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Appointment at The Bollington Group.
Tanya Cragg has been appointed team leader of Macclesfield-based Bollington Group retail insurance d...
Broker Network forms Alliance.
The intermediary support company Broker Network has formed a joint partnership with The Broker Allia...
Heath Lambert moves to new premises.
Heath Lambert has moved its Manchester office to new premises on New Bailey Street. Branch managing ...
L&G: IFA extension.
Legal & General has extended www.LandG.com/ifacentre, its online independent financial adviser websi...
Commercial insanity.
Maggie Litster, commercial director at Groupama Insurances, examines the sorry state of the UK commercial sector and considers what action is needed to prevent any long-term damage.
AIT targets insurers.
Customer relationship management specialist AIT is set to make a major push for insurance business t...
RSA extends Enterprise to net.
Royal & Sun Alliance has extended its SME commercial broking solution Enterprise to include the net....
What the Papers Say.
The Express Space chiefs at NASA have pulled the plug on a space shuttle replacement nicknamed th...
BIBA Impacts on smaller broker training.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association is to team up with management consultancy Impact Plus to ...
City3k seeks backing.
IT company City3k said this week it was in negotiations with "a couple of major players" to gain fur...
Chester Street payouts fall short.
Payouts to victims of asbestos-related diseases covered by liquidated insurer Chester Street Insuran...
Insurers ignore emerging market.
Insurers should look more closely at the provision and cost of products for the financially excluded...
Irish broker jailed.
An Irish broker has been jailed for seven years, after pleading guilty to fraud and forgery involvin...
AA pays out £20m compensation.
The AA this week agreed to pay £20m in compensation to cartographer Ordnance Survey having admitted ...
Insurers ignore property flood aid.
Insurers have failed to respond to a new property-drying technique that could save them thousands of...
Results - DL extends across Europe.
Direct Line said it was progressing its plans to extend its familiar red phone brand across Europe, ...
Insurers fight phantom fraud.
Insurers are set to combat the rising tide of "phantom passenger" motor fraud cases in the wake of a...
Appointment at The Miller Insurance Group.
The Miller Insurance Group has taken on Martin Gray as a member of its holdings board. Mr Gray recen...
Retail therapy.
Household insurers should not be complacent, with new entrants homing in on the market all the time. As well as internet brokers, retail giants are currently buying into the sector, providing those clients prepared to shop around with a cure for their…
Paving the road to recovery.(2)
Rehabilitation has enormous potential to save money and livelihoods, but it must be done effectively and efficiently. For insurers to pick up the pieces after an accident, all parties must be open to consensual methods of claims handling, says Steve…
Car wars.
The non-standard motor market has opened up, with specialist providers losing their pole position to the non-specialists, who have moved up a gear using sophisticated rating engines to quote. The race is on to recover lost ground, according to Edward…
Appointment at Combined Insurance.
Combined Insurance has recruited Alan Winch to work in its special risk division, which underwrites ...
Gerling shake-up.
A management shake-up at insurer Gerling will see the native Australian chief executive officer of G...
Limited trial for R&R's solution.
Brokers taking part in the pilot scheme for the internet broking solution 24 7 since January have on...