Commercial
The wheel thing.
Fleet motor is set to move into profit for the first time in years, reports Rachel Gordon, with risk management approaches and advances in technology by insurers and loss adjusters a major factor.
Fifthmoon: the dawning of the third age?
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Ground control.
New laws force polluters to clean-up contaminated land - and that includes gradual pollution from previous owners. Standard liability policies are not enough. Insurers must redevelop a variety of solutions to the exposures faced. Simon Threadgold digs…
Virtual value.
Selling insurance over the internet has its critics and several net intermediaries have bitten the dust lately. However many predict that e-value will soon become apparent as net trading rises sharply. David Fanning is virtually convinced.
RSA offers Foresight.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to offer a free business continuity management tool to its brokers. Called F...
Underwriter in BIBA access deal.
The Underwriter is to distribute its products to brokers outside its 100-strong network, after strik...
Aon signs up to new quality mark.
Broker Aon has launched the first of its pilot schemes encouraging contractors on its home assistanc...
Snowball rolls onto board
Richard Harvey, deputy group chief executive and group chief executive designate at insurance giant G...
Aon set to make e-affinity move
Broker Aon and the electronic trading company (etc) are to develop a full cycle, online personal line...
CGNU bancassurance failure
CGNU looks set to shelve its plans for an alliance with France's Societe Generale and is to review wh...
JLT merger results in new team
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has appointed a new senior management team for its new employee benefit...
TPG makes a play for broking market.
Travel insurance intermediary Travel Protection Group is set to make a major play for the insurance ...
Tailored to suit.
Allianz Cornhill has launched Property Owners Select, which it claims will enable brokers to offer c...
The price is right.
English Matthews Brockman, the consulting actuary, has launched a pricing software package for the w...
Miller heads Marsh.
Heidi Miller has been appointed to the role of vice chairman of broking giant Marsh. She takes over ...
Appointment at Winchester White.
Winchester White, the specialist financial services management consultancy, has made three board-lev...
Phone a friend?
The WAP phone phenomenon was one of the biggest non-events of the e-commerce year, and many insurers are dubious as to its value as a suitable channel for selling products in the long-term. Dom Pancucci explains why WAP is, for the moment anyway, the…
JLT in Yahoo! deal.
JLT Corporate Risks and Services has formed an alliance with global communications, commerce and med...
CGI signs Sun deal.
Independent IT services company CGI Europe has signed a seven-year deal worth £53m with Sun Life Fin...
Appointment at SMG.
The Bradford branch of Smithson Mason Group Financial Services has appointed four new account manage...
Misys extends Screentrade's specialist offerings.
Software provider Misys Interactive Trading has extended its online broker product Screentrade to in...
It's call-back time.
People still have reservations about making purchases over the internet and while many sites now offer secure payment methods, it is the provision of a call-back facility that is preventing cautious customers from slipping through the net, says Veronica…
CBC beats rivals to insure MPs.
London broker CBC (UK) has beaten off competition from rivals Aon and SBJ to broker a new policy for...
L&G plans 25% growth in first year of Barclays deal
Barclays has confirmed it has signed a deal with insurer Legal & General to sell its pensions and sa...