News
AA: premium rise warning.
Car insurance premiums have risen rapidly due to three years' of underwriting losses in the insuranc...
Drive fills post-accident gap.
Royal & SunAlliance has launched Drive, a private motor policy which includes 24-hour post-accident ...
Appointment at Willis Corroon.
Christopher Outram has been made a non-executive director of Willis Corroon Group. Mr Outram, 49, is...
Appointment at Commercial Union.
Eric Greenwood, Commercial Union's Director, Northern Region has been appointed managing director of...
Appointment at Independent Insurance.
Peter Hadden and Stuart Pettet have both been made assistant general managers. Mr Hadden, who was pr...
British Insurance Awards.
The insurance industry enjoyed the splendour of London's Grosvenor House last month at the fourth Br...
Brokers given Colonia's BEST.
Small to medium-sized brokers are to benefit from a new "club" broker partnership scheme called BEST...
Appointment at Steel Burrill Jones.
Manoj Sharma, 34, has joined Steel Burrill Jones' Automotive Division from Aon. He has been made exe...
Brokers sign up for Cover.Net.
Over 30 brokers and intermediaries have signed up to Cover.Net, the Internet initiative developed by...
Appointment at DAS Legal Expenses Insurance.
Bristol-based DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Comapny has appointed Sally Cresswell to marketing manage...
Cornhill first in UK.
Cornhill has become the first insurer in the UK to transact a full cycle EDI commercial lines winner...
Law lords ruling will lead to increase in motor premiums.
Motor and employers' liability premiums are set to rise, following a House of Lords decision which w...
Axa moves on name change.
AXA Provincial is to drop the Provincial name from its title in the last quarter of this year - a ye...
Business optimism in insurance.
Business confidence among insurance brokers has fallen to its lowest level since 1989, over the past...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Gloucester-based Ecclesiastical Insurance has made several new appointments. Jan Kirkham has been ma...
Appointment at Avon Insurance.
Roger Williams, BSc, ACA has been appointed underwriting manager. His responsibilities will include ...
Appointment at Crowe Insurance Group.
David Griffiths ACA has been appointed to the newly created position of group finance director. Mr G...
Broker Brands has great expectations.
Broker Brands, the newly formed insurance marketing company, has signed up 50 brokers as members of ...
All the Wright moves.
The FE Wright Group has acquired Teare Rose and Alder Insurance Services, both London-based brokerag...
BIIBA wishes its members the Best of Health.
The British Insurance & Investment Brokers Association (BIIBA) has joined forces with Clinicare to l...
David Worsfold.
The Financial Services Reform Bill is arousing great speculation and there is strong cross-party consensus about what lies ahead.
Half of CU's brokers say they will merge.
Mergers and acquisitions are a driving force in the broking market, according to Commercial Union's ...
Going with the flow.
Recent legislation is demanding that British industry takes environmental issues seriously. While the environmental impairment market has traditionally been risk averse, Dr Roger Litton says insurers are now more open-minded.
Talking shop.
Competition among commercial lines software providers is now fierce. Simon Threadgold compares the growing number of quotation systems available for selling package shop insurance.