Commercial
Iprism hopes for £100m premium through commercial portal
Underwriting agency Iprism has unveiled an SME comparative quote facility for UK brokers.
Arag launches quick quote system
Arag Legal Expenses is launching its commercial quick quote system for UK brokers at today's British Insurance Brokers' Association conference.
Post journalist named general insurance writer of the year
Post's news editor Ralph Savage was named as the general insurance writer of the year at last night's headlinemoney Awards 2007 held in London. Lynn Rouse, deputy editor, and Jonathan Swift, editor of Post, were second and third respectively.
Bright analyst off to Munich
Christopher Phillimore, a 34-year-old underwriting analyst from Ecclesiastical Insurance, has been s...
UK given wake-up call
The UK's skills envoy has warned UK businesses they must wake up to the changing nature of working p...
Appointment at Arista
Arista has recruited James Sawkins as senior underwriter, and Esther Lavender-Jones and Claire McCal...
Appointment at Cooper Gay
Cooper Gay North America has appointed Joe Filardo as director of sales and marketing. Based in New ...
Appointment at LV
LV has appointed Dennis Holt as chairman, effective from 1 July. Mr Holt joined the company's board ...
Zurich instigates global property claims review
Zurich has begun a global property claims review, focused on procuring loss adjusting services inter...
Service mantra not evidenced on frontline
While I'm delighted to see that luminaries from the insurance industry are sitting around a table to...
Allianz arm outlines partnership plan
PetPlan has started a major strategic push into the affinity and white labelling market in both the ...
Appointment at Petplan
Petplan, part of Allianz Insurance, has appointed its first partnerships manager. Phil McKinnon, who...
Appointment at Thompson Heath and Bond
Thompson Heath and Bond has appointed Peter English as development director. Mr English, who has 40 ...
Royal and Sun Alliance remains open to Primary return
The UK chief executive of Royal and Sun Alliance has not discounted teaming up with Primary General ...
LV to target brokers
Insurer LV has completed the purchase of Britannia Rescue from the Civil Service Motoring Associatio...
S&P seeks to treble premiums to £75m
Personal lines underwriting agency Select and Protect said it can treble its premium income to £75m ...
Broker Network sceptical over insurer takeover interest
The Broker Network revealed its new branding image this week, and took a swipe at rivals for spendin...
Kerry bowls over major rivals
Kerry London has beaten off competition from its larger rivals Aon, Willis and JLT to secure the bro...
Marsh follows RSA lead with renewable energy strategy
Marsh has established a renewable energy team and named Susan Stokes and Tom Sexton as its co-leaders. This news follows insurer Royal and Sun Alliance's announcement last month that it was planning a major expansion of its renewable energy division.
Biba Launches Insurer Financial Strength Ratings Service for Members
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) has launched an Insurer Financial Strength Ratings service for members that will help them tell, in real time, what rating the insurance companies they are using have achieved.
Homeserve shares fall 8.3% on D&G acquisition news
Homeserve's share price fell sharply in late trading today, after analysts poured cold water on its planned bid for insurer Domestic and General.
Younger generation take risks with cheap insurance products
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) has published new research into consumers’ insurance purchasing habits, revealing a worrying trend amongst young people buying insurance.
Broker Lycetts unveils rebrand
Lycetts has today announced that its Algarve division, based in Surrey, is to be officially re-branded under the Lycetts Group of companies. Acquired by Lycetts in June 2005, Algarve is a general commercial broker who also specialise in arranging cover…
Brit Insurance launches new EDI home insurance product
Brit Insurance will soon be providing access to its Advantage Home Insurance product through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) technology, exclusively via Software Solutions Partners (SSP)systems.