Throwback Thursday: NU goes west & D&G’s PC deal
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to March 1996 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when Norwich Union went west and Domestic & General branched out into computers.
14 March 1996: NU plans to calm brokers’ direct fearsNorwich Union was going west to try to allay brokers’ fears over the company’s direct operations.
More than 60 brokers in Bristol heard Patrick
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