Commercial
Call for monitoring research.
Brian Clark's comments (No to misuse of monitoring, Post Magazine, 8 August, p8) raises several issu...
Riding the underwriting cycle.
A careful consideration of the underwriting cycle, allowing reasonably accurate predictions of future market trading conditions, can ensure enough profit is made to keep premiums down. Aash Patel gives one such strategy the green light.
Get ahead on the shop front.
Britain is a nation of shopkeepers - who all need shops insurance. However, with little to choose between the off-the-shelf packages on offer, insurers are having to pull something new out of the bag to differentiate themselves from the competition, says…
Esure insurance subsidiary of esure holdings.
Esure insurance is a subsidiary of esure holdings, which is 70% owned by HBOS Group. The remaining 3...
Appointment at Thompson Heath & Bond.
Robert Wilkinson has been taken on by Thompson Heath & Bond as group financial director. He joins fr...
Marsh restructures for commercial push.
Broker Marsh has restructured its small and medium commercial division Advantage, in a bid to win mo...
Appointment at Rubicon.
The Rubicon Corporation has recruited Victoria Hardy as director of Rubicon Dynamics. She joins the ...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Smart and Cook has appointed Simon Donnelley group claims technical manager. A chartered loss adjust...
Muress rules out shake-up for Crawford & Co.
Former McLarens Toplis group chief executive Ian Muress does not intend to implement wholesale chang...
National service.
A large number of provincial brokers are making a splash in the market, beating the bigger intermediaries at their own game because of their more flexible approach and personal service, says Rachel Gordon, who discovers that for insurers, standards are…
SSP set to target commercial.
Software provider SSP is to court the commercial market, with an expansion of its Key Choice product...
NU capacity push in SME assault.
Norwich Union plans to significantly increase its ability to underwrite commercial lines next month i...
Appointment at MCE.
Wellingborough-based insurance broker MCE has appointed Lisa Hunt to the newly-created position of t...
Folgate Partnership signs Axa in broker support venture.
The Folgate Partnership has signed Axa up to support its brokers Smithson Mason Group in Leeds and D...
Insurers set to reject flood extension.
Insurers are expected to reject calls for an extension to the existing moratorium on flood insurance...
Penny Black's insurance week.
As Penny scours the country seeking evidence of the escalating liability crisis, her friends in Bolt...
Rubicon sets up new arm.
White label insurance specialist Rubicon Corporation will this week launch a new consultancy divisio...
A positive long-term outlook.
Worldwide disasters, stock market fluctuations and government investigations into price-fixing have severely shaken the German insurance market. However, long-term prospects for the market are strong and David Fanning believes a wiser breed of insurers…
Railtrack seeks repayment.
Railtrack is hoping to recoup from insurers the £12m in compensation it paid out to victims of the P...
Brit Insurance holdings rebrands.
Brit Insurance holdings has rebranded its underwriting activity Brit Underwriting. As part of the re...
A whole different world.
What a difference a year makes. When we published our annual rankings of the world's reinsurers a ye...
Bright young thing.
This year's recipient of the British Insurance Awards Young Achiever of the Year award - Clair Hayward - stood out from the crowd, according to the judging panel. Richard Adams finds out what she puts her success down to.
"No" to misuse of monitoring.
I agree with Graeme Phipps (Combating subsidence monitoring bad press, Post Magazine, 25 July, p12) ...
Appointment at Primary Insurance.
Primary Insurance has made David Edwards its new business development manager for affinity schemes a...