Commercial
Inside information.
The intranet has come of age and firms that use this time- and cost-saving resource to best effect experience significant benefits. Not surprisingly, many insurance companies are looking into the business advantages this internal communication tool can…
Brokers lose another mid-corporate ally.
Brokers will face an even harder task to place certain risks in the commercial market following Grou...
EiStream and Room Solutions sign alliance.
Business process solutions provider eiStream and Room Solutions have signed a strategic alliance. Ei...
Admiral succeeds with Claims Outcome Advisor.
Admiral has successfully implemented Claims Outcome Advisor, a personal injury claims management sol...
Regency plans further growth on back of warranty arm sale.
Regency Insurance Brokers is planning to set up another volume niche business, following the sale of...
Insurers bear the liability.
Insurers have decided to reduce the cost of fire and flood claims by providing claimants with nomina...
Inspop set to expand.
Online intermediary Inspop.com is set to expand its range of financial services products outside gen...
Watch your step.
Insurers should remember that if they contract builders to deal with clients' repairs, they are liable should any H&S slip-ups occur, warns Nigel Blacow.
Securitisation common within "five years"
The convergence of financial and (re)insurance expertise to securitise risk is set to become a well-e...
Allianz Cornhill is working with the ISMM.
Following the accreditation of its Underwriting Academy by the Chartered Insurance Institute, Allian...
Giles signs travel website deal.
Giles Insurance Brokers has signed a deal with travel trade registration website www.theregister.net...
Striking a blow for panels.
The panels of damage management specialists used by many major insurers seem to have hit the spot in terms of speed and quality of response. Now the idea is being taken up by the smaller players, keen to take a swing at the market. David Fanning…
Small and medium-sized businesses have been alerted.
Small and medium-sized businesses have been alerted to the threat of fraud in a study published by t...
Investigating and reserving subsidence claims - 18 June 2002 - The
Subsidence poses an enormous challenge to insurers, loss adjusters and a wide range of specialist co...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Set up by Zurich London as an information source for its customers, this is a simple little site tha...
Delay protocol is timely move.
The Society of Construction Law's Protocol for Determining Extensions of Time & Compensation for Del...
Groupama to lose 130 staff as it refocuses on SME sector
Groupama Insurance is to pull out of mid-market corporate commercial insurance lines, closing ten of...
Marcus Hearn launches an updated airline failure insurance.
London broker Marcus Hearn has launched an updated version of its airline failure insurance in the w...
25 years ago.
Technology is cited by many insurers - including Axa this week - as the great hope for the future, a...
Warren Hill Insurance Brokers opens sixth regional office.
Warren Hill Insurance Brokers has opened a sixth Regional Office in Colchester, Essex, joining those...
Ball games.
Staff and their children at Bristol-based legal expenses insurer DAS and broker Hill House Hammond p...
Global Re's parent postpones share offer
Global Preferred Holdings, the US-based parent of the Bermudian life reinsurer Global Preferred Re, h...
Odyssey Re reports 60% growth in premiums
A hardening market and a focus on more profitable lines of business helped US-based reinsurer Odyssey...
Upping competence on underwriting.
Training is widely perceived as the most effective way to raise competence levels across the industry and so prevent underwriting losses. Richard Adams looks at how insurers are implementing such schemes.