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Appointment at Countrywide
Countrywide has appointed Nick Haycock as its managing director. Haycock was European business devel...
Appointment at The Insurance Partnership
The Insurance Partnership has appointed William Elliott as its claims manager. Elliott joined The In...
Appointment at Chubb Insurance
Chubb Insurance has recruited James Dobson as a senior development underwriter for London. Dobson jo...
Appointment at Ansvar
Ansvar has has taken on Gary Gilmore as its national business manager for the north. Gilmore spent 1...
Appointment at Giles Insurance Brokers
Giles Insurance Brokers has appointed David Pinches as a commercial account executive. Pinches joins...
Appointment at Home and Legacy
Home & Legacy has taken on Mark Wooldridge as its sales director. Wooldridge, who has 20 years' fina...
Appointment at Aon
Aon has recruited Mark Chessher as its chief financial officer for Aon Limited and Aon Risk Services...
Appointment at Allianz Commercial
Allianz Commercial has recruited David Price as a project manager within its change management team....
Fortress creates new structure
Fortress Underwriting has revealed plans to enhance its brand by rolling out a new growth strategy, ...
August
The UK's first Sharia-compliant insurer announced plans to target tens of thousands of small Muslim-...
AON comletes takeover
Aon completed the takeover of Benfield for £3.50 per share in cash, in addition to assuming £91m of ...
MSL develops regional interests as part of a national growth push
MSL has revealed plans to expand its UK operation and further enhance services for brokers after str...
Provision by Defra welcomed
Alliance Corporate Risk Management, part of the Towergate Partnership, has welcomed the Department f...
Underwriting profits drop for RSA
UK underwriting profits for RSA dropped to £48m for the first half of 2008 (H1 2007: £51m) in what i...
Merger creates Harrisbalcombe
Harris Claims Group and Balcombe Group have merged to create Harrisbalcombe. Both companies said the...
RSA launch proposition
A new solicitor's proposition designed to help protect and grow their businesses has been launched b...
Introducing the top 50
Included in this month's issue is the first edition of Insurance Age's 2008 Top 50 Brokers in Person...
Network plagiarism row over but not forgotten
The parties involved in the recent network sabre rattling have pulled back from any legal action fol...
Xbroker expands
Xbroker has expanded its insurer panel, with Axa, Groupama and Brit joining with one product each. X...
RK Shipman has claimed its new quote-to-buy ..
RK Shipman has claimed its new quote-to-buy commercial insurance for small businesses is the first t...
League winners announced ahead of phase two tee-off
Congratulations to Paul Croft of Berkhamsted-based B P Sanders and Co, the winner of the Phase One h...
Risk perspectives - Understand the basics of H&S
Ted Kenrick is a technical and risk solutions manager at Norwich Union Risk Services Where a busine...
Open GI: internet at the heart of start-up success
Broker start-ups, especially web-focused operations, are on the rise, according to anecdotal evidenc...
Questgate launches counter-fraud division
QuestGates has launched a counter-fraud division that, in addition to delivering and developing new ...