Commercial
Winning from the subs bench.
The word subrogation is added to the vocabulary of insurance students in their early days and stays with them throughout their career. Ken Cannar outlines the history of the term.
Asset management operation ready to roll.
Allianz is to launch a new asset management operation at the end of the month. The move was revea...
Ellis & Buckle launches service.
Ellis & Buckle has launched a service aimed exclusively at building contractor's claims, complete wi...
Brokers gain ground in pensions market as banks stall.
European brokers and agents have begun to reclaim lost ground in the valuable life and pensions mark...
Exclusive - NU spells out year 2000 cover.
Norwich Union has placed the estimated £30bn millennium bug problem at the top of the agenda by writ...
Zurich International's 'Casino Royale' evening.
Over 100 people attended Zurich International's recent 'Casino Royale' evening at London's prestigio...
Warren Hill snaps up East Kilbride broker.
East Kilbride insurance broker C&N Black has been acquired by Warren Hill Insurance Brokers. Insu...
Lloyd's opts for Europ.
Europ Assistance has been chosen as the provider for Lloyd's TSB retail travel insurance business, a...
Use IT to fight fraud'.
PHH Insurer Services is urging the insurance industry to embrace technology in the multi-million pou...
Noelle flies in to cement AGF deal.
Allianz's move to buy French insurer AGF saw Dr Schulte-Noelle fly to meet with French officials to ...
Kestrel is clipped.
Highway Motor policies has announced it is to re-rate its broker market offshot Kestrel Underwriting...
Axa goes for three year deals.
Axa Provincial is set to announce the introduction of three-year contracts across a wide range of co...
Appointment at Anglo Caledonian.
Catriona Cormie has been made the first director of operations for Anglo Caledonian, the affinity gr...
Look and do touch.
Lloyd's TSB General Insurance has selected IT systems specialists ICL to trial kiosk services promot...
Manulife creates German subsidiary.
Manulife Financial, Canada's largest mutual life insurer, has opened an independent reinsurance subs...
Networks merger under discussion.
Electronic commerce looks set to take off in the global insurance industry if talks aimed at closer ...
Sedgwick to advise on health risks.
A new risk management consulting service for employee disability has been launched by Sedgwick Noble...
Zurich launches CD-ROM for motorists.
In an attempt to reduce road accidents, Zurich, in association with training consultants Riva 4Di an...
Appointment at Lombard General.
Grant Whiskin has taken up the position of affinity/schemes operations manager based in Tonbridge. H...
Why company wants staff with attitude.
Workers with positive attitude are more valuable then those with IT skills.
Novadigm into Europe.
Novadigm UK has signed a Europe-wide corporate reseller agreement with Computacenter, one of the UK'...
Engineering cover.
NIG Skandia will be adding engineering cover to its portfolio from 1 July. NIG Skandia promises to o...
Business as usual for Indonesia adjusters.
It's business as usual for insurance loss adjusters in strife-torn Indonesia as the country catches ...
Insurers get clear Windows.
Software giant Microsoft has announced its Windows Distributed Internet Applications architecture (W...