Commercial
Opinion courts judicial delay
A new company, Opinion Insurance Services, has launched a judicial delay insurance policy in co-oper...
Disability product goes online.
Wholesale disability insurer Goodfellows has launched a website for brokers and independent financia...
Postcode rating via the internet.
Internet specialist insurE-com this week claimed it had become the first company to use postcode rat...
TV times two for Pru.
Prudential has announced its second interactive television deal with Kingston Interactive TV to offe...
Axa motors online.
Axa Insurance has launched a new website to cater for the increasing demand for online motor cover. ...
Easyclaims.com plans to advertise on interactive TV.
Easyclaims.com. the internet-based no win, no fee multi-claims handling service launched last month,...
CNA strikes IT deal.
US-based insurer CNA is to dramatically extend its net of commercial insurance agents, brokers and p...
E-life in 20 questions.
Permanent Insurance, which has been put up for sale by parent Equitable Life, has expanded its e-com...
Brokers in MP deal.
Three brokers are being considered by the House of Commons to cater for the insurance needs of MPs a...
Edgar Hamilton rebranded.
Guaranteeing broker Edgar Hamilton is to be rebranded under its parent company Sterling Insurance Gr...
Equitable: only itself to blame.
There is no excuse for the demise of Equitable Life. Its ultimate failure was of its own making. The...
A landmark year.
The demise of the SIF, panel reviews, the introduction of the Human Rights Act, the credit hire ruling. Marcus Alcock dips a toe into the pool of legal highlights that have caused a splash in 2000 and made it a year many will not forget in a hurry.
Quote appointment.
Online insurance intermediary Quote and Buy has recruited David Hayward, former chief executive for ...
Sportsure kick-off.
A footballer, whose identity is being kept secret, has been awarded a six-figure sum following a car...
Risks on the home front.
I was interested to read the article Pay Back Time (Post Magazine, 16 November, p26), which focused ...
Max Taylor moves to head up Aon
Max Taylor, outgoing chairman of Lloyd's is to join broker Aon from 2 January on a full-time basis as...
Footballer gets six-figure sum
A footballer, whose identity is being kept secret, has been awarded a six-figure sum following a care...
TV to take over.
Interactive digital television will be the main distribution channel in five year's time, according ...
Whitespace has power at Lloyd's.
Whitespace Software claimed this week that it now powers over one third of the total syndicate capac...
Baltic set for e-link.
The shipping market, the Baltic Exchange, is considering establishing a maritime portal that would p...
Boots sign up Inter.
Boots the chemist has signed up Hampshire-based insurance intermediary, Inter Group, to help boost s...
Millennium growth.
Millennium Insurance, which has re-focused on the mortgage market, has appointed five regional manag...
Tracking each move.
A new low-cost fleet management telematics system has been launched by Tracker Network. Tracker Repo...
Claims Direct disputes row.
Personal injury specialist Claims Direct insisted it was looking to work more closely with the insur...