Commercial
Phoenix assesses the damage restoration.
A new consultancy has been set up that aims to save insurers and insureds money by offering independ...
Appointment at Chaucer Insurance.
Chaucer Insurance, the personal lines division of Chaucer Syndicates, has appointed Andrew Chesters ...
Skandia to end its paperchase.
Insurer UK Skandia has selected software provider ActionPoint to help transfer information from hard...
Misleading use of name.
In the article The Underwriter signs GE deal (Post Magazine, 5 October, p1), there is a reference to...
Chubb marine weighs anchor at Lloyd's.
Chubb Europe has relocated its UK marine department to the Lloyd's building. The team, which will...
A&O advise on sale.
City firm Allen & Overy is advising US insurer The Hartford Financial Services Group on the sale of ...
T-tant travel deal.
The online virtual marketplace for general insurers Moneyextra-insurance has signed its first busine...
Venturing abroad.
Bristol-based sports broker Sports Cover Direct has put its two specialist sport and travel policies...
Insurers in joint venture with Misys for new portal
An internet portal for the UK's general insurance intermediaries is to be developed in a new joint ve...
BIBA endorses new online service 24 7
The British Insurance Brokers Association and many of the UK's major insurers have endorsed a new onl...
Lloyd's in virtual venture.
Lloyd's is to significantly expand its website as part of plans to create a virtual marketplace. ...
Ex RSA trio in new launch.
Three former Royal & Sun Alliance managers have set up a new online property claims handling service...
What the Papers Say.
SUNDAY EXPRESS In a Waterloo bookshop, there is a towering stack of Michael Moss's history of Sta...
Net increase.
In the next 12 months, 80% of general insurers will be writing online business, according to Steve V...
Alliance AIMs to acquire Bernard Knope.
Commercial lines broker Alliance Insurance Management is to acquire Suffolk-based insurance agent Be...
Banking on small business.
The corporate mid-market sector is on most insurers shopping lists as a market sector ripe for growt...
Intech takes flight.
Intech Solutions has chosen Hummingbird software company as its preferred supplier of components for...
Marsh boosts agents in SME business push.
Broker Marsh is to make a concerted push into the small and medium business, commercial insurance ma...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny heard recently that Paul Greenwood of Zurich Commercial, who took a party of brokers to the Mu...
A hit with customers.
The mindset of insurers has to change, said Andrew Duncan of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. "Insurers must...
TiG InFront after takeover.
IT provider The Innovation Group (TiG) is set to acquire systems provider Geniq Systems, and a 26% s...
Take it e@sy.
From e-commerce to e-profit, a Post Magazine conference run in conjunction with Compaq, was the insurance industry's e-commerce event of the year. Over 150 top people from insurers, brokers, loss adjusters and IT providers packed into the conference to…
St Paul moves to purchase Lutine.
The St Paul at Lloyd's, one of the largest insurers in the market with 5% of total capacity, is to p...
Funds row continues.
The Consumer Association is to press on with its court application to force Axa to pay the legal cos...