Commercial
Gordon Brown calls for a completion of single European financial
Brown: fast-track to single market Chancellor Gordon Brown's call this week for a fast-track complet...
Internet leads cargo turnaround.
E-commerce initiatives have alleviated the fall in the number of cargo premiums within the London ma...
Clarke in hotseat at Jacksons'.
Richard Clarke has replaced Bill Goyder as senior partner of north east insurance litigation law fir...
Presentation outweighs content.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
'Chaos' reigns claims insurer.
The market is in chaos according to brokers, said Neil Williams, assistant general manager of Indep...
Events.
7 SEPTEMBER The Chartered Insurance Institute's Training and Development Forum London, Chartere...
NIG's business cover.
Broker-only insurer NIG has launched business cover for firms with a turnover of up to £1m. No clai...
Appointments at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership.
A trio of new appointments have been made by Scottish Widows Investment Partnership. Mark Philips ha...
UK performance boosts CGNU sales
CGNU recorded an 18% increase in total worldwide new business sales, totalling £6.1bn in the first ha...
Merger talks.
Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank are looking at a merger plan which includes the option of insurer Alli...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is not a great fan of dressing down and was not surprised to hear that men are facing new peri...
European Football Championships costly for insurers.
Not everybody can be a winner and France's recent victory in the European Football Championships has...
NU hails global cab.
A Norwich Union-insured Metrocab has set off on a journey around the world to raise money for sight-...
What the Papers Say.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A couple whose business collapsed and who face losing their home launched a £...
London player makes a bid for the regions.
Ambitious London market insurer The Underwriter is set to treble its agency base with the opening of...
Dilemma facing broker market.
It is a sad truth that Nick O'Farrell is right ('Insurers are ruining broker relations', PM 22 June,...
Appointment at MMA Insurance.
MMA Insurance has taken on Scott Nelson as a non-executive director. Mr Nelson has many years' ex...
Royal London to axe a further 300 jobs.
A further 300 jobs are to be lost following Royal London's acquisition of United Assurance in April...
Bosses letting down teenage staff.
According to a survey by Norwich Union, 80% of small businesses are failing to carry out correct hea...
Plane'n'easy online quotes.
High street brokers could move into the general aviation market following the launch this week of an...
Win athletics tickets.
The excitement is building for a great summer of athletics and sports fans have an array of top comp...
Liability launch.
Fusion, the web-based subsidiary of SVB Holdings, has launched an employment practices liability ins...
That is, an iE deal.
Generali International, a subsidiary of the Generali Group, has announced a new contract with e-fina...
SLPH delisted as Axa pays £2.3bn for subsidiary
French insurance group Axa's buyout of the minority shareholding in its UK subsidiary Sun Life & Prov...