Commercial
Appointment at Ansa.
Dave Holebrook has joined the senior management team at Ansa, the specialist drainage services compa...
DJ Pye Syndicate 962 to make claim for Yarl's Wood.
DJ Pye Syndicate 962 has until 28 March to make a claim against Bedfordshire Police, following the f...
Allianz launches motor claims tracker.
Allianz Cornhill has launched an internet-based claims tracking facility providing up-to-date inform...
Sherwood reports sharp drop in profits.
Insurance software and services provider Sherwood International has reported tumbling profits and sh...
Appointment at Veitch Penny Solicitors.
Veitch Penny Solicitors of Exeter and Crediton, has taken on Kate Winston in its Exeter Offices. Ms ...
CGNU commits to HHH despite dive.
CGNU last week posted a 41% increase in its operating profit to £2bn and announced plans to change i...
NU calls second adjuster review.
Norwich Union is embarking on a second major loss adjusting review following last summer's panel sha...
Industry internet portal must succeed this time.
Moves afoot to rejuvenate the development of an industrywide internet portal, as reported in PM last...
Rubicon closes in on acquisition targets.
Insurance services provider Rubicon is in acquisition talks with a host of companies, understood to ...
Zurich Financial Services International goes live.
Zurich Financial Services International has gone live with a communications management system from T...
Harnessing technology.
Embracing the challenge of the internet requires getting "the optimal balance between face-to-face i...
ICL e-business head leaves company.
Manjit Rana, head of e-business for ICL has left the company. Mr Rana said he hoped to remain in the...
Hill House Hammond Business acquires Galloway Whitfield and Co.
Hill House Hammond Business has acquired independent commercial intermediary Galloway Whitfield and ...
Folgate ready for take-off.
Andy Homer, who this week took over as chief executive of start-up the Folgate Partnership, talked to Anthony Gould about the company's ambitious plans.
Rates increase for P&I clubs.
Marine mutual protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs were expected to win rate increases of 20-30% in ...
Global call for entries.
Entries for this year's British Insurance Awards - open to individuals and companies operating in Lon...
Inreon has joined the global insurance standards organisation Acord.
On-line reinsurance trading system Inreon has joined the global insurance standards organisation Aco...
Reinsurance hits reality.
It is a strange anomaly that reinsurance touches every aspect of 21st century life yet is largely ig...
Insurers' utopian vision does not exist.
Seldom do I feel the need to write to the press, but Brian Clark's letter (PM, 14 February, p10) can...
Keen to broker change.
In his first two months as the new chief executive of Fortis, Barry Smith has already made pro-active moves to improve broker relations, here, he tells Lynn Rouse why.
Let the cover fit the crime.
The new criminal offence of corporate killing is set to become law later this year. This could have serious implications for providers of directors' & officers' and liability covers, warns Veronica Cowan.
Experiencing a loss of direction?
Volume claims handling and other cost-cutting exercises have put the future of loss adjusting in serious doubt. There is, however, no substitute for experience, skills and qualifications, asserts David Fanning.
Pressure mounts over lack of terrorism cover.
Terrorism cover, or rather the lack of it, was in the news again this week. As the Association of In...
JLT plans to accelerate move to outsourcing.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson is set to grow its outsourcing operation, which already accounts for 21% of i...