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Iron Trades celebrate centenary.
Over 250 guests attended a dinner at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace (above), last month to c...
David Worsfold.
Kitemarking insurance products may sound like a good idea, but as European experience testifies, it can easily be used as an excuse to forego expertise and service.
Appointment at Steel Burrill Jones.
Steel Burrill Jones (SBJL) has recruited a new team of international brokers led by John Mitchell. T...
Appointment at Independent.
Independent Insurance has made a string of new appointments. Janet Stansfield has been made executiv...
Terry Wellard.
Keeping rates low does nothing but force people out of the market. We must increase motor premiums, and soon.
Appointment at Kennedys.
City-based firm of solicitors Kennedys has promoted four assistant solicitors to Partners. Nina Gast...
Travel cover now on sale from Eagle Star website.
Eagle Star Direct has expanded its interactive website, which allows customers to purchase insurance...
Steve Knight.
Polaris seems to have reached 'critical mass', but should it have been designed to make use of the Internet?
Caravan of love.
Owners of caravans are often passionate about their cherished vehicles. Caroline Duncan says that brokers, on the other hand, have traditionally been less enthusiastic about this class of business.
Insurance GB founders in run-off dispute.
The legal battle between the founders of Insurance GB and its US parent, the American Financial Grou...
Call Fraudline.
Sedgwick and PLC Consultancy Services have teamed up to launch a new scheme to help companies reduce...
Appointment at J&H Marsh & McLennan (UK).
Nick Hodgson (above) has joined J&H Marsh & McLennan (UK) as its specialist motor industry account m...
Holy smoke.
The Arson Prevention Bureau has launched a guide to tackle the problem of arson attacks on places of...
Why we saved tour operator.
My company acts as guarantor of various travel companies who are required to provide guarantees to t...
Safe from harm.
Several large insureds have recently reported significant premium reductions. Tony Dowding says this is not due to the soft market, but to improvements in health and safety procedures.
This is a job for someone else.
It was not so long ago that insurers looked after all of their own claims handling. However, Steve Banner says that more insurers are now outsourcing their claims operations.
Crowe moves into property following headhunt.
Crowe Insurance (Syndicate 963) has poached property underwriters Jonathan Mallyon and Nigel Tatlock...
Appointment at the Crowe Insurance Group.
The Crowe Insurance Group has appointed Quentin Crowe (above), head of marketing, and Norman Mintz, ...
WPA goes for middle ground with Rowan.
Western Provident Association has produced a private medical policy that will fill the middle ground...
A time of uncertainty.
BIIBA's Spirit of Success conference was packed with useful marketing information. But Tim Collison says that the main topic of conversation was fears about changes in regulation.
Appointment at Commercial Union.
Conor Jennings has become the new managing director at Commercial Union Management Services (Guernse...
Francis Perkins Award.
Yorkshire broker Graham Huntrods has won the British Insurance and Investment Brokers' Association's...
ABI: no definitive Y2K exclusion guidelines.
Mark Boleat, director general of the Association of British Insurers, has said that the ABI is not i...
Quotel offers exclusive EDI motor panel.
Quotel has launched an exclusive motor panel facility for its EDI customers, which boasts 10 leading...