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A question of financial acumen.
I must take exception to your editorial, Status row same old story (Post Magazine 17 August p15). ...
Lloyd's in virtual venture.
Lloyd's is to significantly expand its website as part of plans to create a virtual marketplace. ...
Appointment at Provident.
Provident Insurance has made Jarrod Oliver its marketing manager. Mr Oliver joined the insurer in 19...
Save by shopping.
The British Insurance Brokers' Association claims that billions of pounds are being wasted on expens...
The art of valuation.
Chubb Europe has launched a new state-of-the-art software product - Artisan - to increase the accura...
Moving to Munich.
Lloyd's managing agency Apollo Underwriting, which manages syndicate 457 at Lloyd's (Watkins), has c...
The power of the net.
Online insurance has gone from strength to strength, according to the September figures for financia...
Ex RSA trio in new launch.
Three former Royal & Sun Alliance managers have set up a new online property claims handling service...
What the Papers Say.
SUNDAY EXPRESS In a Waterloo bookshop, there is a towering stack of Michael Moss's history of Sta...
Net increase.
In the next 12 months, 80% of general insurers will be writing online business, according to Steve V...
Sampo fares well.
Finland's Sampo Insurance, a multi-line insurer offering both general and life products, has been gi...
Polaris: focus on b2b revolution.
Polaris revealed it is investing in several business-to-business websites, benefiting brokers and in...
CIS finds companies socially responsible.
Companies across the UK are taking their wider social responsibilities increasingly seriously, accor...
InsurE goes live.
New internet start-up InsurE-com, which connects insurers and brokers, has now gone live and said it...
Insurers get genetic test green light
Insurers have been given the go-ahead to use the results of a genetics test to identify people with ...
Fuelling action?
A survey by Longford Insurance Schemes has shown 60% of motorists would back a return to blockades i...
Alliance AIMs to acquire Bernard Knope.
Commercial lines broker Alliance Insurance Management is to acquire Suffolk-based insurance agent Be...
Prumerica seeks European acquisitions.
Prudential Insurance of America, which is not part of UK giant Prudential, is actively looking to ac...
Appointment at GAB Robins.
GAB Robins has recruited David Germaine as sales & marketing director. Mr Germaine joins the company...
White heat web wait.
Neil Utley, chief executive of Cox Insurance Retail Division, warned brokers they "hadn't yet experi...
Investment in people is a must.
It was pleasing to hear that 'People are the key' was a clear message throughout the Chartered Insur...
Banking on small business.
The corporate mid-market sector is on most insurers shopping lists as a market sector ripe for growt...
Equitable set to be stranded.
Equitable Life could fail to find a buyer at the end of its bidding process, a leading analyst warne...
Intech takes flight.
Intech Solutions has chosen Hummingbird software company as its preferred supplier of components for...