News/E-Trading
RSA travels upmarket.
Royal & Sun Alliance has developed a travel insurance product for high net worth customers. Prime...
Regional alliance to compete with bigger brokers.
Eight East Anglian brokers have followed in the footsteps of The Broker Alliance and Unitas and join...
Countrywide brokers take the lead with proactive marketing.
A group of Countrywide brokers are beating off the competition in the household market and achieving...
Not concerned by MMC ruling.
The recent ruling by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that discounted holidays must be made ava...
Chartwell's Charity Plus policy a 'must for all UK charities'.
David Marshall & Others Syndicate 839, managed by Chartwell Managing Agents, has devised a new profe...
Broker splits in two.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has announced that it is to split into two major operations. JLT Risk ...
Ansvar puts together policy for free church movement.
Ansvar has put together a policy for the free church movement, where churches who do not own their o...
Appointment at Lawclub Legal Protection.
Legal expenses insurance provider Lawclub Legal Protection, a division of Cornhill Insurance, has ch...
Alan Gavaghan.
Six pugnacious brokers have stayed on as councillors at the IBRC. They will do all they can to maintain high standards, but you must do your bit. You must renew your registration.
Chubb gears up for Masterpiece motor.
Chubb Insurance is looking to recruit a team of specialist underwriters in preparation for the launc...
Appointment at The Broker Network.
Adam Croot (above) has been appointed southern business development manager of The Broker Network, w...
Les McIntosh.
A recent fact-finding visit to Misys has left one consultant in no doubt of the value of the company's new customer-driven approach.
The polluter must pay.
The costs of cleaning up polluted land can be huge. However, says David Fanning, too few companies are aware of the need for environmental impairment insurance.
Appointment at Pearl Assurance.
Duncan Hopper has been appointed to the newly created role of director of brand and communications w...
DAS centre to expand.
DAS has begun work to double the size of its motor claims centre at Bedwas in South Wales, to provid...
Helphire consumes CA.
Helphire has conditionally agreed to acquire Countrywide Assistance, which deals in motor uninsured ...
New divisions at Cigna follow restructuring of UK operations.
Cigna has restructured its UK operations into three core divisions which replace its mono-line appro...
Untapped potential.
The average broker is unlikely to have much luck selling directors and officers (D&O) liability cover to blue chip companies as most already have it. Further down the business ladder, however, sales opportunities are massive says Edmund Tirbutt.
Lucky winner.
Tom Clarke of Campbell Irvine is the lucky winner of Countrywide's competition for the best pilot si...
Fielding Mann acquisitions.
Fielding Mann, the retail arm of The Greatminster Group, is launching the next phase of its expansio...
Misys future underestimated.
I was surprised to read Les McIntosh's views on the future of the UK insurance IT market (PB, Nov, p...
Consumer groups are lobbied on polarisation.
Clerical Medical is urging consumer groups to support its campaign for the maintenance of polarisati...
Kiln fires up for merger.
Lloyd's group Kiln is merging part of its back office facilities with Berkshire Hathaway Internation...
Appointment at UK Facilities.
Wholesale insurance brokers UK Facilities has appointed Albert Robinson, formerly of FM Facilities i...