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Software move.
BIBA has appointed technology consultants Garol to develop an independent broker software benchmarki...
Tests get a fair hearing.
I was interested to see the health and safety case study involving FM Green, recommending the conduc...
Staying afloat.
Smaller businesses are still failing to take precautionary measures to prevent their businesses going under in the wake of a disaster. Insurers and brokers need to emphasise the life-line business continuity cover can offer, says Jane Bernstein.
Heath Lambert offers Diabetes cover.
Charity organisation Diabetes UK has signed an agreement with UK insurance broker Heath Lambert Grou...
Dishonesty decision.
Mortgage Express v S Newman & Co; (Chancery Division - judgement: 1 March 2001).
Brokers face confusing IT choice.
The commercial lines sector is set to undergo massive change in the next year as insurers, faced wit...
Weather Direct and HSBC in joint launch.
London-based insurer Weather Direct has teamed up with HSBC Insurance Brokers to launch EventMaster,...
New auto network.
Auto Indemnity, provider of no-fault accident management services, has teamed up with Fleet Accident...
Brit profits jump.
Brit Insurance Holdings has reported pre-tax profits of £1.5m for the year ending 31 December 2000, ...
Insurers' digital status called into question.
Norwich Union and Misys, which offer personal lines insurance as part of cable TV network NTL's TV c...
Delegates take centre stage.
When Adrian Leonard attended the second biennial Dublin insurance conference in March, he found that it was the delegates themselves that provided the most informative feedback.
Direct benefit for Munich Re.
Munich Re has claimed that the proposed complex restructuring of German financial firms, in which Eu...
News in brief.
Employers Re has bought CyberComp from Reliance Insurance for an undisclosed sum. CyberComp will quo...
Zurich casts off reinsurer.
Zurich Financial Services is to spin off its subsidiary Zurich Re, which it describes as "an odd ma...
Go for broke.
Those brokers that are already in the vanguard of alternative risk transfer are finding that the gains far outweigh the risks, says David Fanning.
Openness beats secrecy.
It is a dilemma that faces every business: how to strike the right balance between showing off your ...
Too many brokers chasing too little work
There are too many provincial brokers handling too little business, Hugh Warren, chief executive of W...
Reinsurance falls but profits up at Berkley
Berkley Corporation has reported first quarter revenues for 2001 of $449m (£310m), a 6% increase on t...
Appointment at Actinic.
Actinic, the SME e-commerce software specialist, has appointed Nick Kington as its marketing directo...
CGNU profits at home and abroad.
The UK's largest insurer CGNU has recorded a 22% increase in UK new business sales to £2.2bn for the...
NU threatens the luddites.
UK insurer Norwich Union plans to focus on "key brokers" according to Patrick Snowball, executive di...
Silence from JLT over sale.
Lloyd's broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has refused to comment on speculation it could be sold off by ...
What Jury?
During my many years of loss-assessing I have never ever encountered the Jury which is referred to i...
Will it be the same old faces in Belfast?
This week's British Insurance Brokers Association annual conference in Belfast comes at a time of ra...