Commercial
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...
Appointment at Chaucer Insurance.
Four new members have been appointed to the management team of Chaucer Insurance. Geri Pedani joins ...
View from the Top - Jonathan Clark
Jonathan Clark, senior vice President, Crawford & Company It is Friday evening, 10 o'clock. As you ...
bid4mybusiness signs deals.
Internet-based insurance network bid4mybusiness has signed deals with affinity groups Team Boss, The...
Abbey Legal Protection teams up with loss assessors.
Abbey Legal Protection has teamed up with three loss assessors to target large regional and national...
BIBA seeks strategy to improve industry image.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association is seeking to combat the poor image and lack of confidenc...
Improveline set to expand network.
Managed claims service supplier improveline.co.uk aims to nationalise its network within 12 months t...
CGI releases third quarter results.
IT and business processing services provider CGI last week released third quarter results showing re...
Composite Legal Expenses secure deal.
Having designed a product to fit specific client requests, Composite Legal Expenses has secured a de...
SME push.
Lloyds TSB Insurance has relaunched its SME commercial arm with the launch of a a new Essential Busin...
Appointment at Primary Direct.
Kate Toole has been promoted from her role of customer adviser to that of marketing co-ordinator at ...
Penny Black's insurance week.
With the silly season now in full swing, Penny was once again regaled with rumours that Allianz Corn...
Appointment at CD Re-Act Building Services.
David Billington has joined CD Re-Act Building Services of Leicester as contracts manager. Qualified...
Capita eyes acquisitions.
Outsourcing giant Capita is set to announce a new long-term business strategy for its insurance serv...
Imagine rebrands
The Imagine Group of Bermuda is grouping together its reinsurance and insurance operations and rename...
Chaucer Holdings to intends to raise £39m.
Lloyd's insurer Chaucer Holdings intends to raise £39m through the issue of new ordinary shares and ...
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.
Central Fund uncertainty
Lloyd's arrangements for reinsuring its Central Fund have been thrown into uncertainty after one of t...
Combating subsidence monitoring bad press.
It is our experience that monitoring usually gets a bad press (Subsidence monitoring questioned, Pos...
Life in Merlin.
Insurance solutions provider Rubicon is looking at ways to integrate the Merlin claims handling syst...
Ticket to ride.
The private finance initiative has, for a decade now, seen the funding of projects including the London Underground, National Air Traffic Control and the Yarl's Wood detention centre. This has been just the ticket for insurers, as Rob Tucker explains.