News/Regulation
The importance of due diligence - avoid repenting at leisure.
Q: We are a small broker and are about to undertake our first acquisition. Should we carry out du...
Appointment at Road Runner.
Road Runner has promoted Jill Muncey from underwriting manager to operations manager. She will take ...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has appointed several new loss adjusters. On the liability side, they a...
BDML Connect on the up.
Intermediary BDML Connect increased its premium income by over 50% during 1999, and expanded its sta...
Freestart protection for mortgage holders.
A new mortgage payment protection policy has been launched by Goodfellows that offers the policyhold...
Appointment at Marsh.
Hamish Ritchie has been made chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) UK, and will continue as c...
PB sponsors BIBA conference
Professional Broking has joined the likes of Axa and Royal & SunAlliance to sponsor this year's Briti...
Chubb launches new European brand
Chubb Europe has launched a new European brand for its corporate insurance products. The European por...
Farmers offered help with safety compliance
Rural Insurance Group is offering brokers with farming clients a new service to help them comply with...
Market support for BIBA.
The Broker Network and Coversure have joined the British Insurance Brokers' Association in the bigge...
Appointment at Ace Europe.
Ace Europe has appointed Luc Goovaerts as company secretary, following the retirement of Jozef Geert...
Cloudy skies ahead.
Small and medium-sized commercial lines brokers are facing competitive threats from many different directions. Radical re-thinking is required if they are to survive, says Ric Mathers.
Prompt goes online.
Prompt, the premium finance division of Close Brothers, is to launch a new Internet trading facility...
The Underwriter in deal with Chartwell.
New start-up The Underwriter Insurance Company has been appointed as lead underwriter for Chartwell ...
GISC proposals spark broker concerns.
The GISC's second consultation document has provoked widespread concern within the insurance sector. Tim Collison looks at the responses from the broker and intermediary community.
BIBA in IBM solutions talks.
The British Insurance Brokers Association is in talks with IBM regarding the creation of an IT solut...
Insurers are unprepared for EMU
Insurers are reluctant to make significant investment in preparations for the UK entry to Economic an...
Budget wins business award
Budget Insurance Services has been voted Greater Peterborough's Business of the Year for 1999. The ...
Insurers to take on more staff
Employment levels in the insurance sector are expected to rise within the first quarter of 2000, with...
Bennetts petitions on diesel spills
Motorcycle insurance intermediary Bennetts is stepping up its campaign to reduce the numbers of moto...
IOB urges CP33 feedback.
Insurance Ombudsman Laurie Slade has urged all members of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau to provide ...
Sale raises staffing issues.
Q: We are about to purchase a firm of brokers. We are only taking on one of the staff, the others ar...
Launch of the British Damage Management Association.
Overheard joined the good and the great at the launch of the British Damage Management Association, ...
Essential difference.
Sian Fisher, chief underwriting officer at Hiscox Insurance, tells Tim Collison how turning her back on the traditional professional indemnity market has helped the company find success by doing things a bit differently to other insurers.