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Ecclesiastical shakes up property owners market with Crown Estate win - Insurance News Now
Post senior reporter Amy Ellis outlines this week's major general insurance stories including news that new entrant Ecclesiastical has shaken up the property owners market by winning a multi-billion pound portfolio belonging to The Crown Estate, as…
Topham lands Quote Me Happy role
Former Green Flag director Henry Topham has been named as retail and trading director of Aviva’s recently launched Quote Me Happy brand.
TSC risks missing the point about motor insurance pricing
The Association of British insurers has responded to the results of a Young Marmalade survey which revealed that 96% of young drivers feel priced off the road by high insurance premiums.
PMI discount for Hong Kong based customers
Now Health International is offering prospective customers who are resident in Hong Kong the opportunity to reduce their private medical insurance premium by 15% by restricting the type of room they have access to when seeking hospital treatment.
Ex-KPMG insurance leader joins RSA as NED
RSA has appointed Alastair Barbour to its board as a non-executive director as of today.
Allan Clare resurfaces at Barclaycard
Former RBS Insurance risk and financial crime boss Allan Clare has moved out of insurance and into the better-resourced world of credit cards, becoming head of financial crime at Barclaycard.
RBSI reveals £15m referral fee windfall
Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance benefitted from referral fee income of £15m in the first half of this year – more than 7% of its H1 profits.
Ablett outlines WCI modernisation goals
The newly installed master of the Worshipful Company of Insurers Tim Ablett has vowed to attract younger members and improve the WCI’s communications.
Aviva unveils new personal lines and commercial underwriting heads
Aviva has bolstered its underwriting, pricing and products team with four new senior appointments.
Axa names new recruit
Axa Personal Lines has appointed Mike Worne as an independent partner development executive.
Focus on personal injury fraud means insurers missing the bigger picture
Law firm Beachcroft has warned that insurers are so focused on personal injury fraud they are missing large-scale credit hire scams.
Staddon resurfaces at motorcycle specialist Devitt
Former British Insurance Brokers’ Association boss Peter Staddon has vowed to make Devitt “a force to be reckoned with” after joining as personal lines executive director.
BIS 2011: RBSI boss: telematics could create insurance underclass
Young drivers represent a huge reputational risk to insurers and telematics could create an uninsurable motor underclass unless the industry addresses urgent questions on data standards and ownership.
Expert analysis - aggregators: Mixing things up
Softening motor rates, more movement between best-price brands and augmented ancillary income emerge as aggregator themes
Post Magazine - 06 October 2011
The latest issue of Post magazine is now available to subscribers as a digital and interactive e-book.
NZ faces mass withdrawal as earthquake claims stack up – Insurance News Now
Post reporter Callum Brodie outlines this week's major general insurance stories including the possibility that insurers and reinsurers could stop providing earthquake cover in New Zealand altogether, forcing its government to handle claims.
20% of holidaymakers travel without insurance
One in five UK holidaymakers go abroad without travel insurance, according to Abta.
Staddon resurfaces at Devitt
Former British Insurance Brokers Association head of technical services Peter Staddon has joined Devitt as broker personal lines executive director.
Post Blog: Insurance must embrace the cloud
Organisations in the insurance sector don't have a reputation for changing their software very often.
BIS 2011: Numerate grads the future of underwriting
The future of underwriting rests in the hands of graduates with strong numeracy skills and business understanding who are willing to embrace specialist areas of the industry.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny was very close to whipping out her cheque book at the sight of the all the diamond jewellery up for auction at Sterling Insurance’s open day.
News analysis: Insurance industry feels the shockwaves of the economic meltdown
It has been hard to escape the doom and gloom of the volatile stock market and wider economic woes over the past week.
Looking back - 1991: Hitting the hot hatches
On 26 September 1991, Post reported a tale familiar to today’s law-abiding general public: soaring motor insurance premiums. Current year-on-year rises cited are in the region of 30% to 40%, but the figures from 20 years ago suggested hikes of up to 74%…
View from the top: Time for action
Insurers must fight to protect their fundamental purpose faced with the threat of external interventions, says Barry Smith, CEO, Ageas UK.