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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...
Broker Direct boosts EDI
Broker Direct has gone live with new business and mid term adjustments on New Millennium Technologies...
RSA takes control of PCS
Royal and Sun Alliance has paid around £3m for Independent Insurance's commercial loss adjusting arm ...
Aon digs deep for Welsh miners
Broker giant Aon has opened new offices in Cardiff, to speed up the processing of Welsh miners' indus...
Four ex-Independent join Chubb Europe
Four members of Independent Insurance's accident and health underwriting team have joined Chubb Europ...
Fears hinders insurers' e-commerce development
Computer Sciences Corporation has found that insurance companies are lagging behind in e-commerce bec...
GISC warns members to play by the rules
The General Insurance Standards Council has written to its members, reminding them that they cannot r...
Western Provident offers PMI boost
The Western Provident Association has launched a new way to finance private hospital treatment, calle...
Axa shows GISC compliance with product relaunch
Axa Insurance has relaunched its commercial package policy Business Plan Plus. The product is now t...
Towergate vets Dickinsons portfolio
Towergate Underwriting Group has made its third acquisition of the year, buying the veterinary busine...
Bell & Co goes through MBO
Derby-based Bell & Co Insurance Brokers has undergone a management buy-out by employees Darrell Black...
Liquidators sort through Independent
Independent Insurance would have run out of money "in a couple of months" if it had carried on tradin...
Carruthers launches 'the distributor of the future'.
Ex-Eastgate Group director Max Carruthers has unveiled his new venture, Rubicon Corporation, providin...
Serious Fraud Office poised to check Independent
The Serious Fraud Office is poised to launch an investigation into Independent Insurance, following t...
Two new offices for Fusion
Fusion, the commercial insurance facility targeting regional brokers, has opened two new offices in B...
Michael Stimpson joins Mardon
Yacht and leisure craft insurance underwriting agents Mardon Insurance Brokers (UK) has acquired Mich...
Independent calls provisional liquidators
Provisional liquidators have been appointed to Independent Insurance Company, the Financial Services ...