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MGA Ink to target small solicitor firms with new PI facility
Ink Underwriting Agencies and St Giles Legal and Professional Risks have joined forces to target what they describe as the "troubled solicitors insurance market".
Marsh expands contamination cover
Marsh has launched a specialist contamination insurance product for water utility firms.
CMS launches paperless broker system
Compliance Management Services has launched a paperless people management system, Streamline Solutions, aimed at the insurance broking sector.
Corporates seek insurer credit rating assurances
Aviva is receiving a surge in enquiries from corporate clients worried about insurer credit ratings.
MGA Ink to target small solicitor firms with new PI facility
Ink Underwriting Agencies and St Giles Legal and Professional Risks have joined forces to target what they describe as the "troubled solicitors insurance market".
UK-Indian traing relations: A passage to India
The UK has long looked at India as a trading partner, especially its outsourcing sector. Following a recent visit by a delegation led by the Prime Minister, Daniel Dunkley looks at how the insurance industry is building its own links with the country.
Post Magazine – 02 September 2010
The latest issue of Post magazine is now available to subscribers as a digital interactive e-book.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny had a pleasant lunch at the RAC Club last week with one of her esteemed market contacts and was taken aback to hear their car had been stolen and they were having problems getting their claim paid by none other than Aviva. But that was only half…
Postscript - 10 years ago: Alex Forbes buys parts of Bradstock
Looking back through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance news, as this highlight from 10 years ago reveals.
Career development & CSR news: Gender Salary Survey — Insuring against inequality
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act 1970. This should be an auspicious occasion but recent research from the Chartered Management Institute has revealed any celebration would be premature. Four decades on from when this legislation…
Junction adds ABC, Premier and Chaucer to M&S panel
Affinity insurance provider Junction has expanded its insurer panel for partner Marks & Spencer Money.
Broker focus - Premium liability: That boat has sailed
With the publication of Issues Paper Eight in July, the Law Commission set about addressing an anomaly that applies to marine insurance, which makes brokers responsible for paying their clients' premiums to underwriters. Rachel Gordon explains why it…
Postbox: Brokers don't need to be alone in tough times
As reported in The Daily Telegraph this week, Towergate's Peter Cullum has warned that too many businesses are "traumatised" by the recession and are failing to prepare for the future, and that now is the time to be planning "transformational changes…
Interview - Ken MacDonald: Keeping it simple
As former chief exec of Aon Global UK, Ken MacDonald has been refreshed by a return to a private company. Lynn Rouse talks to Miller's head of corporate risks about triple-digit growth and targeting FTSE 250 firms.
Fortis "well placed" to step in over motor void
Fortis UK chief executive Barry Smith believes the insurance group is well positioned to take advantage of the upheaval in the brokered private motor market.
Post in print - 2 September 2010
Post reporter Amy Ellis outlines the main news from this week's issue of Post.
BIA offers women hope
Research released this week by the Chartered Management Institute to mark the 40th anniversary of The Equal Pay Act 1970, revealed equal pay within the insurance industry could still be more than 35 years away.
Women must be pragmatic if the gender salary gap is to close
Women must start taking the same pragmatic approach as men when applying for jobs if the gender salary gap is to close.
Imas: UK industry well placed to weather double dip
The UK insurance industry is well placed to weather a double dip in the recovery of the beleaguered UK financial services sector, Imas Corporate Advisors has claimed.
MGA to double footprint after recruitment drive
Glasgow-headquartered managing general agency Giant Risk Solutions is set to open new offices in Yorkshire and the South-west, with plans to widen its footprint throughout the UK.
Lockton to become latest London market broker to seek LLP status
Lockton International has become the latest London market broker to seek limited liability partnership status, Postonline can reveal.
Interview - Peter Harmer: Next in line
Peter Harmer
Keychoice claims it is "not just another MGA" as it unveils insurer trio
Keychoice Underwriting, the new commercial managing general agency owned by SSP has claimed it is "not just another MGA".
Axa names new finance director
Waseem Malik, Axa's former head of M&A, has been appointed to the role of finance director at the insurer.