Commercial
Beyond integration.
Life and pensions provider Pearl Assurance has gone live with an integrated system to connect its sa...
CGNU reports increase in new business
CGNU has recorded a 22% increase in UK new business sales to £2.2bn for the first three months of 200...
Indie shares dip as rumour mill restarts
Shares in Independent Insurance fell this morning following the news of the resignation of chief exec...
Change of focus as Alec Finch sells PI to Towergate.
Manchester-based broker Alec Finch & Co has sold its professional indemnity portfolio to Towergate U...
Dennis Tito becomes first person to require space travel insurance.
Ex-NASA aerospace engineer and stockmarket tycoon Dennis Tito became the first person to require spa...
Alarming rise in claims.
The Association of Local Authority Risk Managers' annual conference took place at Warwick University on Monday and Tuesday this week. David Worsfold was there.
Study finds bodyshop repairers dissatisfied.
Bodyshop repairers are increasingly dissatisfied with their insurer relationships and have listed re...
Wellington sees positive steps
Wellington Underwriting, which this week recorded a fall in pre-tax profits for 2000 of £3.9m compare...
GAB Robins handles claim for light aircraft crash.
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is handling a claim on behalf of insurers Allianz Cornhill and Abbey Nation...
Rating error.
Allianz Cornhill subsidiary Trafalgar is BBpi - marginal rated by Standard & Poor's and not BBpi - w...
What now for Willis?
The evolution of the largest UK-based broker - and third biggest in the world - now looks set to tak...
Theofinance to cut export costs.
A new company aims to help brokers minimise their export customers payment risk, with the launch of ...
Allianz drops brokers.
Following a three-year rationalisation drive, Allianz Cornhill's Key Partner broker club has been re...
Smart move by Willis staff.
Willis has been hit with another mass defection to Yorkshire-based rival Smart & Cook, with 18 membe...
RSA to switch commercial lines channel
Royal & Sun Alliance is to transfer existing business in commercial EDI policy classes to Enterprise,...
Top three for health.
Royal & Sun Alliance, Standard Life Healthcare and XS Health have come out as the top three internet...
Ockham denies Lovis retirement linked to poor results.
Quoted Lloyd's insurer Ockham has rebuffed suggestions it is looking to sell the business in the sam...
Hercules acquires brokers.
Hercules Property Services, the property, insurance and consultancy group, has acquired a further tw...
Appointment at Elborne Mitchell.
Bill Jarvis, a solicitor specialising in insurance and reinsurance, has moved to niche City law prac...
ABI: no rush on genetics.
Your Comment (Jumping the gun on genetic tests, Post Magazine, 5 April, p17), following the recent r...
Regulator must decide quickly where to draw membership line.
How low can it go? That is one of the main questions facing the General Insurance Standards Council ...
Better equipped?
A new chartered insurance broker qualification may be on the cards, but the industry is divided on whether it will change anything as far as improving professionalism or public opinion is concerned, says David Fanning.
Ockham denial as Lovis goes
Quoted Lloyd's insurer Ockham has rebuffed suggestions it is looking to sell the business in the same...
Wellington joins internet exchange Inreon
Wellington Underwriting has become the first Lloyd's group to join the on-line trading system Inreon,...