E-Trading
Broker Ward Evans expands into aviation
General commercial insurance broker Ward Evans has continued its expansion programme by setting up an...
General insurance is fundamentally unattractive
General insurance is suffering its worst trading conditions for a decade, according to a report on CG...
ACE Europe launching online claims service
ACE Europe is to allow its European policyholders to initiate, view and process claims via the intern...
Pet plan: new low-cost cover.
Pet Plan has introduced a new low-cost pet insurance policy providing life-long veterinary cover. ...
Lloyd's brokers set to merge.
Lloyd's brokers Edgar Hamilton and FE Wright are to merge, following the acquisition of FE Wright fr...
Adventures in cyberland.
Over the next few months, there is set to be an explosion of new online insurance start-ups. But only a few will have the IT and staying power needed to survive. Tim Collison explains why.
ABI warns insurers could become e-dinosaurs.
Insurers must embrace e-commerce or face extinction, the Association of British Insurers has warned....
Independent Insurance opens Irish headquarters.
Independent Insurance's deputy managing director Phil Condon officially opened the company's Irish h...
Exclusive - Online start-ups hit the market.
A wave of new start-up internet intermediaries is about to hit the personal lines market. Profession...
CETA's free broker facility goes online.
The Central Electronic Trading Agency has launched PReMIUM, a free internet portal which gives broke...
Bupa launches advertising campaign.
Bupa has launched an advertising campaign to promote its critical illness cover. Running in national...
Risks in cyberspace.
Internet use among businesses is growing at phenomenal speed. Rob Wotherspoon outlines some of the potential cyber risks facing insureds and assesses to what extent current commercial wordings address these.
Northern lights.
Martin Hill and Philip Battersby are the team responsible for taking SMG onto better things. Diane Smyth hears how these two bright sparks took a good, but unprofitable, broker and turned it into a lucrative venture.
SVB introduces mid net worth policy for executives.
SVB Underwriting Services has launched a household policy aimed specifically at senior executives ap...
ABI tackles genome fears.
The completion of the map of the human genome has again raised Parliamentary fears over how insurers...
Groupama forms e-advice team.
Groupama has created a new team to help brokers exploit e-commerce. Headed by Ken Hutchinson, ele...
Alan Boswell: takeover £12.
Expanding East Anglian broker Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers has bought Norfolk-based intermediary I...
Appointment at Holman Insurance Brokers.
Holman Insurance Brokers has taken on Glenn Bremerman as divisional director of Holman Motor Facilit...
Swiss Re: insurers must take stock.
Swiss Re's sixth annual report on the UK non-life market warns that the personal lines market is fai...
Naivety threatens to scupper net success.
Those brokers and intermediaries that watched the direct motor market mushroom on the back of Direct...
HSBC Select launches online cover facility.
HSBC Select (UK) is targeting the UK's 3.7 million small businesses with the launch of a new interne...
PB Online give away Pocket Mail.
This month, courtesy of Allianz Cornhill, PB Online is giving away three Pocket Mail Personal Digita...
Appointment at Mondial Assistance.
Mondial Assistance has promoted Steve Hook (above) to national sales manager. He joined Mondial four...
PM does deal with FT
Software house Policy Master is putting together an online insurance facility for www.FTyourmoney.com...