Commercial
More move online.
Eleven of the 19 leading insurers are now delivering online quotations to IFA's via AssureWeb, accor...
Exclusive - Legal insurer bought by rival.
Specialist provider CPO Legal Expenses has been bought by business rival Victory Legal Protection. ...
Online insurer teams with BT.
Online insurer Insurance Wide.com has linked up with British Telecom. InsuranceWide will provide ...
Budget Special - Cash incentive to enter world of e-commerce.
Brokers and independent financial advisers look set to benefit from measures to encourage them to in...
Eastgate launches taxman protection - Tax protection.
Eastgate Assistance has taken advantage of the burgeoning tax self-assessment regime by launching a ...
Life added online.
Direct insurer Eagle Star has added life insurance to its online service, www.eaglestar.co.uk. It in...
Old waters, new routes.
Andrew Coutts explains why marine insurers need to be inventive to survive in the 21st century's rapidly-changing insurance climate.
Budget mish-mash
Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget speech contained an interesting mish-mash of measures. Insurers an...
Marsh creates new risk division
Broker Marsh's US owner Marsh & McLennan is to set up a risk management unit for corporate clients th...
Hercules goes online
A new household insurance service - underwritten by Lombard - which enables homeowners to get instan...
Date for division.
Credit Suisse Group is to set up a new financial services management division from 1 April, combinin...
Use rehab to force a radical change.
The trend of rising claims awards and increasing small claims shows no sign of changing in the near future and rehabilitation has been proved to reduce compensation. But is rehab the answer, asks David Hughes.
Best deal claim.
Securityfirst has launched a new mortgage payment protection insurance package that it considers to ...
Appointment at NIG Skandia.
Stephen Hodson has joined the marketing department of NIG Skandia as senior marketing executive. Pre...
Glass cracks fleet estimates.
Motor repair specialist Glass Information Services has launched an electronic estimating system for ...
Exclusive - Digital TV turns off IT chief.
Direct Line has rejected an immediate entry into digital television and predicted the demise of mult...
Norwich Union under fire from 'green' groups.
Norwich Union has been singled out by two leading environmental pressure groups for its investment r...
Walton and Parkinson and Chubb Custom land International Shakespeare
To quote, or not to quote - brokers Walton and Parkinson and Chubb Custom have landed the account of...
Safix courts insurers.
Software firm Safix has launched business survival software for small and medium-sized enterprises w...
Lloyd's begins its defence
Lloyd's defence counsel, Charles Aldous QC, started his defence today in the High Court against the ...
Port Marine Safety Code unveiled by Keith Hill, Shipping Minister.
The government hoped to make all ports safe calls this week with the launch of a new Port Marine Saf...
A case of biting the hand that feeds?
As a chartered loss adjuster working for a cleaning and restoration contractor, and having worked on...
Deutsche Bank bonanza.
The acquisition of Deutsche Bank's asset management arm DWS by German insurance giant Allianz will m...
GISC launch still on track.
The General Insurance Standards Council is set to launch in July, as exclusively revealed in Post Ma...