E-Trading
The battle of the brands.
There has been a plethora of dotcoms launched in the insurance industry in the past few years but it seems the heavy-weights consistently have the upper hand over their start-up counterparts.
Zurich confirms the launch of three business centres.
Zurich UK Commercial has launched three small business centres, as first reported in June's Professio...
Brokersure.co.uk launches version for smaller brokers.
Brokersure.co.uk has launched Brokersure.go, a version of the system aimed at smaller brokers. Th...
Business in an age of disruptive technologies.
The UK insurance industry must pre-empt the impact of potentially disruptive technology in order to continue to reap rewards and offer high levels of customer service, argues Tony Barker.
Brokers win six BIA awards.
Brokers can be proud of their performance at this year's British Insurance Awards, with six firms wi...
Be prepared.
Television advertising is full of insurance schemes offering after-the-event cover. But David Haynes says brokers should be encouraging clients to be safe, not sorry by taking out quality ULR cover.
Mike Dodd calls for hard facts from ASPs.
Mike Dodd, business development director at Sirius Group, has spoken out against the 'razzmatazz' of...
Service with a smile.
Customers are becoming ever more demanding but the new CRM systems can provide the technology to serve their desires to them on a plate.
The ongoing saga of Independent's predictable fall.
The one good thing about a general election is that once the votes are counted and the new prime min...
Axa buys www. business-risk.com.
AXA Insurance has bought Independent Insurance's ex-broker communications website www.business-risk....
E-Commerce Watch.
Internet software house insurE-com has launched insur-E.claim, a claims portal. insurE-com says the ...
Tackling the e-future challenge.
The e-revolution is likely to radically change the way insurance companies do business, but utility must take precedence over novelty.
Opening doors.
Just as the automotive industry has discovered that much assembly work is better done by outside specialists, so insurers are finding that outsourcing core functions can cut costs.
CIIG gets the ball rolling
The Creditors of Independent Insurance will prepare a class action as early as August if an initial f...
Harrison-Beaumont taps into IT
Harrison-Beaumont (Insurance Brokers) are acting as the managing agents for Milo, a new policy underw...
Broker Direct boosts EDI
Broker Direct has gone live with new business and mid term adjustments on New Millennium Technologies...
Fears hinders insurers' e-commerce development
Computer Sciences Corporation has found that insurance companies are lagging behind in e-commerce bec...
Bell & Co goes through MBO
Derby-based Bell & Co Insurance Brokers has undergone a management buy-out by employees Darrell Black...
Carruthers launches 'the distributor of the future'.
Ex-Eastgate Group director Max Carruthers has unveiled his new venture, Rubicon Corporation, providin...
Brokersure offers a smaller option
Brokersure.co.uk has launched Brokersure.go, a version of the system aimed at smaller brokers. The ...
Dial Direct buys from Aim.
Middlesex-based Aim Insurance Services has sold its general book of business to the Dial Direct Grou...
Annual insurance growth.
Annual travel insurance is now more popular than single-trip cover, says Club Direct. "With 49% of h...
DAS: new arrangement.
Countrywide Insurance Marketing has come to a new arrangement with DAS, giving all members access to...
Brokers bemoan ongoing poor service.
Insurers are still failing to deliver a decent level of service, according to brokers attending a rou...