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Trinder - new venture in Assitalia's wake.
Richard Trinder, general insurance manager of Assitalia's Birmingham branch, is looking to retain a ...
Eastgate forced to seek £7m boost.
Eastgate has been forced to go to its shareholders for a cash injection of £7m because of the underp...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has taken on Myra Fleming as medical case manager. She joins from Crawf...
Oxford given money pledge by 500 brokers.
Approximately 500 brokers have agreed to invest in a new broker-funded personal lines syndicate and ...
HSBC takes on Gladiator.
Direct insurer Admiral has transferred the administration of Gladiator, its non-standard intermediar...
Appointment at Ward Evans Group.
Ward Evans Group has made eight appointments and two promotions at its York office. David Atkinson (...
Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Co.
Lyndon Willshire has been appointed corporate business manager and Richard Scott Smith takes the new...
Marcus Hearn offers team cover.
In response to the rise in the number of amateur sports teams, Marcus Hearn has put together a polic...
Folgate goes regional.
Folgate has opened its first regional office, following the Poole-based insurer's decision to specia...
InsurE-com signs up brokers.
InsurE-com, the new broker market Internet trading initiative, has received more than 280 broker reg...
Bland to retire from CII.
David Bland will retire as director general of the Chartered Insurance Institute on 9 December, his ...
Court grounds high flyers.
Business and pleasure do not mix. This was the recent message from the High Courts following a travel insurance claim resulting from the helicopter crash in which Matthew Harding died.
Graham Gomm, Managing director, Graham Gomm Insurance Brokers.
Q: What was your best decision or deal? Deciding 30 years ago to leave a safe job with an insuranc...
Motor and Household Premium Changes since July 1994.
Motor insurance premiums have risen steeply in the first three months of 2000, according to the AA's...
Retail therapy.
Insurers are fighting hard for their market share in the retail sector, and in an area where rates are starting to rise, e-broking is beginning to play a more important role in securing business, says Simon Threadgold.
Send in a specialist.
Brokers in the high net worth sector need to ensure their clients' homes are adequately insured. A specialist appraiser is crucial in the accurate assessment of the sum insured for both buildings and contents, says Bill Baker.
Problems again at annual conference.
It would appear that, once again, problems with hotels provided light relief at BIBA's annual confer...
Experian launches insurance internet package
Information solutions provider Experian has launched an Internet-enabled insurance quotation system d...
Road Runner survey highlights brokers' technophobia
A disturbing 73% of brokers and intermediaries do not have access to the Internet at their place of b...
Insureright attracts enough brokers for licence
Andrew Paddick claims to have signed up 5% of the personal lines broker market to his Internet initia...
Camberford Law acquires EJ Welton
Insurance broker, Camberford Law has acquired EJ Welton and Company from the Willis Group, marking it...
IBRC to continue as self-regulatory body
In a direct challenge to the authority of the General Insurance Standards Council, The Institute of I...
QBE intervenes in Limit merger
The proposed merger between Lloyd's syndicates, Limit and Wellington has been thrown into uncertainty...
Bennetts goes live with online facility
Bennetts Insurance Specialists' online quote facility has gone live following an official launch by m...