Commercial
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is not a great fan of dressing down and was not surprised to hear that men are facing new peri...
European Football Championships costly for insurers.
Not everybody can be a winner and France's recent victory in the European Football Championships has...
NU hails global cab.
A Norwich Union-insured Metrocab has set off on a journey around the world to raise money for sight-...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A couple whose business collapsed and who face losing their home launched a £...
London player makes a bid for the regions.
Ambitious London market insurer The Underwriter is set to treble its agency base with the opening of...
Dilemma facing broker market.
It is a sad truth that Nick O'Farrell is right ('Insurers are ruining broker relations', PM 22 June,...
Appointment at MMA Insurance.
MMA Insurance has taken on Scott Nelson as a non-executive director. Mr Nelson has many years' ex...
Royal London to axe a further 300 jobs.
A further 300 jobs are to be lost following Royal London's acquisition of United Assurance in April...
Bosses letting down teenage staff.
According to a survey by Norwich Union, 80% of small businesses are failing to carry out correct hea...
Plane'n'easy online quotes.
High street brokers could move into the general aviation market following the launch this week of an...
Win athletics tickets.
The excitement is building for a great summer of athletics and sports fans have an array of top comp...
Liability launch.
Fusion, the web-based subsidiary of SVB Holdings, has launched an employment practices liability ins...
That is, an iE deal.
Generali International, a subsidiary of the Generali Group, has announced a new contract with e-fina...
SLPH delisted as Axa pays £2.3bn for subsidiary
French insurance group Axa's buyout of the minority shareholding in its UK subsidiary Sun Life & Prov...
Trust is key to insurance e-commerce
Insurers need to cultivate trust among young consumers in order to increase insurance sales over the ...
Financial services industry confidence falls
Business confidence among financial service firms has fallen for the first time in the last 18 months...
Chartwell teams join The Underwriter
Insurer The Underwriter, has recruited two teams of UK regional general liability underwriters from C...
Appointment at August Group.
Solutions provider August has appointed Jack Massarano to lead its e-commerce development team. Prev...
Masters of reinvention.
High praise indeed for new improved Wren Life, for its clever combination of traditional professionalism with the latest technology and best practice, says Marcus Alcock.
Axa in the fast lane.
Axa UK chief executive Mark Wood competed with racing legends Stirling Moss and Barry Sheene at the ...
GISC opens its doors.
Now the General Insurance Standards Council has opened its doors, with the unequivocal endorsement o...
Lift off for network.
Problem: Willis had minimal penetration in the SME sector and provincial brokers were losing leverage with insurers. Tim Collison discovers the enter-prising solution that the company came up with.
Masters of disasters.
It is fitting that in a year when the issue of rail safety reached a head with the Paddington train crash, the loss adjuster of the year award should be given to a specialist rail division, writes Jonathan Swift.
Marketplace launched.
Post Magazine has launched a new service for readers to help them find and then get in touch with sp...