Zurich Insurance
Zurich restructures UK business
Zurich has announced changes to the organisational structure of its UK general insurance (UKGI) business in a bid to bolster its accountability to the market.
Viewpoint: Technically speaking
With the success of the iPad and Lloyd's plans to trial the replacement of traditional underwriting slips, Martin Eves asks whether new technology can be incorporated to benefit the insurance industry or if it is more often a case of hype over substance
Bluefin's Elite in run-off to allow greater Platinum focus
Bluefin has announced it is putting its Elite underwriting facility for small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) business into run-off in favour of expanding its existing Platinum product range.
2010 review: A year of living cautiously
The economy grew, rival political parties unexpectedly started working together and personal lines rates even hardened, although plenty of surprises and setbacks meant that 2010 was far from plain sailing, writes Andrew Tjaardstra.
Aviva heads to Zurich for corporate risk and specialty lines MD
Zurich’s CEO for global corporate UK business David Hall has resigned to join Aviva as managing director of corporate risks and specialty lines in its UK general insurance business.
Purple replaces Zurich with Groupama
Purple Partnership, the Jelf-owned network, has announced Groupama Insurances as a new commercial key partner, replacing Zurich on its panel of supporting insurers.
Spring change at Zurich Municipal
March 2011 handover for Zurich Municipal top role
Bluefin to put SME underwriting facility Elite into run-off
Bluefin has announced that it is putting its Elite underwriting facility for small to medium sized enterprise (SME) business into run-off in favour of expanding its existing Platinum product range.
E-commerce: CII group to assess how social media can review claims
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has created a New Generation Claims Group tasked with investigating how social media can be used to improve the claims process for brokers and their clients.
Spending Review 2010: Zurich Municipal warns against "knee jerk" reactions
Andrew Jepp, head of local government at Zurich Municipal, said the extent of todays cuts are "every bit as severe as expected".
Post Intelligence Benchmarking - Commercial Insurers: Waving - or drowning?
Insurance 360's groundbreaking survey of commercial insurers' performance reveals which ones have got their acts together and which ones need to raise their game. Peter Joy reports.
MMA creates and fills new commercial underwriting role
Paul Hodgson, formerly MMA’s head of underwriting, commercial has been promoted to the newly-created role of director, commercial underwriting.
CII aims to improve claims process with formation of new think tank group
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has brought together a group of young insurance professionals to consider and develop new and innovative ways to improve the claims process.
Quinn Insurance bidders revealed
Anglo Irish Bank, Travelers Insurance and Liberty Global are among the shortlist of five potential buyers for Quinn Insurance, according to reports.
Product review: PI for growing communications sector
Product Technology and communications sector professional indemnity cover.
LV denies market charge of 'massaging' motor results
LV has hit back at persistent market speculation surrounding the health of its motor business.
Market Watch - Professional indemnity: Cover-all expertise
Emmanuel Kenning takes a whistle-stop tour of the post-recession professional indemnity market to find the transferable skills brokers can learn from specialists in a range of sectors.
Polly C - the hottest insurance gossip
A healthy dose of irony is good for the soul and Polly found her fix in Zurich's misfortunes this month.
Reportage - solicitors' PI: The domino effect
The much publicised troubles of Quinn and its solicitors' PI book have had a knock-on effect on other providers in the market. Liz McMahon asks what opportunities and responsibilities for brokers now exist.
NTR pilot to ease complex business underwriting
Broker Network is piloting a network trading room (NTR) environment that aims to allow members to place complex commercial risks.
Ecclesiastical hires former RSA broker director in newly-created role
Ecclesiastical has appointed Kevin Jones, who was formerly commercial director in the UK broker division at RSA, in the newly-created role of director of strategic development.
FSA slaps Zurich UK with record fine for data loss
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has hit Zurich UK with a record fine of £2.275m for failing to have adequate systems and controls in place to prevent the loss of customers’ confidential information.
Brit nominates former Zurich chief for top financial role
Brit Insurance is set to appoint a new group chief financial officer to replace the departing Matthew Scales.
Zurich raids Axa for property head
Zurich UK has announced the appointment of Peter Clark as head of property and strategy exposure management, commercial lines, effective 1 October 2010.