Commercial
Zurich cuts back on French business
Zurich Financial Services has decided to withdraw from most lines of business in France to focus on ...
THB claims fleet leadership
Lloyd's broker THB, which last week announced a 49% growth in turnover to £22.9m and a pre-tax profi...
Date of experts' knowledge overlooked
Graham v Entec Europe (Court of Appeal - 6 August 2003)
Customer Management - Assessing your position
Strategic Focus
Wholesaling - Buying in bulk
Strategic Focus
View from the Top - Andrew Torrance, chief executive, Allianz Cornhill
Expense efficiency and control never leave a chief executive's agenda. Now, though, they face diffic...
Appointment at George Burrows
Peter Drummond has been appointed chairman and Rob Constable managing director of the leading affini...
Aon warns on polarisation
Monte Carlo News
Appointment at BWP
Bray Wintour Patis has made two senior management appointments. David Green becomes commercial direc...
Ri3k names six of the cedent companies
Ri3k has named six of the cedent companies who will be placing treaty business through the platform ...
E-business - Round-the-clock e-business
Strategic Focus
Cullum splits CEO role
Towergate chief executive and chairman Peter Cullum is to split his role, passing the mantle of chie...
Folgate acquires commercial broker Vulcan
Folgate has acquired Kent-based commercial broker Vulcan, which has a premium income of £6m. The Vul...
Welcoming in new blood
New Companies
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Legal Protection
Sheena MacGregor has been appointed head of the Lawphone department at Allianz Cornhill Legal Protec...
Mis-selling claim hit by aggregation failure
Lloyds TSB General Insurance Holdings v Lloyds Bank Group Insurance Company (House of Lords - 31 July 2003)
New reinsurers prosper in difficult market
New reinsurers are prospering in the difficult post-11 September 2001 market, according to rating age...
Halifax General Insurance launches healthcare products.
Halifax General Insurance has launched three new low-cost healthcare products - Personal Accident Pl...
View from the Top - Peter Hubbard, chief executive, Axa Insurance UK.
It is increasingly clear to me that, as an industry, we have a responsibility to make sure our busin...
Takeover target HLF admits rationalisation.
Broker Heath Lambert's UK regional office network looks set to be slimmed down as part of the compan...
Sectornet: HML quote system is "a first".
Broker software supplier, Sectornet, has developed a web-enabled, full-cycle commercial combined pro...
A bad time to lose its head.
While the British Insurance Brokers' Association is to be congratulated for doing its utmost to find...
Budget turns to e-mail to boost business.
Budget Insurance Services, which last month signed a deal to administer home insurance for Bradford ...
The time is now.
Underwriters need to make better use of real-time business intelligence to reduce risk calculation time, says Jeremy Hill.