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CII annual conference.
The Chartered Insurance Institute is to hold its annual conference in Birmingham on 7-9 October, und...
Any time, any place.
With holidaymakers becoming ever more adventurous, they can fall ill or be injured in the remotest of places. Tim Collison looks at how the medical assistance process copes with this.
Experian's Polaris initiative in testing.
Experian is now well under way with the testing of its central mainframe system - The Insurance On-l...
High society.
High net worth policies are not just the preserve of the aristocracy. Shona Cronin says there are rich pickings out there for wise brokers.
Diamond is the best friend of 150 brokers.
A total of 150 brokers have signed up for Diamond, Countrywide's commercial lines trading system. Th...
Eagle Star tunes its engine.
Eagle Star has produced a new combined engineering policy called Esichoice, which according to David...
IGI rental policy prevents need for big deposit.
IGI Insurance's has gone live with a rental guarantee policy aimed at the commercial and retail prop...
Appointment at Royal SunAlliance Engineering.
Margaret Shaughnessy has been made human resources manager at Royal SunAlliance Engineering, where s...
Appointment at Lombard General.
Andrew Whiley has been appointed as Lombard General Insurance's new personal injury claims manager a...
Appointment at Columbus.
John Parkinson has been made managing director of Columbus Direct Travel Insurance. He previously de...
Axa installs new property team.
AXA Provincial has poached three key underwriters from ITT London & Edinburgh to create a new proper...
Complete car care.
Composite Legal Expenses' Total Motor Care is being billed as a product that exceeds the scope of st...
Appointment at Avon Insurance.
Bill Atkinson (above) has been promoted to area manager (North) at Avon Insurance, replacing the rec...
Andy Omiljanczyk.
Embracing new technologies and methods of business may help to keep you ahead of competitors, but meeting customers' basic service needs remains paramount.
HHH confirms more acquisitions.
Intermediary chain Hill House Hammond has confirmed that it expects to make a further four broker ac...
Going for broking.
Brokers should take comfort from the fact that a direct motor insurer has held its hands up and admi...
IBRC will stay until Act goes.
The Treasury has confirmed that the Insurance Brokers Registration Council will still exist after 31...
Quality addition in merger.
Welsh broker Thomas, Carroll has bought Portercroft Associates. The business will be merged into Tho...
Park life.
Tim Collison dons his kit and takes to the pitch to tackle policies offering affordable personal accident protection for amateur footballers.
Independent upgrades motor trade contract.
Independent Insurance has updated its motor trade policy to include three and five-year long term po...
A package of three.
Preston Whiteside Commercial Insurance Underwriting has assembled a range of new schemes under the S...
Cornhill takeover of AGF leaves over 400 jobless.
AGF UK ceased writing new business this month and has announced the loss of 430 jobs as part of the ...
Direct motor insurer converts to an intermediary to survive.
Budget Insurance has converted from a direct insurer to an intermediary, conceding that it could no ...
Howe and Slack settle differences.
The merger of the Insurance Intermediaries Association and the Association of Insurance Intermediari...