Commercial
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny feels for Axa bigwig Andy Homer. The jet-setting Mr Homer pulled out all the stops in his hect...
Great Dane.
Recent start-up Danish Re (Re, October 1999, p14) wrote its first risk through its Lloyd's syndicate...
Breaking with tradition.
Dirk Lohmann tells Adrian Leonard why Zurich Re will not be a conventional reinsurer in a few years' time.
Time for action.
It is no good putting it off any longer. Any (re)insurers serious about the Internet and e-commerce ...
Axa Global Risks and Axa Re face merger.
Axa Re and Axa Global Risks have announced plans for a structural review that could see the two unit...
Clued up on e-commerce.
Fear is the main factor holding back the inevitable move to e-commerce in (re)insurance. Janina Clark reports.
Fewer trades and static prices.
This year's auction season suggests that Lloyd's is facing something of a watershed, with the corpor...
Slow to change in San Diego.
Janina Clark found few signs of improvement in the US reinsurance market at the NAII's annual meeting.
New CEO for Axa Ireland.
Axa's reorganisation of its Irish business has continued with the appointment of a new chief executi...
Plastic policy.
NIG Skandia has launched a Plastics Combined policy to add to its growing portfolio of commercial pr...
Insurers set for IT spree.
Insurance companies will spend at least five times more on e-commerce in 2000 than in 1998, with ret...
Mortgage software to save time and money.
Brokers and advisers working in the mortgage sector are being promised savings of hundreds of pounds...
Power shift strengthens insurers.
Brokers will continue to exist and thrive because insurance is still a purchase that needs to be act...
Lloyd's wins US court victory over Names cash.
Lloyd's has welcomed a US court judgment that moves it one step closer to retrieving monies owed by ...
Chinese insurance wall close to falling.
The trade deal concluded last week between China and America has failed to provide a new window of o...
Newcomer to commercial lines.
Paul Saffer, a former director of Rebus and NetSoft, has founded a new company designed to facilitat...
MiniBusPlus to expand into e-commerce.
Minibus and fleet insurance specialist MiniBusPlus has restructured its systems team to complement t...
Web warning.
Household insurers must avoid e-commerce complacency, according to consultants Bacon & Woodrow. Seni...
Re-entering the space debate.
I am concerned at several statements attributed to SBW in your story 'Lloyd's facing black hole in s...
Mapping and web.
Giant Italian insurer Assitalia aims to put its brokers on the map with the launch of its website de...
Breaking the lore.
The shape of the legal expenses insurance market is changing and in ways that some of the sector's major players believe are not for the better. Marcus Alcock investigates.
Learning from the past is the key to the future.
The only certainty in the future is change - massive, relentless, uncompromising change. Tim Ablett points a finger at the insurance industry and says the best way that it can help itself is by learning from past mistakes.
BRIT's share buy.
BRIT Insurance Holdings has bought from broker Benfield Greig the remaining 70.01% share of BRIT Ins...
Learn today, win tomorrow.
The UK general insurance market has never been in such turmoil. Against a background of continuing...