Commercial
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...
Rubicon sets up new arm.
White label insurance specialist Rubicon Corporation will this week launch a new consultancy divisio...
A positive long-term outlook.
Worldwide disasters, stock market fluctuations and government investigations into price-fixing have severely shaken the German insurance market. However, long-term prospects for the market are strong and David Fanning believes a wiser breed of insurers…
Railtrack seeks repayment.
Railtrack is hoping to recoup from insurers the £12m in compensation it paid out to victims of the P...
Brit Insurance holdings rebrands.
Brit Insurance holdings has rebranded its underwriting activity Brit Underwriting. As part of the re...
A whole different world.
What a difference a year makes. When we published our annual rankings of the world's reinsurers a ye...
Bright young thing.
This year's recipient of the British Insurance Awards Young Achiever of the Year award - Clair Hayward - stood out from the crowd, according to the judging panel. Richard Adams finds out what she puts her success down to.
"No" to misuse of monitoring.
I agree with Graeme Phipps (Combating subsidence monitoring bad press, Post Magazine, 25 July, p12) ...
Appointment at Primary Insurance.
Primary Insurance has made David Edwards its new business development manager for affinity schemes a...
Wise-up to back-up.
Do insurers and brokers always practise what they preach over the need for robust disaster recovery and IT back-up plans? Simon Threadgold investigates the industries own risk management strategies.
ALM says Lloyd's set to release Names profits early.
In an unusual step for the market, Lloyd's could soon announce an early release of profits to beleag...
When BS does not always mean fit for consumption.
Britvic Soft Drinks v Messer; (Court of Appeal - 30 April 2002).
S&P's Don Watson joins Ace
Don Watson, managing director of rating agency Standard & Poor's North American insurance practice, h...
Indie run-off arm sale talks start
Aurora Corporate Services, set up to run off the Independent Insurance estate, is to be sold, Post Ma...
Pushing the right buttons
If insurers fail to push policyholders' buttons regarding online claims services, customers will go to providers that do make the best use of the web-enabled technology, believes Jim Douglas.
Gerling Global Re faces uncertainty over future
The fate of Gerling Global Re (GGRe) remained unclear as Reinsurance went to press, following the ann...
JLT profits rise by 20%
UK broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson does not intend to make any more disposals during the course of th...