Commercial
JLT's profits £63m.
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thomson said it expects its e-commerce strategy to play a major part in its dev...
Record payout.
Finsure Premium Finance, a subsidiary of NIG, has paid out a record £1.4m to brokers participating i...
Heavy hype, but only beats some.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
What the Papers Say.
THE TIMES A group of drunken City traders from Intercapital, accused of causing £35,000 of damage...
Technology is key to prosperity.
Intermediaries are facing a revolution and must be ready for huge change if they are to survive and ...
Enterprising deal.
Rent-a-car company Enterprise has signed a deal to supply Black Horse Vehicle Management with replac...
Flat firms targeted.
Bristol broker Linaker Group has teamed up with Allianz to underwrite Flatsure. The product is aimed...
IIB in deal with software house.
Members of the Institute of Insurance Brokers will soon be able to access technical reports on insur...
Britannic aims to double sales on financial side.
Britannic Assurance is launching new interactive, point-of-sale technology that is planned to double...
Appointment at Clerical Medical Investment Group.
Louis Sherwood has been made chairman of Clerical Medical Investment Group. He will take over from r...
Totally digital.
Total solutions provider Intech Solutions has launched its complete e-business insurance system - th...
Chubb rebrands Euro-portfolio.
Chubb Europe has rebranded its European portfolio of executive protection and professional liability...
Allfinanz jackpot.
Allfinanz, the Internet software house, last week signed a multi-million dollar deal to licence its ...
Appointment at Groupama Insurances.
Jacci Taylor, Gareth Holt, Jon Morrell and Stephen Albutt have been appointed as directors of Groupa...
SLPH sees hard road ahead
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, owned by French giant Axa, said the outlook for the current year was ...
Aon hit by special charges.
Aon was hit by special charges of $150m in 1999, the global broker has revealed. Just over half o...
EW Blanch net income leaps 25%.
Reinsurance broker EW Blanch saw its net income jump by a quarter last year to $39.7m from $31.8m in...
Muted celebrations.
Janina Clark and Cameron Andrews find Singapore's reinsurers starting their new year with both new challenges and old problems.
Axa Re US forms two subsidiaries.
Axa Re US has set up two subsidiaries, Axa Re Property & Casualty Insurance and Axa Re America Insur...
Fasten your seatbelts.
As the numbers of passengers, flights and accidents increase, Eric Alexander considers the higher risks that share the ride with more premiums.
ERC goes online.
ERC Frankona, the European operation of Employers Re, is offering reinsurance online through its new...
Tesco to roll out cut-price policies
Supermarket and petrol retailer Tesco is to begin offering car insurance from 8 March after a success...
Corporate killing warning
A leading underwriter has warned that insurers will not pay fines for so-called corporate killing con...
JLT's profits up
Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), the UK-based broker, has reported steady growth for 1999 with a 9% rise...