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Appointment at Permanent Insurance.
Permanent Insurance has appointed Rod Macdonald as sales and marketing manager. Previously with Roya...
RSA offers 'peace of mind' to companies and their employees.
Royal & SunAlliance has relaunched its personal accident and business travel policy to include cover...
Appointment at Crowe.
Mike Regan has been appointed regional manager Scotland for Crowe Syndicate 963, part of the Crowe I...
Life's a beach for Norman clients with relaunched travel Flagship.
Norman Insurance has relaunched its travel product Flagship without raising rates, in a bid to fend ...
Appointment at Cornhill.
Cornhill Insurance has appointed John Knowles as IT executive. John was previously head of claims an...
Polish for Diamond.
Countrywide has added to its commercial quote system Diamond. Countrywide Shop and Countrywide Diamo...
Lombard offers speedier quotes.
Lombard General Insurance has launched a simplified underwriting facility offering selected brokers ...
CGU favours GA products in best-of-breed review.
CGU has favoured former General Accident products in its best-of-breed review in order to avoid unne...
Irish cream.
Northern Irish broker D McClarty & Co is responsible for developing the Internet initiative Cover.Net. Shona Cronin spoke to Douglas McClarty about the system and what it can do for switched-on brokers.
Gan seeks industry advice before launch of new motor range.
Following research into the needs of intermediaries, Gan Insurance has launched a new range of priva...
Zurich products face Y2K delay.
Zurich Financial Services, formed out of the merger of Eagle Star and Zurich Insurance, has warned t...
Market average premium change since July 1994.
Average private motor premiums rose by £10 over the last quarter of 1998, continuing the upward tren...
Stockton Re increases Crowe shareholding ahead of sale completion.
Following the news that Stockton Re is to buy the Crowe Insurance Group, the Bermudian-based reinsur...
RSA inspection guide.
Royal & SunAlliance Engineering has put together a guide to plant inspection which covers the new la...
Terry Wellard.
Many brokers who jumped at the short-term solution of price-matching in a bid to hold on to business are now paying the price.
Building business.
The construction market is reporting a significant growth in business. Shona Cronin looks at what this means for the insurance industry.
BIB's budding package.
Darlington-based BIB Underwriters has put together a package for horitcultural retailers. Underwritt...
Changing tack.
Direct writing is starting to creep into the yacht and boat sector at the smaller end of the market. Nevertheless, Andrew Newman says that yacht insurance is good broker business, even though rates are still worryingly low.
ABI seeks understanding.
The ABI is to launch a national campaign to improve consumer understanding and service in the indust...
Rates are up, but claims will follow.
Rates in the motor market are at long last moving in the right direction. Several insurers have b...
Phoenix from the flames?
It is not enough for a company to take out a business interruption policy and hope that a settlement alone will get the business back on its feet after a loss. David Cloughton says that there is great deal more work involved.
Fleet market starts to harden.
After four years of steadily declining rates, the fleet motor market is reporting a significant hard...
Insurers to benefit from government crime crackdown.
Household insurers are set to benefit from the government's proposed crackdown on domestic burglary....
Dream machines.
The number of moped and motorbike owners has soared recently - particularly among the 30-50 age group. However, the market for motorbike insurance is still limited to a handful of specialist insurers and brokers says Tim Collison.