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Domestic difficulties.
Home assistance was originally introduced as an add-on to bolster home insurance sales, but it is now an integral part of buildings and contents policies, says Shona Cronin.
Stovers insures medicine cabinet for £160,000.
Stovers, one of the Towergate companies, last month insured a small medicine cabinet for £160,000. T...
Folgate pushes into new areas.
Folgate Insurance is planning to move into new areas of commercial lines business, including propert...
Appointment at Iron Trades.
Tony Sherman has been appointed finance director of Iron Trades. He will have responsibility for all...
Hanks: surprise move to Groupama.
Lloyd Hanks has resigned from his position of managing director at The General Network and moved acr...
Appointment at Holman Insurance Marketing.
Ian Sharpe has been appointed to handle the day-to-day running of Holman Marketing and will report t...
Appointment at Groupama.
Stephen Albutt (above) has been made head of the accident and health division at Groupama. He will b...
Zurich Commercial unveils new process.
Zurich Commercial has unveiled a new flood-handling process which focuses predominantly on pre-empti...
Loss teams for Crawford.
Crawford has put together a loss management service which brings together many different areas of ex...
Terry Wellard.
Competitive pressures should be raising service standards in the industry, but today's insurers are fighting a losing battle.
Appointment at MiniBusPlus.
Matthew Porter, previously customer support manager at MiniBusPlus, has been promoted to electronic ...
Rehab campaign attracts support.
The industry has begun to throw its weight behind the Code of Practice on Rehabilitation, launched a...
Cox Lee takeover.
Walsall broker Cox Lee has furthered its expansion programme with the acquisition of local firm Rees...
Appointment at Axa.
Axa has appointed Lisa Walden as broker communications manager. She joins the company from Maritz Co...
Homefront.
While advances in technology mean that more people are now working from home, the market for homeworking insurance is still quite limited. Shona Cronin explains.
New mobile phone insurance launched.
Stuart Alexander, has teamed up with Phonesure Marketing to launch a new mobile phone insurance sche...
Irish boost for CGU.
CGU has boosted its presence in the Irish market with the acquisition of the Hibernian Group for £34...
Financing a winner.
Premium finance in personal lines is proving to be a growth market. It is important that brokers do not neglect its substantial income-generating opportunities, says David Fanning.
OFT clears health insurers of anti-competition charge.
The private health insurance market has been cleared of anti-competitive behaviour, following the pu...
Exclusive - Zenith aims for greater heights.
Lloyd's motor syndicate Zenith is planning to expand into other areas of personal lines and ultimate...
Appointment at Wilby Insurance Brokers.
Bob Brownlee has been appointed managing director of the Halifax-based Wilby Insurance Brokers. Mr B...
Admiral buyout.
PXRE has been appointed as the Lloyd's managing agency for Admiral Insurance Serv-ices, following th...
CSM restructuring.
Crowe Syndicate Manage-ment, part of the Crowe Group, will cease writing non-marine property bus-ine...
Who will pick up the bill?
The ULR market has long complained about the costs of credit hire. Steve Banner says there is now a growing shift towards insurance-backed schemes rather than credit hire arrangements.