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The key is in the detail.
Everyone agrees that insurers need to create innovative products, but what does this mean in practice? Rob Page believes there are many misapprehensions.
Direct sales forces survive.
Your article "Axe to fall on direct sales" (Post Magazine 25 November, p3) suggested that the days o...
Sponsorship fever.
Next year's British Insurance Brokers' Association Conference in Edinburgh is attracting much intere...
Quality for life badge gets the go-ahead.
Life insurers and pension providers will be able to apply for a quality mark under a new scheme laun...
HSBC voyages into marine insurance.
HSBC Insurance Brokers hopes to give intermediaries sea legs with the launch of a of a host of new p...
Bug is history'.
Accident damage specialist Audatex's managing director Alex Leonard has dismissed concerns over the ...
Full steam ahead for P&I club.
London based Protection & Indemnity Club Steamship Mutual plans to resume underwriting activities. ...
Miles South National Lottery Contingency Insurance policies.
Lloyd's insurance broker Miles Smith has shown it has got balls by extending its current National Lo...
IFP tries again to woo LIA.
The Institute of Financial Planning is working feverishly to revive the deal which would see the Lif...
Primary International's Paul O'Sullivan.
A Big Apple a day has kept the doctor away from Primary International's Paul O'Sullivan. The managin...
New chairman for Lloyd's Community Programme
Michael Carpenter, chief financial officer of LIMIT, is to succeed Robin Gilkes as chairman of the Ll...
Eversheds expands in Europe
Leading insurance law firm Eversheds is merging with Netherlands practice Boekel De Neree. Boekel D...
Cox to net success
Lloyd's insurer Cox has teamed up with leading internet companies top offer personal lines products o...
Ace restructures in Bermuda
Ace Group is restructuring its insurance operations in Bermuda. The changes at Ace Bermuda include ...
Swiss Re buys Underwriters Re
Swiss Re is to move into the broker distribution market in the US with the purchase of California-bas...
Long term care long term delay
The government has once again put off a decision on how it will reform the funding of long term care ...
Leek puts stop on takeover
Leek United, the building society targeted for a £30m takeover by Murray Financial Corp is to remain ...
RSA resignation sparks off reshuffle
The resignation of Peter Burrows, director UK commercial at Royal & Sun Alliance, has prompted a resh...
Tempest Re makes US appointment
Bermudian monoline catastrophe reinsurer Tempest Re has appointed reinsurance veteran of 21 years Jac...
VAT was payable on insurance discounts.
The British Horse Society is a registered charity with 50,000 members. The benefits it provides i...
SVB moves to insulate itself from Lloyd's
SVB Holdings, which recently acquired CLM has moved its underwriting risks for the last three years t...
Appointment at Hill Dickinson.
Heather Baucher has joined the insurance department of law firm Hill Dickinson. She will move to the...
Axa's Japanese deal.
Axa is to take control of Japanese life insurer Nippon Dantai and invest up to 1.9bn euros into a ne...
Cowboy builders
Brokers are warning customers about the dangers of cowboy builders. Norwich Union is sending out a ...