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MMA up to speed with EDI.
MMA Insurance has completed full cycle EDI development with software house Cheshire Datasystems. The...
Exclusive - Online start-ups hit the market.
A wave of new start-up internet intermediaries is about to hit the personal lines market. Profession...
Appointment at Groupama Commercial.
Groupama Commercial has appointed David Gayton (above) as sales and distribution manager. Mr Gayton ...
CETA's free broker facility goes online.
The Central Electronic Trading Agency has launched PReMIUM, a free internet portal which gives broke...
Bupa launches advertising campaign.
Bupa has launched an advertising campaign to promote its critical illness cover. Running in national...
MMA announces premium increases totalling 12.5%.
MMA, formerly known as Norman Insurance, has announced its second increase on motor trade road risks...
The right medicine.
Many general insurance brokers shy away from private medical insurance because of its perceived complexity. However, Diane Smyth says that sales of PMI policies are set to grow and brokers should looking to make their mark in the group sector.
Disability: handle with care.
Disability issues are hot news, and with a mountain of legislation to protect the disabled against unfair discrimination, insurance professionals need to be aware of the potential pitfalls.
Brokers scoop top awards.
Excellence in the insurance industry was celebrated last month at the biggest ever British Insurance...
Risks in cyberspace.
Internet use among businesses is growing at phenomenal speed. Rob Wotherspoon outlines some of the potential cyber risks facing insureds and assesses to what extent current commercial wordings address these.
Working relationships.
Last month's Willis Commercial Network Conference in Portugal saw a great deal of action in the conference hall, as well as on the golf course. The key theme was the need for brokers and insurers to work together. Tim Collison was there.
The price is right: valuing a portfolio.
Q: My colleague and I currently run a specialist portfolio within a brokerage. We wish to buy this portfolio, but have no idea of its value. Can you help?
Pay future is bonuses.
Insurance salaries are now so close to investment banking levels that insurers should look to profit...
Northern lights.
Martin Hill and Philip Battersby are the team responsible for taking SMG onto better things. Diane Smyth hears how these two bright sparks took a good, but unprofitable, broker and turned it into a lucrative venture.
SVB introduces mid net worth policy for executives.
SVB Underwriting Services has launched a household policy aimed specifically at senior executives ap...
Growing pains.
The risks associated with genetically modified crops have dominated the headlines in recent months. The problem for farmers, insurers and brokers is that the risks are, as yet, unquantifiable, says Adrian Leonard.
ABI tackles genome fears.
The completion of the map of the human genome has again raised Parliamentary fears over how insurers...
Groupama forms e-advice team.
Groupama has created a new team to help brokers exploit e-commerce. Headed by Ken Hutchinson, ele...
Alan Boswell: takeover £12.
Expanding East Anglian broker Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers has bought Norfolk-based intermediary I...
Appointment at Holman Insurance Brokers.
Holman Insurance Brokers has taken on Glenn Bremerman as divisional director of Holman Motor Facilit...
Appointment at Collegiate Management Services.
Claudia Goodridge (left) has been made underwriting assistant at Collegiate Management Services. She...
Redundancy: who is liable?
Q: I am about to sell my business to another broker and under the terms of the deal, only the book of business is being transferred. I am going to have to make all my staff redundant. Can you advise me how to word the redundancy notice.
Drake cover: sink or swim?
Drake policyholders will be told this month whether their policies are going to be cancelled, follow...
Swiss Re: insurers must take stock.
Swiss Re's sixth annual report on the UK non-life market warns that the personal lines market is fai...