Commercial
Buying French? Non.
Independent Insurance has said it is no closer to acquiring a foreign general insurer than at any po...
Pressure on Royal London.
Royal London, the mutual insurer which sells policies door-to-door, could come under pressure to see...
Crystal clear NIG.
NIG Skandia has been given a glittering prize for its Trophy motorcycle policy. The insurer was awar...
NU integration kicks off.
Norwich Union has embarked in earnest on its integration of London & Edinburgh, the insurer it acqui...
Animal Insurance Management Services spots gap in pet market.
Animal Insurance Management Services has spotted a gap in the pet market and is leading the way with...
There's nowt as queer as folk.
There is no such thing as a 'typical consumer' any more, a fact which has forced marketing departmen...
Avon Combination competition winner.
Leicester City fan Steve Roche has scored with the last kick of this season's Post Magazine /Avon In...
Air rescue for a Brit too far.
Insurers could have their repatriation costs slashed if a new medical airline service takes off. ...
Lost male costs £385 a week.
Having a man about the house can save a family a staggering £385 a week according to telephone based...
£606m profit for Lloyd's.
Lloyd's has announced a preliminary profit of £606m for the 1996 underwriting year. The figure co...
Waiting for the gun.
Brokers are on their blocks and insurers in training for the start of the 1999 Insurance Athletic As...
Can't PAY won't PAY.
A company can face disaster if a client refuses or is unable to settle a major bill. Simon Threadgold says that this is where credit insurance can make the difference between going under and surviving.
Fired up on Cannon Street.
North West corporate broker Alec Finch & Company has opened an office in London. The premises in ...
Axa deal offers real-time quotes.
Axa Sun Life has teamed up with Netscape to offer the UK's first real-time Internet quotation servic...
£1.26 acquisition.
Danish banking company Unidanmark is set to buy insurer Tryg-Baltica Forsikring for $1.26bn. The mov...
Be heard or you may be sorry.
The select committee considering the Financial Services & Markets Bill, which held its first public ...
Allianz goes global.
Allianz is set to unveil its new logo from the end of the month following its acquisition of AGF. Al...
Demand for wedding insurance.
Californian caterers and hoteliers are increasingly demanding that couples set to marry carry weddin...
£5bn in kitty to buy.
The chairman of Dutch finance group ING has said it is planning to buy a US life insurance company b...
Miami nice Fortis deal.
Dutch/Belgian group Fortis has announced it has agreed to pay £2.6bn cash for Miami-based credit ins...
ABI's travel guide.
To ensure that Brits abroad have great holidays and not grating horrordays, the Association of Briti...
NU responds to IFAs with new term cover.
Norwich Union has developed a new term insurance product with enhanced levels of critical illness co...
The ART of the matter.
Brendan Lawlor argues that despite redundancies caused by consolidation, the take up of alternative risk transfer could create new opportunities for brokers and underwriters prepared to retrain.
NIG product pack.
NIG Skandia has introduced an information pack detailing the range of personal and commercial produc...