Commercial
Online claims move by Axa Corporate
Axa Corporate Solutions has launched a new extranet service for its clients and brokers which provide...
Call for EU opening.
Chairmen and chief executives from leading European insurers and banks have got together to press fo...
A single act or several?
In the second of two articles focusing on aggregation, John Butler reviews a case in which an assured was entitled to aggregate claims.
Local authorities given formal warning
The majority of local authorities do not have formal processes in place needed to advise elected memb...
Giant Allianz eager for more
German insurer Allianz, which is now the fourth-largest financial group - behind Citigate, AIG and HS...
CII cashes in on web.
Business transacted via the Chartered Insurance Institute's website has hit the £250,000 mark for th...
Appointment at Beale and Company.
Beale and Company has created two new partners. Lyndon Richards and Cathy Smith, both of whom qualif...
Bupa and Old Mutual alliance spawns CareNet.
Bupa International and Old Mutual Healthcare have joined forces to distribute a new international he...
Silverbeck teams up with Highway.
Liverpool-based law firm Silverbeck Rymer has teamed up with motor insurer Highway Insurance to crea...
Brit sees profit rise.
Brit Insurance Holdings subsidiary Brit Insurance has recorded a 65% rise in overall gross written p...
B&B go to Market.
Bradford & Bingley has launched a new intermediary division The Marketplace offering a range of insu...
CAT threat to long-term care.
A leading actuary has called on the government not to impose the Cover, Access and Terms standards t...
Insurance Now or maybe later.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
First for TV quotes.
First Quote is to offer ONdigital's ONnet customers insurance products. It follows last year's de...
Groupama snaps up web-based claims service.
Groupama Insurances has signed a deal with U-plex, UK subsidiary of e-commerce specialist Plexus Int...
Appointment at ICL.
ICL, the e-business services company, has taken on insurance specialist Manjit Rana to strengthen it...
Insurers banking on Stakeholder.
Next week's introduction of stakeholder pensions has so far resulted in a flurry of activity by UK-b...
NU to reveal panel.
Norwich Union's new loss adjuster panel will be announced in a month's time, a spokesman for the com...
Zurich to offer training for broker support.
Zurich's commercial business unit is to run a range of training programmes for all levels of its bro...
Munich Re could join in German companies' restructuring
Munich Re looks likely to buy the 18% stake in Germany's second-largest bank, HypoVereinsbank, held b...
St Paul's Petrobras loss limited to $5m
The St Paul Companies says that its economic loss from the sinking earlier this month of Brazil's big...
Travel cover on site.
Screentrade, the online broker product from Misys Interactive Trading, has gone live with travel ins...
RSA texts on claims.
Royal & Sun Alliance policyholders can now receive updates on the progress of their claims via text ...
Countryside checks.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has warned customers to check their travel insurance poli...