Commercial
EL: who stands to gain?
The attack by claimant law firm Thompsons on the British Insurance Brokers' Association's proposals ...
BIBA's liability plans branded a "smokescreen".
Claimant solicitors Thompsons has branded the British Insurance Brokers' Association's proposals to ...
RSA needs time to act.
The speculation over the future of Royal & Sun Alliance and its chief executive Bob Mendelsohn seems...
A head for heights.
As global risks escalate, the attraction of enhanced risk management packages increases. For those keen to scale the heights, the opportunity is there to raise the profile of risk, while helping to bring insurance costs back down to earth, says Guy…
Appointment at Heath Lambert.
Heath Lambert Insurance Services has created several new positions, following a re-structure of its ...
Appointment at Wellington Re.
Wellington Re has recruited a team of US casualty underwriters. Mike Clifton, Ian Oakley and Stephen...
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…