Commercial
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...
Competition winner scoops football tickets.
Alexander Baker of Aon was the winner of the first Avon Insurance football competition of the season...
Smith - online success kills.
Abbott Smith, vice president for Compaq Computer Corporation in the US, warned insurers of the poten...
Clickforcover targets brokers.
A new underwriting agent is looking to expand its broker base for a product that covers small to med...
Allianz acquires Dutch insurer.
AGF, the french subsidiary of German insurer Allianz, has acquired 100% of Dutch insurer Zwolsche Al...
Legal & General ties up professional deal
Legal and General has won the contract to design and supply stakeholder pensions for the 300 000 memb...
Final battles.
The war of words resulting from the seizure of Kuwaiti aircraft by Iraq has come before the English courts 14 times in the past five years. Jonathan Sacher looks at the battles that have made up the war.
Total commitment.
Speed and service are the drivers behind a new on-line system for selling marine total loss reinsurance. Eric Alexander takes a look beneath the surface of TLO-Online.