Commercial
RePeople - Appointment at Odyssey America Re.
Odyssey America Re has appointed Stephen Van de Graaf senior vice-president of non-traditional busin...
Heed the warnings.
With their third quarter results hit hard by losses from the World Trade Centre attacks, reinsurers ...
ReBriefs - Aon and Jardine Lloyd Thompson blacklisted by ICFTU.
Brokers Aon and Jardine Lloyd Thompson are among 250 companies 'blacklisted' by the International Co...
WTC lawsuits under way.
The 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre (WTC) have so far given rise to four lawsuits rel...
Jago announces drop in capacity of 205
Jago Managing Agency has announced that its Lloyd's syndicate 205 will have a stamp capacity of £80m ...
Gorna merger on.
Law firm Hill Dickinson, whose head office is in Liverpool, is to merge with niche Manchester-based ...
Scott aids JLT.
Former CGNU group chief executive Bob Scott is set to resurface at broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson as ...
Just a blur?
This year may have been a bit of a blur for some brokers. Although hit by a series of shocks - from September's US terrorist attacks to the collapse of Independent and Andrew Paddick's shock victory against GISC - the sector is still running on a full…
BIBA and GISC are a disgrace.
Last year, we were appointed as brokers to a client that had sacked its existing broker mid-term. Th...
On the right track.
Fundamental changes in the market this year have meant a bumpy ride for loss adjusters. With panel shake-ups, outsourcing, insourcing, closures and reshuffles, they have had to cling on tight and think in terms of strategic repositioning to avoid coming…
Axa to meet BIBA.
Axa is to meet with the British Insurance Brokers' Association by the end of the week to discuss its...
View from the top - Robert Hiscox
Robert Hiscox, chairman, Hiscox Nostalgia is one of the four most persistent killers of a business ...
RSA in £450m deal with IBM
Royal and Sun Alliance has outsourced the management and development of its UK information technology...
Don't delay if you get a stay.
Claimant solicitors must be wary of delaying proceedings - even where liability is conceded, the Cou...
Norton Rose sued.
City law firm Norton Rose is being sued for more than £1m by the New Millennium Experience Company o...
Down on paper.
Recent updates to legislation mean paper files are now covered by the Data Protection Act. This, along with other legal changes that are stacking up against the commercial sector, will force brokers and insurers to tread very carefully, warns Simon…
Insurers should go public on code performance.
Insurers must allow for individual companies performance on the Association of British Insurer's Clai...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill.
Russ Hargreaves has become national broker manager - Manchester at Allianz Cornhill. He will be resp...
Appointment at DWL.
DWL, a provider of real-time enterprise customer management applications, has made John Baumstark it...
Appointment at Rarrigini & Rosso Group.
Broker services support provider Rarrigini & Rosso Group has appointed Chris Conway as non-executive...
RSA set to cut branches.
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance is expected to close down Property & Casualty Services' 12-strong branch...
Axa will relent claims BIBA.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association said it was confident Axa will back down over proposed cut...
Pulling together.
While lone brokers fish around for business in an increasingly tough market, networks are gaining ground as the most effective way for forward-thinking intermediaries to work with their peers and net themselves the best deals, says David Fanning.
Launch of new syndicate Ascot Underwriting.
Maurice Greenberg, chairman of AIG, left, and Sax Riley, chairman of Lloyd's, met last week as the U...