Commercial
Bittersweet business.
Covering small businesses may mean slim margins. John Burke finds how insurers make ends meet.
Ireland tops pools list but UK is in the shallow end.
The profitability of multinational pooling arrangements varies significantly according to the countr...
Joint plan to keep City in lead.
The two sides of the London insurance market - Lloyd's and the corporates - are to work together to ...
Appointment at Towergate Underwriting.
Nick Croker has been made active chairman of Towergate Underwriting Group. Before his appointment he...
Heads you win.
Marcella Cronin gives some dos and don't on how to get yourself headhunted.
Hail to Joe Public.
For years insurers have been saying the customer is king, but Paul Kerley argues that future profitability depends more than ever on this being true.
Room for solutions.
Room Underwriting Systems, business solutions provider for the Lloyd's Market, has struck a deal wit...
A steady look at vibrations.
Research and technical information body the Loss Prevention Council has issued a new report on whole...
Appointments at Royal & Sun Alliance.
Steve Wood, currently head of underwriting and risk management at RSA, is to succeed Tim Ablett as d...
Blunderbuss' aim is out.
Brokers who use a 'blunderbuss' approach to new business are likely to fail, warns a report sponsore...
Holocaust claims get some relief.
The five European insurers backing the international commission investigating Holocaust-era claims a...
A model of sensitivity.
Adrian Leonard explains a new kind of modelling which provides an entirely different view of risk.
Sharp decline in Overseas' first quarter income.
Net income has dropped sharply for Bermudian reinsurer Overseas Partners in the first quarter of 199...
Layers of meaning.
John Butler discusses the problems surrounding the application of aggregate extension clauses.
CLM converts to trading entity.
Quoted Lloyd's spread fund CLM is to convert from an investment company to a trading entity as its i...
A credit to the profession.
John Sanders finds credit (re)insurers bullish about the prospects for their market.
New PMI player.
PolicyMaster is to launch into the private medical insurance market with the acquisition of Mediquot...
Appointment at NIG Skandia.
NIG Skandia has promoted Bob Nuttall to assistant manager in the commercial division. Mr Nuttall has...
Hill House Hammond.
Hill House Hammond gave Chris Brown from Bedfordshire a double birthday present last week. Discoveri...
Crossing the gulf between risk managers.
I read with interest 'Staying on Track (PM supplement, 17 June, p12). I am pleased to see there i...
Construction care.
Loss adjuster Crawford THG has launched a new, fully managed approach to resolving property damage c...
White knight of the west?
Do you want to know about overpricing, secret payments and a shrinking market? PMI insurer Western Provident Association's chief executive Julian Stainton spoke to Alex Broad about all this and more.
Football giveaway.
Post Magazine is to continue the Avon Combination football ticket giveaway next season and it kicks ...
Phone fears limit direct insurers.
Direct insurers in Germany are in danger of losing out to tied agents because of consumer distrust i...