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Premium Credit plays down Electra Partners flotation consideration
Premium Credit has written to its entire broker client base to inform them that it may be sold or flo...
Liability cap to hit motor market hard.
The liability crisis rolls on and brokers that think they have escaped so far may be in for a surpri...
Website for Chaufferplan.
Aon Private Clients and Longford Insurance Schemes have launched a new website - www.chauffeurplan-a...
AL puts Atlas on the map.
Corporate credit risks are being targeted by Alexander Forbes via credit insurance specialist Atlas ...
Swiss Life evaluations.
Specialist protection provider Swiss Life has closed to new individual business and is currently ev...
Soft Machine features kinetic sculptures.
Soft Machine, Hiscox's latest exhibition, features kinetic sculptures and art works by Hungarian-bor...
Charities criticise insurer inability to provide cover.
Charities have welcomed the Home Office's latest research paper on the difficulties finding insurance...
Argyll buy to be merged with previous acquisitions.
The Argyll Insurance Group has made its third acquisition in Kent, buying broker Walker Satterford Pa...
Arc allows access to legal costs assistance.
Private landlords can now access legal costs insurance from Arc Legal Assistance. The package gives...
Wasted time on wasted costs.
Courts still cannot agree on whether wasted costs orders are penal sanctions or compensatory remedies.
Antur acquisition.
Last month PB asserted that Antur Group had acquired Old Oak Insurance Brokers, PB July, p5. In fact ...
Henderson healthcare.
Henderson Insurance Brokers has launched a specialist healthcare division in Leeds. A specialist team...
Rowland Gaskell, Director, Adam & Gaskell.
Q: What was your best decision or deal? Having been told I was five stone too light and five yards...
CII confirms list of conference speakers.
John Tiner, managing director of the Financial Services Authority, Sarah Wilson, FSA director of high...
The noble art.
Focusing on high-volume lines has changed the profile of Berry Birch & Noble, says Paul Harrison, and has made the company less vulnerable. Nicolle Farthing reports.
Am I home and dry for FSA regulation?
Q: I run a directly regulated independent financial adviser and a general business within my limited company brokerage. Do I need to worry about Financial Services Authority regulation?
BWP no longer the Lloyd's route for BNL non-PI.
The Broker Network's London non-professional indemnity business will no longer go to Lloyd's through ...
Border control.
With regulatory changes breaking down the boundaries between general insurance and the life protection market, brokers need not be fenced out of the mortgage protection sector, says Ronnie Martin.
Optoma makes push into general insurance.
Residential mortgages processor Optoma Broker Solutions is branching out to general insurance produc...
Association publishes technical briefing
The Association of British Insurers has published a technical briefing on the fire performance of s...
Appointment at UnumProvident.
UnumProvident has made Andy Cross (left) director of human resources. Cross formerly worked as train...
BIBA and CNA D&O solution.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has teamed up with CNA Insurance to introduce a web-based...
Appointment at Aon Risk Consulting.
Aon Risk Consulting has made Steve Barnett and Hans-Kristian Bryn chairman and deputy chairman, resp...
Doing the homework.
Favourable legislation has led to increasing numbers of freelance professionals working from home. David Fanning says that as domestic household policies do not usually provide sufficient cover, brokers must ensure homeworkers have an accurate…