E-Trading
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...
Aon launches fleet service.
Aon Risk Services has launched a new fleet motor risk management consultancy service. Operating on a...
Bennetts expansion.
Bennetts GB is expanding its direct division with a flagship call centre in Worcester, due to open m...
Lacklustre summer.
Despite the fact that we are having a typically lacklustre summer, it would appear that some in the ...
Churchill to launch net marketing campaign.
Churchill Insurance has begun a programme to overhaul its presence on the internet, which will see t...
InsurE-com and Cover.net team up in net venture.
InsurE-com has gone into partnership with Cover.Net in its bid to provide brokers with an online alt...
Hunting out a marketeer.
Q: We want to recruit a telephone marketeer for a new product campaign to generate sales leads for us. Could you advise us on what type of personality and skills profile we need to aim for?
E-commerce Watch.
People's Choice, the motor insurance telebroker, has launched a website. The site guarantees it w...
Is thin client technology the less expensive answer to ensuring
Thin client technology (TCT) has been around for some time, but it is now becoming more readily avai...
Elf's in your garden.
Elf at home, the independent gas supplier to the new homes market, has launched a household insuranc...
New team offers solicitors' PI.
Premium finance house Singer & Friedlander has teamed up with Heath Lambert to provide a funding fac...