Commercial
Rebriefs - Brit Insurance.
Brit Insurance has combined its Lloyd's and non-Lloyd's underwriting operations under the name Brit ...
Appointment at Ace Asset Management.
Former managing director of the North American insurance practice of rating agency Standard & Poor's...
NIG adds commercial vehicle product.
NIG has added a commercial vehicle product to InsurE-com's portal, allowing policy information to be...
Wellington Re recruits team of US underwriters.
Wellington Re, established in June, has recruited a team of US casualty reinsurance underwriters fro...
Teams warm up for PM's five-a-side.
Post Magazine is running its second five-a-side football competition on Sunday 29 September at The G...
Resolving the catch-22 situation surrounding EL.
John Parker, head of general insurance at the Association of British Insurers, wrote in Post Magazine recently that "the current system for providing employers' liability insurance has reached a crossroads". However, risk managers claim many of the…
Bluesure nets 350 brokers and now turns attention to high net worth.
Insurer Bluesure this week confirmed that over 350 brokers are selling its multi-product personal li...
Midlands broker buys second firm.
Redditch-based broker Martin and Pethard has acquired Apex Insurance Consultants, of Droitwich Spa, ...
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...