News
Online ratings.
Details of the insurance industry's motor group ratings for all manufactured private cars are now av...
New HSBC Select website.
HSBC Select (UK) has launched a website for the small business sector which it claims will become th...
Firm deals new Ace.
Ace Bermuda has formed a new division, Ace Financial Solutions International, to provide non-traditi...
Law firm thinks big.
A barristers' chambers aims to become one of the largest insurance litigation specialists in the UK ...
Kingsmead to get new ownership.
Lloyd's managing agency Kingsmead Underwriting Agency - with a capacity in the region of £200m - cou...
What's on the menu?
The cafeteria-style benefits system is being adopted by more and more companies. Nicolette Loizou. discovers what this system offers employees.
Syn-tastic, mate.
Today is one of the most nerve-racking days in the year for Lloyd's underwriters, with the publicati...
InsurE joins Cover.
Internet specialist InsurE-com has announced a partnership with the Northern Irish Internet Solution...
A personnel message.
As a keen watcher of personnel changes in loss adjusting, I read your recent articles on the subject...
Groupama forms e-comm team.
Groupama has set up a new e-commerce team to help its intermediaries develop e-commerce business str...
Extra windfall.
Scottish Widows has told its 900,000 members that they can expect a higher windfall. It said the val...
Appointments at FirstCity.
FirstCity's professional indemnity group has recruited Victor Knope and Carol Fuller. Mr Knope is di...
Mondial's three-year target for travel arm.
Mondial Assistance aims to become one of the UK's market leaders for travel insurance within three y...
New call centre.
DKV Previasa, the Spanish arm of German insurance provider DKV, has opened a new customer call centr...
Paul Lesley Daniel v Fredrick Mark Walker.
Court of Appeal 3 May 2000 Liability was admitted in a personal injury case and the parties agreed...
What the Papers Say.
DAILY EXPRESS Red tape proved fatal for an 87-year-old man who died of a heart attack as he waite...
Pensions results.
A survey of pension funds has found that four in 10 people running a pension scheme consider themsel...
its4me says GEMINInet.
Online insurance intermediary its4me, has announced that it will use Policy Master's web-enabled quo...
Industry is working to win trust on genetics.
The insurance industry is acutely aware that gaining public trust and confidence is crucial to its h...
Weekend winner.
Richard Shinnick, professional indemnity compliance executive at the Insurance Brokers' Registration...
Birth of the traffic warden.
Forty years ago, a new idea was floated in the Road Traffic and Road Improvements Bill for the estab...
RSA rates to rocket.
Royal & Sun Alliance is pushing through tough rate increases and introducing a new underwriting appr...
Focus of attention.
Once a niche market, directors and officers' insurance has been pushed to the top of many companies' agendas by a variety of factors. Marcus Alcock talks to the sector's players who are making the most of this change.
D-day for Equitable.
Mutual insurer Equitable Life's future will be decided in the next month following its appeal hearin...