Commercial
Brokers slammed.
The British Insurance Brokers Association has defended its members over accusations by technology co...
Appointment at Mardon Insurance.
David Cole has joined Mardon Insurance as business development director. He has many years experienc...
Policy Master is bullish over Sirius.
Insurance technology firm Policy Master expects to announce top end figures for the year ended 31 De...
Linaker sets up timber division
Insurance broker Linaker has set up a new division to cater specifically for the insurance needs of t...
Goshawk enters PI market
Integrated Lloyd's insurance vehicle Goshawk has entered the professional indemnity market. It has...
Eversheds' restructuring means new practice group.
National law firm Eversheds is to establish a national volume group to focus on the firm's low-margi...
MCS amalgamates.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson has become software provider MCS's biggest user after amalgamating its whole ...
Broker limbo.
Hundreds of brokers could be left in a regulatory void following the Office of Fair Trading's decisi...
Names to shun Lloyd's latest offer.
The United Names Organisation - the body behind the litigating Names in the Jaffray trial - has slam...
Planning for the future.
The life assurance sector has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. IFAs, alternative investments and falling mortality figures have all played a part, with stakeholder set to affect future sales. Keith Sankey looks into his crystal ball.
Euclidian merges two subsidiaries.
Lloyd's insurer Euclidian Group is unifying its broking operations and merging two of its subsidiary...
dotcover casts net.
Online intermediary, dotcover.com, launched last week offering wedding, pet, travel and motor cover....
Takeover targets.
Consolidation amongst quoted Lloyd's vehicles is set to continue apace, despite Chubb's failed bid f...
In which we e-serve for back office.
Internet software specialist insurE-com has launched a new service, insur-E.serve, to facilitate th...
McManus move.
Brendan McManus has joined the Royal & Sun Alliance commercial executive team as marketing and distr...
CGI forms Allianz.
IT software and services company CGI Europe has rolled out its Global Insurance Open Solution to ove...
RSA's sixth sense.
Royal & Sun Alliance has launched its sixth product for Enterprise, its SME business broker club. En...
Slipping' on banana skins.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Raising the standard?
Last year saw the fall of many underperforming syndicates. Marcus Alcock investigates whether or not this is a trend that is likely to continue this year.
The e-volution of life as we know it.
Peter Le Beau takes stock of today's e-business world and looks at how (re)insurers are responding to the digital opportunities.
Lloyd's Canada has been set up.
Lloyd's has set up a Canadian subsidiary, Lloyd's Canada, which has contracted out services to Telus...
Playing with fire.
The Asian economic crisis has led to a severe drop in business confidence in the region, along with a growing demand for political risk insurance, says Daniel Wagner.
A chance for the little guy.
So who will win the race to develop the internet-based reinsurance trading system of choice? For ...
Internet trading battle begins.
An internet-based reinsurance trading system set up by Gothaer Re of Germany has gone live in compet...