News
The industry has its say.
The Treasury has received a substantial response to its call for submissions on the future of the IBRC. Tim Collison considers how the trade bodies' arguments stack up on this crucial issue.
Towergate travel buy doubles group's GWP.
Towergate Underwriting Services has bought travel underwriting outfit Chase Parkinson, taking the to...
Royal & SunAlliance launches full-cycle commercial policy.
Royal & SunAlliance has gone live with a full-cycle commercial package product on Policy Master's GE...
Appointment at PoundGates.
PoundGates, the Ipswich-based insurance and risk management broker, has recently made three new appo...
Shop chains offered multiple benefits.
GAN Insurance has put together a package policy for retail chains, the fifth in its Trademark series...
Violent crime friendly.
Friend Indeed, the newly launched friendly society backed by victim of violent crime Lisa Potts (PB ...
Supermarket sweep?
Supermarkets are now offering financial products at your convenience. Frank Shaw looks at the impact this will have on the broker market in the first of a series of features based on research by the 'Across the Millennium' study.
Kestrel falls prey to fierce market.
Highway Motor Policies has pulled the plug on its Kestrel facility, blaming its inadequate performan...
David Worsfold.
International consolidation: what's that got to do with me ?' Quite a lot, with plenty of opportunities for the provincial and regional broker.
Orion eases claims.
Orion is issuing new policyholders with a 24-exposure camera in a bid to ease the claims process. Th...
Archer overhaul.
Following the appointments of Jeremy Adams as executive chairman and Michael Earp as managing direct...
No entry for Cornhill car fleet insurance.
I read with interest the article by Andrew Newman on the Motor Fleet market (p17-19) in the May edit...
Engineering sale.
HSB Haughton Engineering Insurance Services has acquired SGS-INSTAT, the inspection division of SGS ...
Towergate buys marine outfit.
Towergate Underwriting Services has bought specialist marine underwriting agency Carrington Internat...
Appointment at Davies Chartered Loss Adjusters.
Mark Ponking (above) has been appointed a full partner of Davies Chartered Loss Adjusters after 23 y...
Crowd control.
Fallout from the private motor sector looks set to continue as too many insurers chase too little business. Andrew Newman asks what lessons can be learned from those already forced out.
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Adam Gittins has joined Gloucester-based Ecclesiastical Insurance as strategic planning manager. He ...
Money is coming back into insurance.
Clearly, money is coming back into insurance. While the early 1990s saw companies reining back on co...
ASA direct mail verdict awaited.
Despite early claims of victory by Broker Direct over its complaint about Direct Line's recent maili...
Few prepared to undergo MULRA scrutiny.
Over the past few years, certain ULR companies have sought publicity for themselves by stating that ...
TIFCO defections.
Premium financing operation Transamerica Insurance Finance Company (TIFCO) has lost managing directo...
Strategic moves.
Traditionally, brokers have always had a lot of agencies in order to offer clients a wide range of policies. Jennifer Jarrett says that now is the time to be more strategic in your thinking.
Unprepared for EMU.
Less than 5% of insurance company IT managers in Europe have completed programmes for adapting to th...
Appointment at Lombard.
Lombard General Insurance has made a string of new appointments. Grant Whiskin has been made affinit...