Commercial
Internet test in an Instant.
Software consultancy firm Reasoning has launched an Internet-based product that tests insurers' prog...
Appointment at HSBC Select.
Nick Weaver has been recruited as a director of HSBC Select, the national telephone broking division...
Can't cope, won't cope.
Work-related stress has hit the headlines again, with an estimated one in three 16-24 year olds stressed at work. Unfortunately many employers seem unable or unwilling to recognise the importance of dealing with stress. Deborah Edwards reports.
Aon buys Velo to kick-start pan-European fleet dream.
Global broker Aon has bought Velo Motor Accident Management in a bid to develop what it claims will ...
St Paul acquires marine business
St Paul has acquired Norwich Union's marine portfolio. The acquisition gives the insurer's Lloyd's ...
Aegon's list.
Dutch Insurer Aegon has reached an agreement with the California Department of Insurance over compli...
Miles South National Lottery Contingency Insurance policies.
Lloyd's insurance broker Miles Smith has shown it has got balls by extending its current National Lo...
Swiss Re buys Underwriters Re
Swiss Re is to move into the broker distribution market in the US with the purchase of California-bas...
RSA resignation sparks off reshuffle
The resignation of Peter Burrows, director UK commercial at Royal & Sun Alliance, has prompted a resh...
SVB moves to insulate itself from Lloyd's
SVB Holdings, which recently acquired CLM has moved its underwriting risks for the last three years t...
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Heather Baucher has joined the insurance department of law firm Hill Dickinson. She will move to the...
RSA boosts its critical illness cover.
Royal Sun Alliance has extended its critical illness cover to keep itself "at the forefront of busin...
An admirable effort.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Vital statistics.
Several new insurance call centres have been introduced to the market recently. Here we compare the facts and figures.
GISC must get its head out of the sand.
The plethora of recriminations about the General Insurance Standards Council's proposals for self-re...
Winner.
Mervyn Gibbs is the second winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. The sen...
Axa out to be Northern Ireland's no 1.
Axa aims to become the number one player in Northern Ireland. In the week that has witnessed momen...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY EXPRESS Everton footballer Slaven Bilic looks like ending his career with a multi-million i...
Insurer game to pay £1m prize to puzzle solver.
A Lloyd's insurer could be set to do what Chris Tarrant has so far failed to do - pay out a million ...
Axa picks lock firm.
Emergency response company Highway Glass and Locks has been appointed sole provider of glass frames ...
Insurers to keep euro assets.
Japan's major life insurers are to hold on to their euro-denominated assets - a decision described b...
DBS scraps national conference to regionalise.
Independent financial adviser chain DBS is increasing its regional meeting programme. It is set t...
Stake for sale.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings has put its 49% stake in PPP Columbia, the joint venture which runs f...
Police ready for riot that never came.
Police at Liverpool Street Station in the City of London were out in force on Tuesday anticipating a...