Commercial
Online storm site.
Insurers and reinsurers will be able to track live probability estimates for hurricane risk as storm...
Beard's clean break.
Steven Beard, financial controller at Brockbank Syndicate Management, is to follow in the footsteps ...
Compris Contractor relaunched.
Watford-based broker Dickson Insurance has teamed up with Lloyd's underwriter DP Mann to relaunch it...
ABI must not be mute.
The insurance industry - and the independent financial adviser sector in particular - was given a pa...
Internet will be shop front of tomorrow for insurers.
I read with interest the article 'Insurers slammed for poor Internet attitude' (PM 11 May, p15) whic...
Ticket ads value.
Hill House Hammond is using car park tickets as an advertising device. The 'park and read' campaign ...
On the right track.
In a new deal with WebDetect, Aon Risk Services will have exclusive distribution rights across the U...
Teams' challenge.
Climbing, walking, canoeing and cycling their way to a grand total of over £100,000, 25 teams helped...
Brit down but looking up
Lloyd's insurer and reinsurer Brit Insurance Holdings, created from the merger of Brit Insurance and ...
Lloyd's to open door to brokers from January
Lloyd's has confirmed that it is to allow brokers from within the UK and overseas to access the marke...
Exchange grows.
Internet intermediary portal the eXchange Holdings has reported solid growth for the first four mont...
Fast-track to the top.
Alan Fleming, head of insurance and risk management at Railtrack, will take over from Mark Butterworth as chairman of AIRMIC on 7 June following a hastily organised promotion. Anthony Gould investigates.
EU legal hotline.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has teamed up with AIG Europe and Anderson Legal to offer a telephone adv...
MMA-rvellous.
Broker-only insurer, MMA Insurance, previously Norman, has recorded a 25.5% increase in gross premiu...
Widows names its new venture
Scottish Widow's new asset management business - to become effective on 30 June - is to be called Sc...
So far, so good.
Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society has signed up 120 advisers in the three months since it launched...
Let's do online lunch.
Life assurance consumers of the future will mix savings with sandwiches during their lunch breaks ac...
Internet accusation.
Insurers are using the Internet to enhance customer service and to support existing distribution str...
Commentary - Defamation by dotcom.
At the same time that the 'Love bug' was causing chaos in computer systems across the world, courts ...
Amlin ambles to £18.3m
Lloyd's underwriter Amlin saw pre-tax profits rise to £18.3m last year, only marginally up from £18m ...
A question of strategy.
Small and medium-sized businesses face different dilemmas in creating a risk strategy. David Fanning finds out why.
A meeting of minds.
Mark Butterworth, chairman of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers, and John Ball, above right, president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, came face to face to compare their organisations.
Insurers' relief at Dimond ruling.
The insurance industry received a filip last week following the House of Lords ruling in the Dimond ...
Merger will create UK insurance powerhouse.
Personal injury specialists Weightmans and Hill Dickinson are believed to be close to a merger follo...