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Ecclesiastical Insurance has enlisted the services of disaster recovery firm ISS Ark & General to ens...
Insurers to set own terrorism rates from 1 January 2003
Commercial property clients face hefty price increases for terrorism insurance from 1 January 2003....
Axa Art sponsors Asian Art in London.
Axa Art has sponsored Asian Art in London for the second year running. Adam Golder, chief executive ...
Wickham calls for more flood action
Insurers need to be more proactive in dealing with floods, according to John Wickham, head of prope...
Appointment at Allen & Allen
Allen & Allen has appointed Giles Ashley as general manager, Tony Christmas has been promoted to gr...
Norwich Union extends its hospitality with new policy
Norwich Union has launched a commercial product aimed at landlords, restaurateurs and hoteliers in ...
First six months of 2002 bring record profits for Sirius
Sirius Financial Solutions has achieved record profits for the first six months of 2002. The so...
Banks make bid to develop commercial lines
Commercial brokers now face competition from new intermediaries such as banks, building societies a...
Scottish BIBA conference.
Hamish Ritchie, chairman of the British Insurance Brokers' Institute, took up his new position with ...
ABI agreement promises flood cover from members
The Association of British Insurers has stated that its members will continue to provide flood insu...
Appointment at BDML (Holdings).
Tony Lancaster has been appointed to the board of BDML (Holdings) as a non-executive director follow...
Employment activity in the South-east.
Job assignments for insurance workers in the South-east were 4% higher in July than over the previous...
Alexander Forbes acquires K&H Insurance.
Broker Alexander Forbes has expanded further into the Irish market, with the acquisition of the insu...
Getting the industry act together.
With regards to the Callery v Gray case, there may have been last minute doubts but now, two years o...
Making a few adjustments.
It has been all change in the loss adjusting world, with the Woolf reforms and the demise of Miller Fisher leaving their mark. Benedict Burke tells Diane Smyth that the future looks bright, however, with loss adjusters expanding their business and…
Management clinic questioned.
In the July issue of Professional Broking, Peter Staddon answered a management clinic question regar...
Peter Staddon defends his corner.
Recently, I raised the issue of employers' liability and the placement of cover. I referred to the f...
Groupama: new portfolio will unite healthcare and commercial
Groupama Insurances is aiming a portfolio of new healthcare products at commercial insurance brokers...
Norwich Union loses appeal in Callery v Gray case.
The House of Lords has dismissed Norwich Union's appeal on both conditional fee agreement success an...
Shameful cherry-picking of Standard Life Bank ASU cover.
With effect from 10 July 2002, Standard Life Bank is terminating its existing accident, sickness and...
NU talks flooding at conference.
Norwich Union is to take a stand for the first time at the Local Government Association Conference i...
Axa plans major shake-up.
Axa is shaking up the way it does business with brokers, after its announcement of 700 staff cuts th...
Appointment at Wilby.
Halifax-based insurance broker Wilby has made a string of appointments. Vincent Claxton, Jayne Moss ...
Another industry blunder.
The insurance industry's handling of the claims for asbestos-related mesothelioma has been one clumsy mistake after another, which has only served to further tarnish its reputation.