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Appointment at QBE.
QBE has made Rosie Corless rehabilitation manager at Iron Trades. She joined from AIG Medical and Re...
Appointment at Lloyd's.
Lloyd's professional liability Syndicate 1204, part of Crowe, has appointed Garry Bright as class un...
Group PMI plans 'out of tune with social trends'.
Over half of all UK corporate private medical insurance plans discriminate against unmarried couples...
Gatekeeper for events.
SLE Worldwide and broker Alexander Forbes have joined forces to launch Gatekeeper, a personal accide...
Employee rights over the care of a dependant.
Q: Could someone please clarify the legal position in relation to employees taking time off to care ...
Appointment at Trenwick.
Trenwick has promoted Paul Tester to executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. He was...
Appointment at Primary.
Pete Blakeley and Judy Nugent have joined Primary as schemes underwriters. Joining from Independent,...
21st Century uses NHS Trust facilities.
21st Century Health Plans has become the latest private medical insurer to use the facilities of NHS...
Computer GISC guide.
Ecclesiastical has launched a computer-based learning program to provide intermediaries with a step-...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Smart & Cook has made Ken Popplewell managing director. He was previously group operations manager a...
Explaining GISC's intermediary status differentiations.
Q: Why has the General Insurance Standards Council differentiated between appointed agents, sub agen...
Premium finance: two new entrants.
Two companies are entering the UK's premium finance market. Premium First has been launched by finan...
E-Commerce Watch.
- CMG Admiral, part of global information and communications services group CMG, has found that thre...
H4L offers new benefits.
Healthcare 4 Life has added two new benefits to its '4 in 1' group PMI policy. The cover now include...
John Goodacre, Managing director, Fastnet Marine Insurance Services.
Q: What was your best decision or deal? A: Deciding not to continue with our agency at Independent...
Mining for gold.
Customer relationship management may be the catchphrase of the moment, but which systems offer brokers the best means of ensuring their databases work to their maximum potential, asks David Fanning.
Endsleigh: student products.
Online insurance intermediary insurancewide.com has joined forces with student-insurance specialists...
St Paul extends policies to include cyberliability.
St Paul International Insurance Company has developed two new e-risk covers and is in the process of...
Appointment at Aon.
John Drysdale has been recruited as director of executive development at Aon where he will work with...
The drive to succeed.
It is not enough to be as good as your peers, Allianz Cornhill's Andrew Torrance tells Diane Smyth, while explaining his determination to overtake them and to be known as the best in the field.
Ex-Indie director named deputy general manager of St Paul.
Andy Hawkes, the former director of Independent Insurance responsible for ground-breaking broker ini...
The Underwriter reassesses approach to new business.
Keith Rutter, chief executive of The Underwriter, has denied that the company has run out of capacit...
Appointment at Das.
Das has announced the appointment of Cheril Hughes as broker account executive covering South Wales ...
A frame of mind.
Photography is a complex area to insure, involving more than simply covering equipment, but it is a profitable one for brokers willing to take on a mediating and tailoring role, says Diane Smyth.