Commercial
Fusion plays Samaritan to policyholders' employees
Fusion claims to have become the first UK insurer to provide both free employee stress counselling and on-line advice for employers as part of all policies.
Helphire Group opens branch in Newcastle and appoints new managing director
Helphire Group has opened its 15th regional branch, in Newcastle. With another five branches due to open this year, the company anticipates recruiting more staff locally and nationally.
Utley quits Cox - Fisher steps in
Neil Ultey, chief executive of Cox has resigned as both CEO and as a director of the group with immediate effect. The company recently tried to buy motor insurer Highway but talks between the two companies collapsed last month.
NU set to move jobs to Sri Lanka
Norwich Union will test a new facility in Sri Lanka and may move more positions from the UK to Asia next year. The operation in Columbo will initially employ 25 people in September in finance administration roles from the company's general insurance unit…
S&P changes Allianz Canada outlook
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) has revised its outlook on Allianz Insurance of Canada and Trafalgar Insurance of Canada (collectively referred to as Allianz Canada) to stable from negative and affirmed its 'BBB+' (good) counterparty credit and…
Lighthouse Group to distribute Select & Protect products
Independent financial adviser Lighthouse Group will be distributing Select & Protect household and mortgage payment protection insurance cover.
Former Norwich Union employee pleads guilty
Former Norwich Union employee Carol Birrell pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the company in a...
What is the Post Magazine Claims Club?
The Post Magazine Claims Club has been put together in order to provide the claims industry with the...
Finalists are announced
British Insurance Awards
NU to widen net after review
Norwich Union has launched an online quotation facility for legal expenses insurance after it said b...
The Manchester scene
Manchester
Berkeley Burke Group acquires Sheldon Monk
East Midlands-based Berkeley Burke Group has acquired London-based Sheldon Monk, a financial adviser...
NIG offers brokers new terms
NIG is to write to its brokers advising them that they will shortly be receiving a new terms of busi...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Legal Protection
Allianz Cornhill Legal Protection has made Matt Warren business developer. He will be responsible fo...
Claims protocol raises debate
The Association of British Insurers/Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters protocol for loss adjuster...
National brokers lose market share
Figures from the Association of British Insurers indicate that the UK's largest insurance brokers ha...
Making his presence felt
Risk Report
EU funds SME risk training initiative
A pan-European project that aims to develop an internet-based risk management training programme for...
Protocol launch sparks call to stop mitigation pressure
Nick Balcombe, chief executive of the Balcombe Group, criticised the new Association of British Insu...
Royal London axes 380 retail staff
Mutual life insurer Royal London today announced 380 redundancies nationwide after it said it was to stop face-to-face selling.
Norwich Union to cut 700 life jobs
Norwich Union is to cut 700 UK jobs and 250 contract positions in a restructure of its Life business services division.
Moody’s issues CNAIC rating
Moody's has assigned an Aa3 (excellent) insurance financial strength rating to Coface North America Insurance Company (CNAIC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Coface SA. The outlook for the new rating is stable.
Mango awarded pricing prize
Don Mango, vice president of research & development at GE's Employers ReinsuranceCorporation (ERC), has been awarded the 2004 Charles A. Hachemeister Prize by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) for his paper on reinsurance pricing. The announcement of…