Commercial
Damaging attitudes to disaster recovery.
You would think that when it comes to a company's priorities, disaster recovery would be high on the...
Bennetts launches new online quote facility.
Motorcycle stunt team The Purple Helmets were on hand as motorcycle specialist Bennetts launched its...
Standard Life fights vote.
Standard Life is to target younger policyholders in its attempt to defeat a vote on demutualisation....
WeatherNet online.
WeatherNet's insurance validation services are now available online, providing access to over half a...
Truckers can lens a hand to keep down claims.
Fleet drivers should carry cameras in their cabs to protect themselves against inflated insurance cl...
The sky's the limit.
Premium rates for motor fleets have experienced a huge turnaround. The market has swung from under-capacity to over-capacity and rates are still rising as Simon Threadgold discovers.
Policy has rights.
Insurance software provider Policy Master has secured the rights to distribute the Polaris ProductWr...
IBM solution.
IBM has teamed up with software provider Versata to develop VisualAge Application Rules. They claim ...
Appointment at Cigna Healthcare.
Kate Wakefield has been made healthcare services sales manager at Cigna Healthcare. She joins from B...
JLT launches US joint venture
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has launched a US-based specialist risk services business in a jo...
A land of stark realities.
Mergers, takeovers, demutualisations, privatisations and collapse. It is all happening in the Australian insurance market. Richard Willsher reports.
Odyssey Re swallows CTR in reorganisation.
Compagnie Transcontinentale de Reassurance (CTR), the Paris-based subsidiary of US group Odyssey Re,...
ERC Frankona goes wireless.
ERC Frankona's customers can now communicate with the reinsurer via mobile phones or hand-held compu...
Cyber-liabilities.
In the second of four articles investigating the insurance needs of e-commerce, Jill Hampton and Charlotte Waters identify the risks that need to be covered.
Gold medal or silver bullet?
It's almost a year to the day since Lord Woolf's civil procedure reforms were introduced. Have they shaken up the legal profession for the better, or have they created a new set of problems? Marcus Alcock finds out.
Qualifications are overdue.
Training and professionalism are the cornerstones of any industry and are often the first things to ...
Promise of cheaper way to buy cover.
US company dotRisk has developed an Internet platform for business insurers which it claims will gre...
Helphire pretence slammed by judge.
A County Court judge has labelled a credit hire arrangement by specialist Helphire a "pretence" in a...
Cash 'n' grab for ex-cons.
City broker Ian McCall International is to tackle financial exclusion with a range of products devel...
Hear this?
Dr Stewart Stoneman argues that proactive intervention by insurers in the management of noise-induced hearing loss risk could significantly reduce claims costs.
Under-reserved & under pressure.
Rafael Villarreal explains a crucial aspect defining the credit risk profile of Italian general insurers and its implications for the insurance industry.
Full Steam ahead.
Open Text Corporation, a provider of e-business applications, has announced that Steamship, an insur...
Closures follow JLT merger.
The merger of Jardine Lloyd Thompson and Burke Ford's retail operations (PM 22 April, p3) looks set ...
DBS hardens up software plans.
DBS Management has forged a strategic alliance with Microsoft, PC Engineering and SoftAd to advance ...