News
Lloyd's to launch new central service centre.
A new central service centre to assist managing agents with the processing of high volume, low-value...
Travel: single saver.
Preferential Direct is offering single parents discounted travel insurance. The amended multi-trip p...
Printing pensions.
The Printing Industry Scheme has chosen Legal & General as the sole provider of stakeholder pensions...
Healthy link up.
An internet company has teamed up with Pinnacle Insurance to launch a new medical cash plan. The Med...
Jail trail.
Although ex-offenders might only have a beer and their partner on their mind when they first taste freedom, they are being increasingly targeted by niche insurers. Jonathan Swift investigates.
Egg in pension move.
Egg, the internet banking arm of insurer Prudential, has reportedly said it is weighing up a move in...
Bad industry image is ongoing frustration.
I agree wholeheartedly with your editorial (Post Magazine, 7 September, p13) suggesting that a poor ...
Appointment at Prudential Europe.
Ciaran McGettrick is the new managing director at Dublin-based Prudential Europe Management Services...
Legal pool figures.
The Law Society has said it will not know until late November the figure for the number of law firms...
Safety in Travel.
Travel Insurance Club has amended its winter sports policy to cover off-piste skiing, heli-skiing, t...
Technology Supplement - Virtual minefield.
The arrival of internet technology is opening up a whole new spectrum of liability issues. As new legislation is being drafted to cope with the virtual risks, says David Fanning, insurers are having to rethink their existing covers.
Appointment at Select & Protect.
Select & Protect, the Essex-based underwriting agency has recently appointed Malcolm Watson as key a...
eSynergy allows website savings.
Software and consultancy supplier Eurobase, believes it can save insurers up to £15,000 per web page...
Euclidian to buy marine from Cox.
Lloyd's insurer Cox is to sell its marine business to fellow Lloyd's insurer Euclidian as part of a ...
Big bucks in 1990s.
General insurance business continued to make an underwriting loss last year - £2.3bn in the UK, acco...
IRM: risk course.
The Institute of Risk Management and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health have launched...
Appointment at Kennedys.
Kennedys has taken on Jo Plumstead from Clyde & Co where she has worked for 10 years, latterly as se...
Ex-Indie managers may go it alone.
Ex-Independent Insurance board member Kevin Pallet and former colleague Geoff Crisp are planning to ...
Appointment at Aon.
Adrian Fisher has been appointed by Aon as its head of corporate health & welfare division. He takes...
AIG president quits.
Evan Greenberg, son of AIG chairman Maurice Greenberg, has resigned from the company as president an...
Broken Promise.
Promise, the mortgage business of Winterthur Life, has closed its doors to new business with the exp...
A dose of liability.
Miller Insurance Group has helped broker a new liability insurance package for the biopharmaceutical...
Bristol Water works.
Bristol Water has joined forces with intermediary Personal Insurance Plan Services to offer househol...
Appointment at Ward Evans Group.
Ward Evans has recruited three new members of staff to its London office. Christopher Oakland joins ...