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Up close and personal
A team player with complete belief in his staff, John O'Roarke talks to Michelle Worvell about how the general insurance market has changed, regrets he has had along the way and his vision to bring LV into the public spotlight
A trip down memory lane
Tony Cornell takes a retrospective look at how the insurance industry - particularly the broking sector - has changed over the past 30 years, since Thatcher's reign and, of course, the launch of Insurance Age
Ecclesiastical admits expansion plans but denies Lycetts rumour
Ecclesiastical has denied market rumours that it aims to take over broker Lycetts after it became a ...
Plumetting income-rate fastest in more than 25 years
The UK financial services sector has been hit by record drops in income levels while business volume...
Report urges insurance industry to crack down on speed culprits
The insurance industry must tackle the endemic culture of speeding in the UK by treating offenders w...
RSA job slash is Bristol's biggest recession blow
RSA has announced that it will close its Bristol office by 2012 as part of an efficiency drive to sa...
Decreasing rates could put future at risk
Decreasing rates on private medical insurance (PMI) policies could put the long-term future of the s...
Crime soars in desperate times
Incidents of arson in business premises spiked 23% last year, marking a rise in crime that is likely...
Ninth place for Giles
Giles has made ninth place in The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoppers Profit Track 100. Earlier this...
Fortis broker partners take part in mini-fleet product trial
Fortis Insurance has begun piloting a new mini-fleet product among 60 of its broker partners as part...
Arc model offers brokers greater revenue opportunity and control
Arc Legal Assistance has developed a non-fault motor legal expenses product to enable brokers to max...
Mid-corporate sector bears cost burden of poor communication
A recent study has found that a lack of co-operation between insurers and brokers in the mid-corpora...
Axa comes bottom of the insurer league in IIB service level survey
Axa has ranked last in the Institute of Insurance Brokers' (IIB) service level poll - falling margin...
NIG proposes office closures and reducing headcount by 130
NIG has announced a proposal to reduce the number of offices it has from 18 to 10, with a net reduct...
Points of view
To coincide with this year's Biba conference, Insurance Age has once again conducted its annual broker survey. Here are some of your most notable opinions
Redundancy spurs redeployment
New figures have shown that staff redeployment levels across the insurance sector have more than dou...
NU's rebranding goes live with one-stop-shop Aviva website
Aviva has officially launched its new broker portal website, the first site to be rebranded under th...
Stick to what you know: knitting
In Tom Peter's book, In Search of Excellence, one of his eight themes for achieving excellence is 's...
Axa reshuffles commercial business
Axa has embarked upon a shake up of the leadership of its broker-facing commercial business.
Loss adjuster makes key senior management changes
Crawford & Company UK has appointed Mike Woolston to its UK executive committee.
NU apologises for conflicting messages
Norwich Union's (NU) insurance chief has apologised for "conflicting messages" over job cuts.