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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...
Naivety threatens to scupper net success.
Those brokers and intermediaries that watched the direct motor market mushroom on the back of Direct...
Weather Direct means rain need not stop pay.
Lloyd's broker JH Buckenham is behind a new venture aimed at the events industry. Called Weather Dir...
HSBC Select launches online cover facility.
HSBC Select (UK) is targeting the UK's 3.7 million small businesses with the launch of a new interne...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has appointed Richard Tricky as technical controller, liability. He wil...
Appointment at Colonnade Insurance Brokers.
Ian Bullock has been promoted to director of marketing at Colonnade Insurance Brokers, having been h...
Awarding experiences.
The recent BIA awards saw the great and the good from the industry being rewarded for their efforts. GISC, however, wins no awards for unfairly treating those whose livelihood depends on insurance.
Leading insurers expected to steal the show.
Over 60% of intermediaries believe they will be trading with fewer than 10 insurers over the coming ...
PB Online give away Pocket Mail.
This month, courtesy of Allianz Cornhill, PB Online is giving away three Pocket Mail Personal Digita...