Commercial
2020 vision.
The winners in any business are those able to predict the future most accurately. Janina Clark hears top executives at the Reinsurance Lunch Forum envisaging life in 2020.
Internet code for Bermuda.
Bermuda is to introduce a code of conduct for internet businesses next month. The code will apply...
Voice of dissent.
Lord Justice Waller disagreed with the majority view in a recent credit insurance case before the Court of Appeal. John Butler looks at both the views of the dissenting judge and the majority verdict.
Swiss Re sets up UK-based e-business
A new e-commerce business is being set up in the UK by Swiss Re which will be headed up by chief exec...
Print and be damned.
Veronica Cowan looks at the difficulties that arise when providing some parts of the media with professional indemnity insurance.
Exclusive - Promark offers 'fix' for online trading problems.
Promark Software has launched a new Internet quotation solution for online trading which supports it...
Exclusive - New ARM muscles in on ratings.
A former boss of rating agency Fitch IBCA has set up a new ratings market for small-to medium-sized ...
eMerge revealed.
IT solutions company Sapiens has launched eMerge, which the company said allows insurers to leverage...
Online storm site.
Insurers and reinsurers will be able to track live probability estimates for hurricane risk as storm...
Beard's clean break.
Steven Beard, financial controller at Brockbank Syndicate Management, is to follow in the footsteps ...
Compris Contractor relaunched.
Watford-based broker Dickson Insurance has teamed up with Lloyd's underwriter DP Mann to relaunch it...
ABI must not be mute.
The insurance industry - and the independent financial adviser sector in particular - was given a pa...
Internet will be shop front of tomorrow for insurers.
I read with interest the article 'Insurers slammed for poor Internet attitude' (PM 11 May, p15) whic...
Ticket ads value.
Hill House Hammond is using car park tickets as an advertising device. The 'park and read' campaign ...
On the right track.
In a new deal with WebDetect, Aon Risk Services will have exclusive distribution rights across the U...
Teams' challenge.
Climbing, walking, canoeing and cycling their way to a grand total of over £100,000, 25 teams helped...
Brit down but looking up
Lloyd's insurer and reinsurer Brit Insurance Holdings, created from the merger of Brit Insurance and ...
Lloyd's to open door to brokers from January
Lloyd's has confirmed that it is to allow brokers from within the UK and overseas to access the marke...
Exchange grows.
Internet intermediary portal the eXchange Holdings has reported solid growth for the first four mont...
Fast-track to the top.
Alan Fleming, head of insurance and risk management at Railtrack, will take over from Mark Butterworth as chairman of AIRMIC on 7 June following a hastily organised promotion. Anthony Gould investigates.
EU legal hotline.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has teamed up with AIG Europe and Anderson Legal to offer a telephone adv...
MMA-rvellous.
Broker-only insurer, MMA Insurance, previously Norman, has recorded a 25.5% increase in gross premiu...
Widows names its new venture
Scottish Widow's new asset management business - to become effective on 30 June - is to be called Sc...
So far, so good.
Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society has signed up 120 advisers in the three months since it launched...