Commercial
Markerstudy buys broker ASA
Broker-only insurance group Markerstudy International Holdings has bought broker ASA, from Axa, with ...
Independence is a misnomer
Insurer-owned assistance companies are not compromised when it comes to working for other insurers, argues Dean Harvey.
AIG Europe launches Fleet Protector
AIG Europe this week launched Fleet Protector, a new commercial motor product for UK-based companie...
Brit backs new underwriting agency
UK (re)insurer Brit has granted a binding authority to a new agency, Augsburg Re, enabling it to writ...
10 years ago
Ten years ago, Direct Line and Churchill were being primed to make major inroads into the motor sec...
Insurers pass up £25m cost-saving recovery idea
I wrote to Post Magazine some time ago (Insurers fail to respond on cost savings, PM, 13 June, p14)...
Compensation claims cost £10bn a year
The Institute of Actuaries believes compensation claims cost UK plc £10bn a year, which is over 1% ...
Brokers back OFT initiative
Brokers and small business leaders this week added their support to the Office of Fair Trading's de...
Brit targets the regions in commercial expansion
Brit Insurance, the UK company arm of Brit Insurance Holdings, intends to target the regional broke...
Cox Insurance Holdings rebuffs takeover
Lloyd's insurer Cox Insurance Holdings, which last week rebuffed a potential takeover offer from Di...
View from the Top - Peter Hubbard, chief executive, Axa Insurance UK
The announcement that the government is reviewing employers' liability insurance should give us som...
BIBA meets with DTI consultants
The British Insurance Brokers' Association met with Department of Trade and Industry-appointed cons...
NU looks to go solo on recovery
Breakdown service provider the RAC looks set to be dropped by Norwich Union, which has launched its o...
Penny Black's insurance week
Christmas is supposedly the season of goodwill, though perhaps someone should mention that to those...
Rates will not rocket in wake of Ariane crash
Premium rates in the satellite insurance market will remain high, but unchanged, following the deva...
Report by Datamonitor
Direct writers, banks and insurers with no connection to the travel industry have faired better tha...
EL: government plan criticised by MPs
The Liberal Democrats have called for a thorough analysis of the existing employers' liability land...
Government action expected
One of the recurring themes of 2002 has been compensation - in particular the increasing cost of it...
ABB seeks buyer for Sirius
Engineering giant ABB is believed to be actively seeking a buyer for its Stockholm-based reinsurer ...
UK revisits key legal issues
The UK courts tackled recurring issues such as aggregation and jurisdiction again in 2002, but some decisions increased uncertainty in areas of (re)insurance law. Dorothy Cory-Wright of law firm DJ Freeman reports.
Wanted: new parents
A significant number of the world's reinsurers must be feeling pretty unloved at the moment. Pa...
Lloyd's gets record cash
Lloyd's will have record capacity of £14.25bn ($22.4bn) for 2003, compared with £12.3bn in 2002. ...
BIBA chooses Post and Professional Broking to be media partners
The British Insurance Brokers' Association this week confirmed it has selected Post Magazine and it...
Wood set to pursue Cox
A consortium led by Direct Line founder Peter Wood was expected to persevere with a "friendly" bid ...