Commercial
System support
If the legal expenses insurance sector is to remain buoyant, it needs to be reassessed in terms of what it can honestly support, says Ian Sadler
Allianz Cornhill's IT departments cuts audit time
Allianz Cornhill's IT department claims to have cut weeks off the time it takes to audit its softwar...
Kiln in intellectual property push
The government has urged small and medium-sized enterprises to use insurance to protect their intell...
SMEs - Small is beautiful
Commercial Lines
Call for support over preparation
I enjoyed reading the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters technical forum report on the future of ...
Customer Relations - Where's this relationship going?
Commercial Lines
Mobile worker benefits spelt out
As workloads get heavier and stress levels get higher, professionals should be looking after their r...
Allianz offers brokers white-labelling service
Allianz Cornhill is planning to offer brokers the chance to white-label its personal lines products ...
Direct Commercial - The great leap forwards
Commercial Lines
What the papers said this week
The Times Morriston Hospital NHS Trust and Swansea NHS Trust in South Wales were ordered to pay £35...
Accident rates to rise
Motor Insurance News
Groupama Insurances completes sales and distribution team
Groupama Insurances has completed its sales and distribution team with the appointment of Rob Fisher...
London P&I Club reports strengthened reserve outlook for 2004
Marine insurance mutual The London P&I Club's financial statements for the year ending February 20, 2004, have shown an improvement on previous years, with an increase in free reserves free reserves of 23 per cent to $101.9m (£56m) from $82.8m in 2002/3.
Kiln bullish in 2004 forecast
Lloyd's insurer Kiln is predicting its 2004 year of account will exceed the performance of its business in the previous year, when it acheived a market leading combined ratio of 77% and profits of £33.1m.
Canadian broker takes £1.5m stake in London's Dashwood, Brewer & Phipps
Toronto-based insurance and reinsurance broker the RS Group of Companies has completed the purchase of 49% of the issued share capital of Dashwood, Brewer & Phipps, Lloyd’s and London Market Insurance Brokers.
Brokers launch cover for construction professionals
Building and contruction firm, Multiassistance, together with The Broker Network and J. Gosling Insurance Brokers, is to provide insurance for its UK network of over 140 trade professionals.
Groupama completes regional management team
Groupama Insurances has completed its sales and distribution team with the appointment of Rob Fisher as key account manager for the mid east and Steve Vachre as key account manager covering the North west.
Marsh buys Manchester-based broking and risk consulting business
Broker Marsh today announced it has acquired the insurance broking and risk consulting business of Manchester-based Rochester Kemp.
PWS opens new offices
Broker PWS has opened three new international offices and has also announced the creation of a new UK-based accident and health team.
Hastings in hunt for call centre staff
Private motor broker Hastings Direct is planning to recruit 150 staff this summer, increasing capaci...
Royal London: 380 go
Mutual life insurer Royal London has announced 380 redundancies nationwide after revealing it was to...
Appointment at InsurE-com
InsurE-com has employed Chris Mosely as business development manager. Mr Mosely has spent 24 years w...
Smaller slices of PI
PI: Linear Modelling
Appointment at KPMG
Ammy Seth has joined KPMG's financial services practice to lead the company's enterprise-wide risk m...