Regulation
PI insurers gear up for fight over mis-selling compensation claims.
Brokers and IFAs worried about whether their professional indemnity insurance will cover compensatio...
ABI shows its teeth in agency cancelling.
A total of 40 independent intermediaries have had their agencies cancelled for failing to complete a...
Smart acquisition.
Yorkshire broker Smart and Cook has acquired York-based intermediary The Smith and Pinching Group. T...
Vanguard bundles building cover.
Vanguard Insurance has launched a property renovation product, which is the combination of five sepa...
Non-compliant intermediaries in agency cull.
A total of 61 intermediaries have been sent agency cancellation notices by insurers for failing to c...
Letter of the month - Why I will shed no tears for the IBRC.
The government's decision to rid us of the anachronistic IBRC appears to be causing a predictable br...
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.
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...
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...
Howe and Slack settle differences.
The merger of the Insurance Intermediaries Association and the Association of Insurance Intermediari...
IFA Portfolio's income cover takes on banks.
In response to competition from building societies and banks, IFA Portfolio, the service company of ...
Sedgwick bid assessed.
J&H Marsh McLennan's £1.24bn bid for broker Sedgwick is currently being assessed by the EU Commissio...
Non-compliant ABI intermediaries days away from sanctions.
A total of 145 independent intermediaries have just days to comply with the Association of British I...
Ian Ritchie.
Sadly, the IBRC is to be abolished. So, let's now look to the future and get the most out of self-regulation.
Brokers could have to choose between two regulatory bodies.
Brokers are facing the unwelcome prospect of two separate regulatory bodies taking the place of the ...
Foreman snaps up P&G.
Foreman Bassett Insurance Brokers has acquired Stubbington-based Personal & General Insurance Servic...
David Worsfold.
The 150-page Financial Services and Markets Bill leaves many issues unresolved, not least the gap left by the scrapping of the Policyholders Protection Board.
Y2K database goes on-line despite limited support.
The Association of British Insurers has gone live with its year 2000 database, despite the poor resp...
Divided we fall.
If the Treasury thought that announcing the repeal of the Insurance Brokers Act 1977 and the aboliti...
Brokers sign up for Cover.Net.
Over 30 brokers and intermediaries have signed up to Cover.Net, the Internet initiative developed by...
David Worsfold.
The Financial Services Reform Bill is arousing great speculation and there is strong cross-party consensus about what lies ahead.
Arter appointed to AII.
Chris Arter ACII MBA has been appointed secretary general of the Association of Insurance Intermedia...
ABI issues millennium warning.
The Association of British Insurers has issued a stern warning to the market to become year 2000-com...