Commercial
Brand and deliver
Lloyd's is expected to publicise the initial findings of its 'Defining the Lloyd's Brand' exercise n...
Highway begins buying spree
Highway Retail has revealed it has three further broker acquisitions in sight, after snapping up per...
Keeping the meter running
Motor Report
Groupama confirms acceptance of risk transfer of premiums
Groupama Insurances has confirmed it will accept the risk transfer of premiums as part of a revised ...
Biba urges members to be aware of the smallprint
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has urged its members to ensure they are fully aware of t...
Appointment at Royal & Sun Alliance
Royal & Sun Alliance's engineering inspection service has made Jim Kennedy a non-destructive testing...
NU, Axa and Allianz set to pick up Zurich's Folgate book
Three leading insurers are set to take-over the Zurich share of Folgate’s commercial book.
Towergate buys agricultural portfolio
Towergate Underwriting Group has announced the purchase of the farm insurance portfolio of Taunton-based Lloyd & Whyte.
Axiom completes £21m MBO
Royal London Private Equity has announced the completion of the management buy out of Axiom Consulting for US$ 40 million (£21.78m) from broker Aon.
Highway Retail makes £4.6m broker acquisition
Personal lines specialist A Quote Insurance Services has been acquired by Highway Insurance's newly formed retail division, in a £4.6m deal.
Odyssey Re buys up Opus Re
Odyssey Re has announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement with Overseas Partners to acquire all of the capital stock of Overseas Partners US Reinsurance (Opus Re), a Delaware domiciled property and casualty reinsurer, for $43m.
Halifax General appoints new national schemes development manager
Bank of Scotland Commercial Insurance, part of Halifax General Insurance, has announced the appointment of Paul Bishop as national schemes development manager.
Swiss Re adds to Admin Re subsidiary
Swiss Re has announced that it is to acquire the shares of Life Assurance Holding Corporation, including its life insurance subsidiary Windsor Life Assurance, for £333m in cash.
The key to CLE
Commercial Legal Expenses
Major players hope to convince big is beautiful
A month ago, Post Magazine reported findings from the Association of British Insurers that claimed n...
Small players set to feel the squeeze as rivals 'offshore' insurance jobs
Smaller insurers may have to reconsider their operations as they come under increasing pressure from...
Appointment at Heath Lambert
Heath Lambert Group has appointed Martin Ecott to its specialist transportation unit within the proj...
Appointment at The Jelf Group
The Jelf Group has made Jason Rayner marketing associate. He has 13 years of marketing and communica...
THB appoints new board members
AIM-listed broking group THB has appointed a number of new board members. Group human resources dire...
Cycle proficiency
Cycle Management
Biba offers to step in over Zurich row
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has offered to intervene in the row over Zurich's decisio...
Sibthorpe takes over Brit London market division
Brit Insurance Holdings has appointed Mike Sibthorpe as underwriting director of its London Market centre, the largest of its three underwriting centres with about £600m of capacity for 2004. PLC (“Brit” or “the group”), the UK general insurance group,…
THB recruits trio for board
AIM-listed broking group THB today announced three new appointments to strengthen the board with effect from 1 July 2004. THB also announced that it intends to split the roles of chairman and chief executive, presently held by Vic Thompson, with the…
Axa in new bank tie up
National Australia Bank had awarded a travel insurance contract to Axa in the UK. Under the contract, Axa travel insurance policies will be offered to customers of the National’s four European banks – the Clydesdale Bank, Yorkshire Bank, Northern Bank…