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Brokers just add costs.
The Consumer Association of Ireland has launched a scathing attack on the country's motor insurance ...
Insurer goes plastic.
Zurich Commercial has launched a new product for the plastics industry. As well as offering all-risk...
Broker networks doomed to fail.
Many broker alliances and networks will not survive in the long term, according to Countrywide Insur...
The movers and shakers
Broker Aon has had ups and downs already this year. As well as a slight image shift, one of its more positive moves was the appointment of former Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor to the board. Marcus Alcock talks to both Mr Taylor and chairman Dennis Mahoney…
Standard Life set to advertise in cinemas.
Standard Life is set to hit cinema screens next month with the seventh commercial in its family-base...
St Paul rails.
Insurer St Paul is set to decide its future involvement in the UK railway insurance market, after le...
Life goes on.
The fallout from the South-east Asian financial crisis has done little to hold back the life insurance business, in fact the region is proving very attractive to foreign insurers as many recent joint ventures have proved, says Jeremy Golden.
More Effective.
Effective Image has opened a presentation and new media centre in London to provide the London and L...
PIA fines John Lamb.
John Lamb Partnership, based in south-east London, has been fined £10,000 by the Personal Investment...
Appointment at Alexander Forbes.
Intermediary Alexander Forbes has recruited a new mortgage manager Peter Crowe to head up its Croydo...
Smart & Cook sets up new Leeds division.
Smart & Cook has set up a new 14-strong Leeds-based corporate division, Smart & Cook Consulting, led...
Canadian IT firm sets sights on UK.
Canadian-based e-djuster, the services and software provider for content assessment and claims handl...
Underwriters get wake-up call.
Wake up. Wake up. To the twentieth century. The words of a punk band in the 1970s (the Vibrators, as...
Distribution is a disappointment.
One in two insurers admit to being disappointed with their partnerships with non-traditional distrib...
Source of the problem.
A recent asbestos exposure claim was thrown out of court as the judge ruled it could not be proved from which of several sources the illness was contracted. Andrew McDougall considers whether the case is typical and assesses its chances of being…
Pre-launch website test.
Website and software tester SIM Group has gone to market with its Performance Assessment Package, to...
Playing to win.
In the competitive world of assistance, there's everything to play for, and the services companies offer are becoming increasingly comprehensive, asserts Rachel Gordon, as they fight to win business.
Coversure spreads.
Coversure Insurance Services has opened its 58th office in Worthing. The Huntingdon-based company ha...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY MAIL A motorist who ran over a deaf and dumb girl won almost £500,000 in compensation last ...
Direct approach.
Internet insurer Direct Line.com has launched an online claims facility allowing customers to submit...
PMI promises are slammed.
Private health insurers this week welcomed a Conservative Party promise to make group private medica...
Shame about the branding.
The rush to create online brands leaves me to wonder how all these companies will appear in 10 years...
Partnerships and affinity deals: a marriage of minds, or a problem
Partnerships, or affinity deals are all the rage at the moment, with the Barclays tie-up with Legal ...
Carlyle rebranded.
South-west and Wales-based Carlyle Insurance Brokers has been rebranded under the name of its parent...