Commercial
Appointment at Green Flag Group.
Green Flag has expanded its affinity sales team by appointing Chris Knott as its new business develo...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Groupama Insurances has appointed Neil Woodhouse as project implementation manager of its sales and ...
Next generation.
Risk software specialist Line International last week unveiled the next generation of its risk manag...
Lloyd's hit by fraud, again.
Tens of thousands of policyholders may have been duped into buying worthless cover for a range of pr...
Keeping your eye on the ball.
As insurers look to outsourcing companies to add value to their services, allowing them to beef up their core competencies, the fear is that in the third-party scrum, they will be unable to safeguard service levels or protect their brands. David Fanning…
JLT averts costly legal action
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has come to an out of court agreement over its dispute with American de...
Appointment at Axa Sun Life.
Axa Sun Life has appointed Nina Glass and Duncan Mosely to senior positions within the company's bus...
Claims conference: click into the e-age.
Two one-day conferences presented back to back will together give the claims professional a complete...
Five-a-side cup-winners.
Twenty rain-soaked teams took part in Post Magazine's first charity five-a-side football tournament ...
Appointment at P&I Club.
Three members of the UK P&I Club have been elected to the board of directors. They are Adamantios Le...
Quest for new risk.
Liability adjusters the Quest Gates Partnership has launched a new risk management division. With he...
Lincoln goes live.
Lincoln Financial Group has gone live with its revamped corporate website at www.lincolnuk.co.uk. Th...
Write to reply.
As our lives become more hectic, many of us are turning to e-mail to contact call centres with our out-of-hours queries. Insurers could lose out if they do not get to grips with the electronic postal service, says Steve Payne.
View from the top - Patrick Snowball
Patrick Snowball, chief executive, Norwich Union Insurance. The demise of Independent Insurance gen...
SAP division targets UK insurers.
German technology giant SAP is to create a dedicated insurance division to target the UK general ins...
NU does its bit on start-up safety site.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Insurers duped by "fad".
Fraud detection by telephone voice stress analysis has been branded "foolhardy" by a senior academic...
What the Papers Say.
FINANCIAL TIMES The chances of Royal & Sun Alliance finding a buyer for its struggling life insur...
Amlin agrees credit with State Farm.
Lloyd's insurer Amlin has reached agreement with US-based State Farm, an existing shareholder, for t...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Dress down has never quite been Penny's style, but when it comes to dressing up for the evening, han...
The party's over.
The many events cancelled in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 11 September have put added strain on contingency insurers - already suffering because of the recent floods and foot and mouth outbreaks. A widespread rethinking of cover is happening,…
Pro-activity pays off in rehab cases.
Pro-active management of low-value claims pays off, claimed Paul Donnelly, general secretary of the ...
Genetic threat for insurers.
The government has warned the insurance industry that it will use legislation to enforce the extende...
Healthy options to rival Bupa.
An online insurance intermediary aims to put an end to Bupa's domination of the private health marke...