Commercial
New Lombard training.
Lombard has announced it is to provide an exclusive new training and development package for the mem...
The priceless value of people.
Companies may be spending more and more money on technology, but without people to use it, business would grind to a halt. Yet Ronnie Martin finds few firms take steps to insure their own staff.
Zurich's life reshuffle.
Zurich Financial Services has announced it is to reorganise its UK life business. As a result of the...
No win, no fee for builders.
Construction industry sub-contractors can soon afford to build a case against defaulting contractors...
CGU goes green.
CGU will unveil a new eco-enterprise strategy at the first National Green Business convention on Oct...
Insurers must dial N for 'no'.
The matter of the seemingly constant changes to telephone codes in our major urban areas might appea...
Allianze takes shortfall.
Australian insurance company MMI has has announced that its five-for-six share shortfall will be tak...
All features great and small.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
C&M handling system.
Clerical and Medical's networks of customers and independent financial advisers are being nursed thr...
NU in top gear as Ford deal gets motoring.
Norwich Union and Ford launched their new insurance partnership this week and said they were in it f...
Alliance announced between IFAA and IFP.
The first steps towards the creation of a professional body for independent financial advisers were ...
Insurers play their cards right.
A survey of European insurance CEOs revealed a remarkable degree of unanimity, reports Costas Miranthis.
Michelle wins football prize.
Watford fan Michelle Dean, head of the claims section at Bristol-based Chartwell Underwriting, has w...
Investors cry freedom.
Keith Sankey explains why South Africa has become a land of opportunity for British policyholders.
Brave new world.
In the third of our Across the Millennium articles, Nick Shaw presents a futuristic look at the global insurance market in 2010, when we will be buying cover through robots.
AIRMIC award glory.
AIRMIC members were represented in six out of eight categories in the European Risk Management Award...
Engaged in a phone war.
Insurers are taking-on telephone watchdog OFTEL after it announced it aimed to radically change free...
A jobhunter's dream come true.
Jobhunters seeking work in financial services now have access to a plethora of vacancies at their fi...
Towergate Underwriting Group acquires Strovers Limited.
Towergate Underwriting Group has named Strovers Limited as the latest in a long line of acquisitions...
Bloody-minded' CGU kick up stink over logo.
Industry giant CGU has been slammed as "bloody minded" for pressurising a tiny south coast broker to...
Sales on-line.
Efficient insurance sales on the internet have yet to take off in a big way. Richard Griffiths explores the reasons why.
Third buy for broker.
Broker Oughtred & Harrison has announced its third acquisition in three months giving the company a ...
First e-commerce insurer just around the corner.
The "click here economy" is just around the corner, Philip Crawford, senior vice president of the Or...
A call for Service.
The advent of call centre technology has dramatically changed the way insurers carry out their business. Jonathan Swift looks at the changes ringing through the industry.