Commercial
SSP sets up new operating structure
Software house SSP has announced a new operating structure to take effect immediately. Following the acquisition of rival software company Sectornet in December, SSP will now opertate through four divisions - Intermediary Services, Corporate Broker,…
NIG picks Venus for regional role
NIG has appointed Tony Venus as regional manager of its London office who will assume immediate responsibility for achieving profitable development of NIG’s broker business within the region.
Goss re-brands branch offices
Goss Group has brought all the insurance broking and financial services companies under the Goss & Co banner.
Broker Network profits up 97%
The Broker Network has announced a 97% rise in operating profits before taxation and amortisation, to £1.5m, for the six month period up to 31 October 2005. In addition, turnover has increased by 56% to £5,852,000, while the group operating margin before…
Webline acquired by Capita
Outsourcing provider, Capita, has bought quotation portal, Webline, for an undisclosed sum.
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services assignment
Standard and Poor's Ratings Services assigned its first interactive Lloyd's Syndicate Assessment of ...
Fortis acquires specialist consultancy
Fortis has bolstered its affinity insurance capability with the acquisition of a specialist consulta...
Axa: new director for reinstated role
Axa has appointed a new commercial distribution director, one year after the role was effectively wi...
The wind of change
News comment: Contract certainty
Virgin launches TV campaign for new cover
Virgin Money has launched a new direct cancer cover product - The Big V - which it claims will save ...
AA signs Axa SME deal after U-turn
Broking giant AA Insurance Services has made a U-turn by re-entering the small and medium-sized comm...
Gable goes to the liability table
An offshore domiciled insurance company looks to provide new liability capacity in the UK, offering ...
Pavilion Insurance Management signs agreement
Pavilion Insurance Management has signed a three-year agreement to provide internet-based insurance ...
Appointment at La Playa
Cambridge-based broker La Playa has expanded its high net worth private client team, with Sue Ephgra...
GI market's 2006 optimism reaches decade high of 83%
The general insurance sector has been given a broadly optimistic outlook for 2006, despite fears ove...
Tom Jones proposes an alternative new years' list
The Claimant's View
Hiscox adds to events team at Expo-Sure
Tunbridge Wells based specialist event insurance provider, Insurex Expo-Sure – a part of Hiscox, has strengthened its team by appointing two new managers. The roles were recently created after Insurex Expo-Sure was acquired by insurance group Hiscox in…
La Playa in HNW expansion
Cambridge-based broker La Playa has expanded its high net worth private client team, with Sue Ephgrave and Amy Bridger joining as account executives.
Aon produces new political risk map
Investors will not be trading in a safer world in 2006 despite twice as many countries experiencing political risk upgrades as downgrades in Aon’s 2006 Political & Economic Risk Map. The map shows that political interference poses the greatest threat to…
Former Aon exec Stott takes Axa distribution job
Axa has appointed Gary Stott as commercial distribution director at AXA Insurance. Reporting to Mark Cliff, distribution director, he will focus on the growth of AXA Insurance’s commercial business proposition. He joins on 1st February 2006.
Virgin Money launches cancer cover
Virgin Money Life Insurance has announced that it has launched a radically scaled-down critical illness (CI) insurance product, which will only pay out if a policyholder develops cancer.
New construction insurer launched
William Dewsall of Hogarth Underwriting Agencies Limited, is set to launch a new insurance company focussing on construction, Gable Insurance AG (Gable), which will start underwriting from January 2006.
Healthcare insurance lacking integration
An integrated health management proposition encompassing the key facets of critical illness cover, income protection insurance and private medical insurance is inevitable, according to research by Defaqto.
Fortis: UK acquisition announcement
Fortis UK has acquired Affinity Solutions, a financial services consultancy firm specialising in the UK’s affinity market.