
The seeds of doubt
The potential large-scale introduction of genetically modified crops has been beset by controversy, mainly focusing on the possible negative effect on the environment, but as Matt Warner explains, the main issue is who is going to insure the crops and…
ABI rolls out new plans for financial advice payments
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has put forward new proposals to reform the way in which f...