Commercial
Aon launches M&A warranty alternative
Aon Limited has today unveiled an innovative insurance product called Warranty Replacement and Acquisition Protection, to replace the usual giving of warranties by a seller to a buyer in a merger and acquisition.
Room targets insurance start-ups
A new IT service that claims it can reduce time, risk and costs associated with creating new insurance companies in London, Bermuda and Dublin is being launched by Room Solutions, a specialist supplier of IT systems to the commercial insurance sector,…
Medico-legal firm planning ATE insurer launch from Gibraltar
The Board of LitComp Plc, a national supplier of medico-legal and psychological reports, has conditionally agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of Fairmont Holdings Limited, the holding company of Elite Insurance Company Limited. Elite has…
Moorhouse launches new training academy
Welsh broker Moorhouse has launched a new in-house training academy, to equip its expanding workforc...
US broker looks to Lloyd's
US broker Colemont will follow its provisional Lloyd's accreditation by expanding its global presen...
Ashworth Mairs deal is confirmed
Loss adjuster Ashworth Mairs Group has been bought by its management team, in a £62m deal backed by...
Axa hires new strategic partnership manager
Axa has hired a new strategic partnership manager with direct responsibility for establishing and de...
Reversal of fortune
Liability Overview
Heath Lambert Construction appointed broker to McNicholas Construction
Heath Lambert Construction has been appointed broker to UK civil engineering contractor McNicholas C...
Spanish lessons
Regulatory Focus: Spain
Biba resubmits protocol advice
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has launched a campaign to prevent more regulation of cl...
Insurers given one year to defend claims
QBE, Zurich and Norwich Union have been given one year to prepare their defence against a series of ...
Haste: "2006 must be a hard market"
Royal and Sun Alliance group chief executive Andy Haste has warned rivals they will "feel the pain" ...
Allianz Cornhill appointed preferred carrier
Allianz Cornhill Commercial has been appointed preferred carrier of accident and health insurance fo...
Rebuilding a business
Hard-nosed, focused, driven, affable and disarming are a few of the words used to describe Andy Haste, chief executive of a rejuvenated Royal and Sun Alliance. He talks to Anthony Gould about life at the insurer in his first three years
The Towergate Partnership announces acquisition
The Towergate Partnership has announced its 103rd acquisition, that of Eric Barber and Company, bas...
BIBA rejects call for discrimination against younger drivers
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has rejected SAGA’s call for younger drivers to be discriminated against with higher premiums because their age group commit more uninsured driving offences in the UK.
Aon cuts 750 UK jobs in restructure
Aon UK today embarked on a major restructuring of its UK insurance broking and risk management operations. As part of this process, the company anticipates taking actions that will reduce employee numbers by up to 750 out of a total 6800 UK workforce…
Allianz Cornhill ties up exclusive Willis deal
Allianz Cornhill Commercial has been appointed preferred carrier of accident and health insurance for Willis Commercial Network.
AMG in management buyout
Hermes Private Equity has backed a £62m management buyout of Ashworth Mairs Group, as predicted by Post Magazine last week (PM, 29 September 2005, p1).
Allianz Cornhill celebrates first batch of engineering management graduates
Allianz Cornhill Engineering's first eight delegates have just graduated from the new Engineer Development Programme; a new one year course which has been created to aid succession planning and management development within Allianz Cornhill Engineering.
NAMIC praises consumer-protection moves
An analysis by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has praised a new lega...
Peru - UK brokers enter the market
Global Review: Latin America and Spain
Willis teams up with Highline Data
Willis Group Holdings and Highline Data LLC have teamed up to develop and distribute analytical repo...