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News analysis: Brokers can choose their commissions (to a point)
This year, brokers have been given the opportunity to choose their commissions by two insurers.
News Analysis - Insurance 360: Arag voted best legal expenses insurer
Arag has been voted the best legal expenses insurer by brokers in a survey by PB's sister research unit Insurance 360.
Dual’s national business unit targets £50m book
Dual’s national business unit has confirmed ambitious growth plans to coincide with its 5th anniversary.
New run-off scheme launched
Tenet has released a new run-off cover scheme which it claims will plug a hole in the professional indemnity insurance market.
Dual launches packaged office product
Dual Corporate Risks has announced the launch of a packaged office product as the inaugural product from its new property and casualty division.
RBSI hires former Co-op MD as finance director
Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance (RBSI) has announced that John Reizenstein will be joining its executive team as finance director, subject to Financial Services Authority approval.
AA warns flood defence cuts could make hundreds of thousands of homes uninsurable
AA Insurance is urging the Government not to cut spending on flood defences in its autumn comprehensive spending review.
Allianz hires operations manager for motor claims
Allianz has announced the appointment of Alan Collins to operations manager for motor claims.
Polly C - the hottest insurance gossip
A healthy dose of irony is good for the soul and Polly found her fix in Zurich's misfortunes this month.
News review: August
Axa Insurance customer experience director, Paul Meehan, expressed interest in filling the senior management vacancy in the company's commercial division.
Accurate risk pricing: On the nose
Insurers are increasingly turning to technology to help them underwrite their risks more accurately. Liz McMahon uncovers the key to getting the pricing right.
Insurers' PPI responsibility: Accepting responsibility
Against the backdrop of the recent FSCS levy increases, Martin Friel asks what responsibility insurers have for making sure products sold on their behalf are done so properly.
Reportage - long-tail liability: Breathe easy
Neil Hackett advises how brokers can assist in the handling of long-tail liability claims for lung diseases such as pneumoconioses.
Reportage - cyber liability: Reducing online exposure
As websites and e-trading take a more prominent role in every facet of business, online liability risks grow. Edward Murray asks how the market can keep up to date with the exposures and how brokers should best advise their clients.
Reportage - solicitors' PI: The domino effect
The much publicised troubles of Quinn and its solicitors' PI book have had a knock-on effect on other providers in the market. Liz McMahon asks what opportunities and responsibilities for brokers now exist.
Regional power hour - Newcastle: Talent scouting
This month's power hour, held in Newcastle upon Tyne and sponsored by Ecclesiastical, discusses the level of talent in the industry and how new recruits of a high calibre can be attracted. Louise Meeson reports
Interview: The almost great and the good
Martin Friel talks to Theo Duchen and David McDonald about how Acturis is over-delivering in professionalism and efficiency in a bid to achieve greatness
Editor's comment - September 2010
So the private motor sector has finally been revealed as the insanely priced kamikaze market that many in the industry always thought it was.
Your letters: Open letter to the ABI, FSA and FOS
We have it all: human rights, data protection, statutory obligations, regulatory regimes, codes of conduct, corporate governance, rules of engagement, terms of reference, standards for this, standards for that and, ah yes, let's not forget, 'complaints…
Fresh hopes web revamp will boost its home book
Fresh Insurance has announced an online makeover as part of its aim to increase its share of the home insurance market during the next year.
PIA head urges insurers to embrace global risks
Insurers' conservative attitudes towards risks outside the UK is holding back ambitious plans to establish multi quote-and-buy systems worldwide, according to liability broker Professional Insurance Agents (PIA).
Data hub launch discloses new pricing detail to non-direct market
Coversure and Fortis are among those that have committed to using a new data hub that aims to allow brokers to compete on a level playing field with direct writers.
IFB meeting expected to move CUE plans forward
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) is confident it will move a step closer to creating a Claims Underwriting Exchange (CUE) travel database following its latest member meeting.
London households most likely to claim for home theft
A study pinpointing the top 20 UK postcode claim hotspots has found that London households are the most likely to make a claim for home theft.