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St Paul in London.
St Paul International has launched a London market operation which will be headed by Paul Cusition, ...
Insurers wait for credit hire claims judgement.
Insurers are waiting to discover whether they are liable for credit hire claims, where the hire agre...
Appointment at Crowe.
Crowe Syndicate 963, part of the Crowe Insurance Group, has appointed Tony Chapman as claims manager...
Frankland in buy-out.
Derby-based commercial brokers, P J Frankland, has changed ownership following a management buy-out ...
Appointment at Kennedys.
Kennedys, the London market insurance specialist, has made several new appointments. John Graham, La...
Liberty covers against land clean up costs.
Protection against environmental liabilities set out under Part IIA of the Environmental Protection ...
Broker Direct in drive to recruit new shareholders.
Broker Direct has started recruiting new shareholders, a year later than the proposed date for invit...
Support for BIIBA plans.
The British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association has now received all of the responses from ...
NU's post-acquisition redundancies hit 600.
Norwich Union has announced another 230 redundancies as part of the integration of ITT London & Edin...
GAN and Lombard move closer to merger.
A joint working party, comprising Lombard and GAN senior executives, has completed the first phase o...
PM drops transaction charges.
In a radical change to the way it derives revenue, Policy Master has ceased levying transaction char...
Appointment at Countrywide Insurance Marketing.
Countrywide Insurance Marketing has made Russell McMullen (above) sales support manager. He has prev...
Crowe Insurance provides direct access to bus & coach policies.
Crowe Insurance has set up a new facility to provide provincial brokers with direct access to its bu...
Drake to expand into Lloyd's.
Brighton-based Drake Insurance is planning to make a move into the Lloyd's market in a bid to expand...
Appointment at Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies.
Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies has appointed John Agnew (above) as area manager for Sc...
Future of SIF could rest on postal ballot.
Solicitors across the country will have to wait until 12 May to hear the results of a postal ballot ...
NCD protection for Cornhill motorbike.
Cornhill Insurance has added a no-claims discount protection to its motorbike policy, aimed at exper...
Raising money for Comic Relief.
Overheard has been amused to learn of all the weird and wonderful things the insurance industry did ...
New HHH call centre.
Hill House Hammond has launched Business Insurance Direct, a commercial lines call centre in Bournem...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Devitt Insurance Services has made Alex Minajew (above) its new business development manager. He is ...
Appointment at D Woodruff & Others.
John Cross has joined Syndicate 1236, D Woodruff & Others as liability underwriter. He will be respo...
Rags to riches.
Stuart Alexander has seen massive expansion since it was set up in a small office in Battersea in 1993. Alex Shead and Stuart Reid tell Tim Collison how it proved the sceptics wrong.
Hodson expands further.
The RP Hodson Group is continuing its expansion with a merger between its financial services divisio...
Addressing future challenges.
Cardiff will be the venue for next month's BIIBA annual conference. Shona Cronin looks at what is in store during this three-day seminar-lead event tackling future challenges in the broker market.