News
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 ...
UK Axa is a drag.
The performance of the UK arm of French insurer Axa and winter storm damage in France helped drag do...
Appointment at Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
Joe Green has been appointed head of client services in Europe at Watson Wyatt. He joins the company...
Environment WP a liability for UK.
UK insurers still have reservations about the European Commission White Paper on environmental liabi...
Indian backtrack.
Germany's Allianz has withdrawn from a general insurance joint venture in India with Alpic Finance. ...
EU rules create level playing field.
The European Commission published its long-awaited draft directive on insurance mediation this week,...
Internet threat to rate rises in motor sector.
Motor is one of the few areas of the market where real rate increases are coming through. But there ...
Appointment at St Paul.
John Hemmings has been promoted to product manager - automotive at St Paul International Insurance. ...
Ace Europe keeps MUM.
Ace Europe is to invest in a minority shareholding in new start-up Momentum Underwriting Management,...
Technology Supplement - Window on the e-world.
We asked several companies to explain their e-commerce strategies and to gauge their own progress so far.
PolicyMaster up 5%.
PolicyMaster's interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2000, show an increase in turnover o...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny was shopping this week for a new dress for Friday's Chartered Insurance Institute annual dinne...
Northern lights are in training.
I read the article Manchester United, (Post Magazine, 7 September p15) with interest, as we have a 2...
Folgate opening.
Broker-only insurer Folgate Insurance has opened its third new commercial regional office this year ...
Plumeri to head broker Willis.
Joseph Plumeri will take over as executive chairman and chief executive officer at global broker Wil...
High quake stakes for US.
The US is facing annual earthquake property losses of £3bn and an additional £550m for damage to con...
GISC well-placed to rule code.
I applaud the efforts to establish a robust claims code for the handling of personal lines claims (P...
Davis Group looks set to earn £50m.
Commercial broker Roberts and Davis has become a public limited company and has rebranded itself The...
Lloyd's Connection.
The Corporation of Lloyd's has selected Albany Software's Connect eTransactions solution to enable t...
XL in its Element.
Bermuda-based insurer XL Capital is to form a new unit, Element Re, to provide weather risk manageme...
Aon to rebrand UK operations.
Global broker Aon is looking at rebranding its UK operations as part of an ongoing business restruct...