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Open + Direct expands.
Belfast-based financial services company Open + Direct has acquired its fourth insurance broker. It ...
Appointment at Heath Lambert.
Heath Lambert has announced that Victor Wild has been promoted to the role of divisional director of...
BIBA: dissatisfaction continues.
Insurer's core service standards have not improved resulting in increasing broker dissatisfaction, a...
Swiss Life moves into health care arena
Group and individual insurance provider Swiss Life (UK) has acquired MTL Medical Services from Arriva...
Permanent sold to Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society
Equitable Life Assurance Company is to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary Permanent Insurance Company, ...
FSA finds joke hard to swallow
Insurance industry regulator the Financial Services Authority has disciplined nine employees after th...
Martin Wiggins joins Accidentcare
Martin Wiggins has joined customer services provider Accidentcare Group as head of business operation...
RFIB to undergo management buy out
The former management and senior staff of Robert Fleming Insurance Brokers have reached an agreement,...
FOS sets out new complaint regulations
The Financial Ombudsman Service has published its new complaint handling arrangements. They require...
Alexander Forbes continues acquisition spree
Alexander Forbes has made another acquisition, buying the general insurance business of Southampton-b...
David Pye secures more capacity
Pye syndicate 962, relaunched by former London & Edinburgh managing director David Pye at the beginni...
GISC unveils training rules
The General Insurance Standards Council has set out its rules on accreditation and monitoring of staf...
Appointments at Brockbank.
Brockbank has made a trio of new appointments. Nick Bonnar has been promoted to the position of acti...
RSA: Enterprise phase two.
Royal & SunAlliance is to extend Enterprise, its telephone-based facility for small business insuran...
Appointment at Bollington group.
Paul Varetto has been appointed as group administrator of the Bollington group. Mr Varetto has been ...
CII review warnings.
The Chartered Insurance Institute has warned the Financial Services Authority about the dangers of l...
Appointment at Cigna International.
Cigna International has hired Malcolm Wright as international sales consultant. Mr Wright joins the ...
Database to reduce uninsured drivers.
The Motor Insurers' Information Centre is to co-ordinate a database of individually insured motor ve...
Appointments at Beddis Hobbs.
Beddis Hobbs has made a string of promotions. Peter Beddis will become the group chief executive on ...
Pallet and Crisp join forces.
Former Independent Insurance assistant general managers Kevin Pallet and Geoff Crisp have confirmed ...
ARB plans expansion.
Dublin-based underwriting agency ARB has announced plans to expand into the UK, following the openin...
In with the new.
The introduction of new technologies may mean the premium finance sector will become more appealing to previously unconvinced brokers. David Fanning explains.
E-Commerce watch.
Lloyd's syndicate Zenith Insurance has launched a website at www.zenith-insurance. co.uk. The site p...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill.
Allianz Cornhill has hired Iain Boyd as personal lines sales manager. Mr Boyd was previously empl...