Commercial
Floods affect quotes.
Screentrade reports that insurers are declining to quote for new business in flood hit areas. Editor...
Coleman beats big players to lifeboat contract.
Dorset-based insurance broker E Coleman & Company has beaten off broking giants Marsh, HSBC and incu...
Indie hunts CEO.
Independent Insurance plans to look outside the company to find a replacement for chairman and chief ...
Arthur up by 40%.
Arthur J Gallagher increased its net profit by 40% year-on-year to $23.5m (£16m) in the first quarte...
MPP injects a little AirFusion.
MPP Global Solutions has launched a consumer focused internet service AirFusion to cater for the pro...
Transatlantic Holdings shows little improvement
Transatlantic Holdings has posted first quarter net income for 2001of $48.5m (£33.4m), compared to $4...
BIBA appoints Garol to vet broking systems
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has appointed technology consultants Garol to develop an i...
Brit jumps into the black
Brit Insurance Holdings, the parent of Brit Insurance, has reported pre-tax profits of £1.5m for 2000...
Fortis ups anchors on yacht business
Fortis is to withdraw from the yacht and pleasure boat sector and is to cease underwriting the busine...
Bright resigns as chief executive at Independent
Michael Bright, chairman and chief executive of Independent Insurance has resigned from his post and ...
McGrath takes helm.
Marsh UK's regional director Tom McGrath, pictured, has been appointed as the new chairman of the No...
CIM in Glagow move.
US-based Davox Corporation, provider of customer inter-action management (CIM) solutions, this week ...
The right solution.
Broker-specific application service providers allow brokers to put the IT debate behind them and focus on what they do best - bringing in business, argues Julie Rodilosso.
Cook: recovery move.
Joe Cook has joined his former Relectronic-Remech colleagues Paul Steventon, Simon Walker, Roger Smi...
Sherwood in Deloitte deal.
IT solution provider Sherwood International is set to make a major play for the worldwide general in...
Redundancy threat hangs over insurance sector.
Just over 50% of staff working in insurance companies and brokers worry about the threat of redundan...
Debt day looms.
Insurers that have refused to settle their bad debt with credit hire company Helphire, believe they ...
Training gets on track.
Brokers are becoming more receptive to the idea of training their staff, and with the introduction of GISC rules on the competence levels of brokers, it's vital they take it on board quickly. There is no shortage of courses on offer, says Catherine…
Broker e-volution.
The electronic revolution is well underway and is progressively furnishing the broking industry with new business models, better communication and cost-cutting automation, but, asks Edward Murray, who are the real beneficiaries?
Norwich Union bags more and more exposure.
I recently ordered a sandwich for my lunch and it was delivered in a bag on which Norwich Union Dire...
A little help from your friends.
Networking is a long established way of boosting business and Simon Threadgold says, as long as you are careful who you choose as your friends, it still pays off.
New Channel sets sites on laptop market.
Insurer New Channel, a subsidiary of venture capitalist the Summit Group, has launched a computer an...
Survey Overview.
The results of this salary survey suggest insurers and intermediaries have more in common than they think. Mark Cliff considers why this might be.
NU takes on CGU specialist property cover.
Norwich Union has dropped its specialist property owners' product in favour of CGU's and moved the C...