Commercial
IFA's virtual dream nears realisation.
Independent financial adviser Towry Law's dream of creating a virtual operations firm through outsou...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny is still recovering from the excesses of last week when Post Magazine picked up two gongs at t...
Virtual business will kill off brokers.
A boom in e-commerce will send brokers to the wall - that was the grim warning at last week's Insura...
Talking loyalty.
The feature 'Moving Targets' (PM 9 September, p23) explained why insurers often miss the mark when i...
The £1.5m question.
Global broker Willis is still digging into the £1.5m hole in its Leeds Office accounts to find the r...
Compaq strikes deal with KPMG.
Computing giant Compaq and leading IT and business consultants KPMG have teamed up to deliver a comp...
On the policy trail.
Mary Francis calls on insurers and brokers to unite behind the new employer's liability code which comes into force next month.
IFAs can cash in through new disabled law.
Tough legislation concerning the treatment of disabled people could provide a new opportunity for in...
Post Magazine scores double win.
Post Magazine scored a remarkable double by winning General Insurance Magazine of the Year and Best ...
Blackburn dies.
Brian Blackburn, a director with Manchester brokers Alec Finch & Company, has died aged 57. The insu...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill Engineering.
Allianz Cornhill Engineering has installed a new management team. It comprises Jason Griffiths as re...
Appointment at AIG Europe.
AIG Europe has appointed David Palmer as London-based crisis management corporate manager for the UK...
Go directly to debit.
Small and medium-sized brokers and intermediaries are being encouraged to get their house in order t...
Winter of discontent warning.
A salvage company chief has warned that winter could bite hard for several businesses in the sector....
Norwich Union invest in future
Norwich Union has bolstered its attempt to become a top ten money manager in the UK with two new appo...
Both crash trains insured by St Paul.
The rush-hour train crash near Paddington Station on Tuesday morning has again raised serious questi...
US groups file Y2K suits against insurers
Three US companies - Xerox, GTE and Unisys - have filed complaints against insurers which seek remedi...
Halifax to go online for insurance
Halifax will begin selling insurance products over the Internet from April next year under its plans ...
Cologne Re pays dividends out of reserves.
Despite plunging into the red with a DM 61.1m ($32.7m) loss after tax in the 1998 calendar year, the...
An unlikely harvest.
How can hi-tech Japan be home to a massive excess of loss programme for agriculture? Jeremy Golden investigates.
Shift to excess of loss will halve reinsurance.
The global reinsurance market could be halved by the trend for cedants to move away from quota share...
A health-giving tonic for Asia.
Jeremy Golden asks whether health insurance will give Asia-Pacific's insurance markets the boost they need.
Finns' hit list.
Finnish mutual insurer Suomi has drawn up a shortlist of potential merger partners, with Pohjola, Sa...
BRIT's buy-up plan.
BRIT Insurance Holdings intends to acquire the 70.01% of catastrophe specialist BRIT Insurance (form...