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Woodstock Insurance Brokers acquires general insurance business
Woodstock Insurance Brokers has acquired the general insurance business of Jack Dent Insurance Assoc...
Crawford moves from RBS to take over at NIG
Charles Crawford is set to become managing director of NIG in March following Phil Bunker's resignat...
Towergate Underwriting restructures group operations
Towergate Underwriting has restructured its group operations to form one holding company and one ope...
Axa winds down direct arm in strategic return to brokers
Axa's major refocusing of its personal insurance business strategy will place emphasis on intermedia...
TBN acquires stake in Sharples & Co
The Broker Network (TBN) has announced that it has acquired a 51% stake in Sharples & Co Insurance B...
RK Harrison to offer e-quotes
RK Harrison is set to roll out a new online quote facility to help launch its standalone policy for ...
Misys FSA compliance module to go on general release in April
Misys has released details of its new Financial Services Authority (FSA) module, designed to enable ...
HSBC Insurance Brokers install new software
HSBC Insurance Brokers has installed new software designed to speed up the exchange of documents bot...
Allianz products made available on Stargate
Allianz Cornhill has opened up three of its commercial-lines products to brokers via the Sirius Star...
FSA publishes new rules
Standardised data must be included in advertisements referring to past performance under new rules p...
Fusion Insurance announces major increase in capacity
Fusion Insurance has announced a major increase in its capacity for 2004. The virtual insurer now ha...
Highway shows renewed interest in networks
Highway has confirmed it is talking to a number of broker networks - including Camberford Law's Netw...
GAB Robins appointed sole supplier
GAB Robins has been appointed the sole supplier of loss-adjusting services to Camberford Law's Netwo...
Insurance Age competition winner
The winner of last month's Insurance Age competition was Martin Cain of Routen Chaplin insurance bro...
Winlow steps in at Zurich as Owen pledges to return
Ian Owen, who has been replaced as managing director of Zurich UK Personal Finances by the incoming ...
Trafalgar Risk Management launches new insurance products
City of London insurance consultancy Trafalgar Risk Management has launched what it claims is the UK...
New report from Jardine Lloyd Thompson
Premiums for casualty insurance - particularly for liability categories such as directors' and offic...
Biba announces new appointments
Biba has announced two new appointments to bolster its regulation and compliance facility for broker...
January
Extended warranties reform The Government gave the green light to reform of the sale of extended wa...
imarket targeting 700 members by year end
Polaris says it is looking to expand its imarket insurer panel and have 700 brokers registered to th...
Dual to offer online pricing for intermediaries' D&O business
Insurer Dual Corporate Risks has launched an internet quotation engine exclusively for brokers, to p...
MMA launches mid net worth proposition
Intermediary-only insurer MMA has launched a new home insurance policy, MMA Lifestyle.
MMA first insurer to launch mid net worth on broker systems
Intermediary-only insurer MMA Insurance (MMA) has launched a new home insurance policy, MMA Lifestyle to complement and enhance its range of home products. It is designed for more affluent homeowners who have higher than average requirements, which are…
Insurance disks not the answer, says the AA
Calls for the compulsory display of insurance discs in car windscreens are misguided and will do nothing to tackle the growing problem of uninsured drivers, says the AA, as a private members’ Bill to introduce insurance discs is placed through Parliament.