Commercial
Brit outlines profit and loss
Brit Insurance Holdings has recorded a pre-tax profit for the first half of this year and reconfirmed...
Axa moves into Aberdeen
Axa has opened a new commercial business branch in Aberdeen. The branch will concentrate on small to ...
Lloyd's WTC liability revealed
Lloyd's is liable for $683m of the $3.55bn property and business interuption programme for the World ...
CD sets aside £5m.
Personal injury specialist Claims Direct has set aside £5m to compensate 19,000 customers who took o...
Climate Change conference.
Post Magazine's Climate Change conference was promoted in conjunction with the Society of Fellows, w...
MMT goes for Gold.
London-based solutions company MMT Computing has become a member of the Microsoft Gold Certified Par...
Insurers deny Helphire claim.
Credit hire company Help-hire this week said it had been given the green light to collect an estimate...
Messages must be repeated.
The insurance industry and its service suppliers responded well to the autumn and winter floods, cla...
Brit faces losses of up to £70m
Brit Insurance Holdings has announced it expects its exposure to the attacks last week on the US, mai...
Staying in credit.
Credit insurance is growing in importance as the current economic slowdown continues. However, many companies are not adequately protecting themselves and insurers are having to write new solutions to the old debt risk problems to encourage take-up, says…
Post site nominated.
Post Magazine's latest internet service insurancewindow.net has been nominated in the prestigious PP...
... for advice.
Banks are currently leading the way in internet selling, but insurers can gain ground if they start ...
Flood defences.
Graeme Bell, vice president of the Town & Country Planning Association, said it fully supported the ...
Euro to bring big opportunities.
Transport underwriters should view the introduction of the euro as an opportunity, rather than a thr...
Appointment at Friends Provident.
Friends Provident has appointed Graham Harvey as director of marketing. Based in Salisbury, Mr Ha...
Minibus Plus MBO.
Minibus insurance provider Minibus Plus has been bought out by its management, following the purchas...
US tragedy: news updates
Post Magazine and its sister titles would like to extend their condolences to all those who have lost...
Fortis makes affinity deals.
Following last year's appointment onto Lloyds TSB's panel of household insurers, Fortis UK has signed...
Bruce Stevenson: ambitious plans.
Edinburgh insurance broker Bruce Stevenson this week announced ambitious growth targets and a new bo...
US banks to dominate finances.
The US banking industry is poised to dominate domestic financial services over the next decade, acqu...
NU unveils academy.
Norwich Union has revealed details of its academy to hone the skills of more than 4000 of its underw...
Adjust and thrive.
As more and more risks to corporates come out of the woodwork, attracting ever higher claims, risk ma...
ABI: pay-off review.
The Association of British Insurers is expected to look into whether it can devise contract guidelin...
Sharpen up.
With insurance costs rising, brokers would be wise to sharpen up their risk management skills, as they could prove lucrative. Failure to do so, says Rachel Gordon, could prove to be a costly mistake.