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b2binsure launches.
Windsor Insurance Brokers and Minicomputer Commercial Software are set to launch a joint wholesaling ...
Mike Dodd calls for hard facts from ASPs.
Mike Dodd, business development director at Sirius Group, has spoken out against the 'razzmatazz' of...
Brokers: quick recovery after Indie collapse.
Brokers are reporting a good recovery from the sudden demise of Independent, with many having alread...
Service with a smile.
Customers are becoming ever more demanding but the new CRM systems can provide the technology to serve their desires to them on a plate.
The ongoing saga of Independent's predictable fall.
The one good thing about a general election is that once the votes are counted and the new prime min...
DAS offers online quotation service.
Commercial Legal Expenses insurer DAS is set to launch an online quotation service for smaller broke...
Review self-regulation, don't scrap it.
The collapse of Independent Insurance has been followed by a wave of panic that this will be the nai...
Adrian Flux goes legal.
Norfolk-based broker Adrian Flux Insurance Group has set up two schemes facilities with Lawclub Lega...
Playing the waiting game.
The collapse of the Solicitors Indemnity Fund has led to a period of uncertainty for solicitors. Simon Threadgold says it will take a while for things to settle down as firms jockey for position.
Playing it cool.
Mark Boon talks to Diane Smyth about his fresh approach towards insurance broking and explains how he feels the image of the industry could be brightened up.
Boswell acquires Beccles.
Alan Boswell Insurance Services has acquired the Beccles Insurance Centre, marking the Norwich-based...
Hiscox gets HNW team.
Hiscox has recruited the regional high net worth underwriting team of Independent Insurance, having ...
Axa buys www. business-risk.com.
AXA Insurance has bought Independent Insurance's ex-broker communications website www.business-risk....
NIG opts for outsourcing.
NIG is to outsource the administration of its personal lines instalment scheme to Finsure, its premi...
E-Commerce Watch.
Internet software house insurE-com has launched insur-E.claim, a claims portal. insurE-com says the ...
Tackling the e-future challenge.
The e-revolution is likely to radically change the way insurance companies do business, but utility must take precedence over novelty.
Opening doors.
Just as the automotive industry has discovered that much assembly work is better done by outside specialists, so insurers are finding that outsourcing core functions can cut costs.
Insurance recruiter expands as business booms
Specialist recruitment firm Alexander Lloyd is expanding its insurance recruitment arm, six months af...
Broker strikes Ace deal as NU withdraws from another market
Sporting Insurance Services, the specialist Gun Trade insurance subsidiary of broker Stuart Alexander...
Budget goes commercial
Insurance intermediary The Budget Group has launched Budget Commercial Insurance Services. Budget C...
CIIG gets the ball rolling
The Creditors of Independent Insurance will prepare a class action as early as August if an initial f...
Harrison-Beaumont taps into IT
Harrison-Beaumont (Insurance Brokers) are acting as the managing agents for Milo, a new policy underw...
GISC forced to delay F42
The General Insurance Standards Council has been forced to put back its deadline for the start of tra...
Landau Manson takes up the Gauntlet
London based specialist insurance brokers Landau Manson and Partners has acquired the "Gauntlet' trad...