Commercial
dotRisk signs up financial partners.
Internet company dotRisk has signed up broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group and insurer Ace Global Ma...
In the best of health.
Employers are being forced to increase the benefits they offer their employees in the scramble for skilled personnel, and group income protection is one of the ideal candidates, as David Fanning discovers.
Climate for change.
The reinsurance renewal season will soon be underway, and this year's major thrust, for those that have weathered the storm, will be to work towards the long-awaited and much-needed upturn in the market. Eric Alexander reports.
Brit down but looking up
Brit Insurance Holdings has recorded a pre-tax loss of £13.7m for the first six months of this year, ...
Crowe to close down two syndicates
Crowe Syndicate Management plans to close two syndicates following a strategic review for the 2001 ye...
RSA property unit on the move
Royal and Sun Alliance is moving its 80-strong property investors unit out of its offices in Shaftesb...
What's it worth?
John Ball, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters has been reported in PM as saying ...
Changes up north.
Insurer Northwestern Mutual is to rebrand itself as part of a $25m (£16m) marketing campaign as a ma...
Let's get together.
A new improved relationship is being built between independent financial advisers and insurers. In the future, IFAs could at last see improved products, as well as improved support from their providers. David Fanning gets the lowdown.
NU set to monitor IFAs' satisfaction.
Norwich Union hopes to raise the profile of its fledgling retail investment arm by becoming one of t...
An injection of life for UBS AG.
Swiss banking group UBS AG is setting up its own life insurance firm which will first target its hom...
Dial Direct calls up Pinnacle.
Coventry-based intermediary Dial Direct has entered the pet insurance market with the help of an est...
InsureStream: a steady flow.
Online insurance market, InsureStream, has been launched in the UK by US company e-Insurance Systems...
Premiums decline rapidly.
Marine insurance premiums declined in 1999 according to statistics presented by Tore Forsmo, managin...
IFAs cry for help.
In response to the high demand from IFAs for practical help with their reviews of free-standing addi...
Don't believe the HRA hype.
Ian Gascoigne, a partner in the commercial litigation group of European law firm Eversheds spoke to Marcus Alcock about his thoughts on the Human Rights Act.
Leagold Miller goes plastic.
Broker Leagold Miller has gone live with its insuranceforplastics.com product which is aimed at plas...
Insurance industry haunted by past deeds.
The insurance industry - including the Financial Services Authority - has once again been labelled a...
Phone deal for Cornhill.
Insurer Allianz Cornhill has joined up with BT CommSure to boost its new business recovery service, ...
A healthy option.
Opus Holdings' new division Opus Health and Safety has acquired the business of Ashborne Hill Manage...
Our football ticket give away is back.
Post Magazine's ever popular football ticket giveaway is about to get even bigger. Run in conjunc...
L&G pioneers e-standards.
Legal & General has launched what it claims is the first product for which common internet trading s...
Driven by finance.
For credit insurers the key parts of their business often vary between credit management and specific claims cover. Andrew Newman takes a look at the trends in a thriving industry.
Claims managers miss out on internet revolution says Post survey
Over 80% of claims managers questioned by Post Magazine do not have an internet-based claims handling...