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Vacancy remains for Axa chief
Axa Insurance is still searching for a new commercial lines chief following a restructure of its UK business.
Product launch: Clear Private Car on Open GI
Allianz Retail's Clear Private Car product has launched with Open GI in the latest stage of its roll-out.
Risk management/claims: Lord Young slams 'unnecessary' low-hazard risk assessments
Lord Young has called for a stop to low-hazard health and safety risk assessments as part of his review into UK compensation culture.
Product launch: RSA-Volvo union renewed
RSA has renewed its affinity partnership with Volvo Car UK.
Agenda: Commission disclosure
The European Union (EU) is now putting together its consultation paper on a revised Insurance Mediation Directive and this will include their views on commission disclosure.
Polly C - the hottest insurance gossip
Claim Experts' latest board appointment has made Polly chuckle.
Aritsa targets South Wales growth with new hire
Commercial lines underwriting specialist Arista Insurance has appointed Mark Chichester as senior underwriter to help develop the South Wales market and enhance its technical proposition to brokers in the area.
Insurance group secures major Lloyd's backing
The Prince's Trust Insurance Leadership Group has secured the backing of Lloyd's in a major funding deal for the next three years.
Axa's UK personal motor revenues up 35% in first nine months 2010
Property & casualty revenues in the first nine months of 2010 were up 0.7% to €21.4bn across the group at Axa. The UK & Ireland saw a 1.4% increase compared to the same period of 2009 to €3.2bn.
PB Week: Learning with the young
Recently my 14 year-old nephew came to the CII for a week's work experience, writes Alasdair Stewart, head of business development, general insurance, at the Chartered Insurance Institute.
APC launches fast food insurance offering in Ireland
Commercial insurance underwriting agency APC is launching a bespoke takeaways product designed to cover single or multiple shops and fast food franchises trading in Ireland.
Brit could be used as platform for acquisitions
A source close to the insurer bought earlier today, subject to shareholder approval, said purchases could be on the cards in the medium term
UK personal motor market to remain unprofitable for further five years
The UK personal motor market will remain unprofitable until at least 2015, according to a new survey of leading UK insurers by Towers Watson.
Brit reaches agreement at £888m with bidders
Insurer set to be sold to private equity houses
Broker claims debate
Claims are a thorny issue at the best of times but when credit-hire organisations and accident management companies are involved, it seems everyone gets prickly.
Without innovation insurance industry will falter, according to CII debate
Industry experts at a round table event hosted by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) agree that the entrepreneurial spirit exists in smaller regional businesses but that larger corporations were slower to act.
Liberty boosts UK property team with hires from QBE and CNA
Liberty International Underwriters Europe (LIU Europe), a division of Liberty Mutual Group, has made three new regional appointments to its UK property insurance team.
Insurance Age blog: Disgruntled from Barnet
While our traditional British reserve, or some might say apathy, means that we haven't followed our French neighbours in taking to the streets, setting a few cars alight and literally running riot, I don't think it will be long before the full impact of…
Transactor embarks on quotation enhancement trial
Transactor Global Solutions is trialling the use of key external databases in a bid to enhance the quotation process in private motor, motor cycle, commercial vehicle, and household insurance.
A fifth of CII members fear redundancy
The Chartered Insurance Institutes's (CII) annual skills survey shows that 21% of members were worried about losing their job, compared with 26% in 2009.
NIG appoints two underwriting managers
NIG has appointed two new underwriting managers for their motor trade and property owners lines of business.
Meehan considering his options
Paul Meehan, formerly customer services director of Axa, is on the move.
Spending Review 2010: National Friendly calls on private healthcare sector to prove its worth
Richard Sear, CEO of National Friendly, said the organisation was pleased the coalition Government is standing by its commitment to protect the NHS from spending cuts but said that the strain on front-line services is only just beginning.
Quinn bidders fear outstanding claims, according to reports
The Irish Independent has reported that several of the five bidders for Quinn are reluctant to buy the whole company fearing the outstanding claims and liabilities caused by previous management.