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Norwich Union and Allianz buy 'to protect' Jelf's independence
The investment arms of insurers Norwich Union and Allianz Cornhill have bought 5.1% and 5% stakes re...
Appointment at Davies Liability
Davies Liability has promoted Jason Miles to the position of director. ...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill
Allianz Cornhill has appointed Eileen Flynn as national business manager. Flynn will be managing the...
USwitch.com launches content strategy
USwitch.com has launched a content strategy incorporating increased editorial and user-generated con...
IT system introduces fresh strategy for PPI compliance
Technology could help insurers become compliant with new payment protection insurance (PPI) regulati...
CII opens office in India
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is to open an office in Mumbai, its first in India. A head o...
Ark announces Lloyd's syndicate success
Ark Syndicate Management has launched as Lloyd's Syndicate 4020, after taking just 11 weeks to set u...
Valuation division for QuestGates
QuestGates has launched a valuations division offering buildings, contents, plant, machinery and IT ...
Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters launches website
The Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters has launched a website, www.cila.co.uk. The site will incl...
ChoiceQuote opens two new offices
ChoiceQuote Insurance, the Liverpool-based taxi insurance specialist, has opened two satellite offic...
Sponsored skydive in memeory of Gary Hyndman
To mark the anniversary of the death of Insurance Age's reporter, Gary Hyndman, in March 2006, 11 of...
Annual review by Cornell Consulting
In its annual review of the UK commercial market, Cornell Consulting has estimated that 20 businesse...
Pre-tax profit for Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical announced a pre-tax profit of £77.1m for 2006, the second-highest in its history. The...
Giles Insurance opens two new offices
Giles Insurance has opened two offices in Cardiff and Chester, taking the total number of its networ...
Towergate Underwriting goes live
Towergate Underwriting has gone live on Open GI's universal e-commerce solution, X-Stream. The move ...
Aggregator seeks closer ties with brokers
New aggregator site Onlyinsurance.co.uk has confirmed it is looking to acquire brokers. Andrew Geor...
Highway launches new products
Highway has launched its Choice Private Car and Choice Commercial Vehicle products on the Acturis fu...
Jelf Group sees double with insurers' move to buy shares
Allianz Cornhill and Aviva have both bought stakes worth a total of 10.1% in broker consolidator Jel...
Confused.com launches new search engine
Confused.com has launched a new travel insurance search engine. The service will be able to return i...
Biba launches self-service portal
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has launched a self-service portal to allow its me...
Biba rolls out crisis control scheme
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has rolled out a Crisis Control scheme to its memb...
Directors to face jail over fraudulent activity
Two former directors of Doncaster-based brokerage Preston Whiteside have been jailed for defrauding ...
Thomas, Carroll moves into health & safety
The Thomas, Carroll Group has moved into health & safety (H&S) and employment law services with the ...
FSA sets out reform proposals
The Financial Services Authority has set out proposals to reform the funding of the Financial Servic...