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DAS creates motor team
Legal expenses insurer DAS has created a new team focussing on motor business from major corporate clients.
Success for M&S home insurance agent in Direct Excellence contact centre award
Stacey Tyrie of the Marks and Spencer home insurance call centre in Perth has won the Direct Excelle...
Unum backs RNID for tinnitus awareness
Disability insurer Unum has teamed up with the Royal National Institute for Deaf people to raise awa...
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Appointment at Silverbeck Rymer
Law firm Silverbeck Rymer has added Mark Evans as an associate partner. Mr Evans joins after 11 year...
QBE Ireland launched
QBE has launched QBE Ireland, the result of the integration and rebranding of its three Irish primar...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny was delighted to be invited to an annual broker networking dinner last week in Oxfordshire wit...
AI appoints vehicle head
AI Claims Solutions has appointed Andy Crinson as head of vehicle supply. Mr Crinson has worked in v...
New Aon regional heads
Aon in Birmingham has appointed Simon Baker as branch director and former Footman James commercial d...
RK Harrison division director defects to rival
Holman's has taken the schemes director from rival RK Harrison to head up its newly-formed binding a...
Appointment at Blyth Valley
Blyth Valley has made four new additions to its Ipswich-based team. Stephan Pieri joins the company ...
BGL appoints associate director
Gary Elliott has been appointed as the new associate director for account development in ACM ULR, the claims management arm of the BGL Group
Rock Insurance enters the business travel arena
Rock Insurance has launched its new business travel insurance policy.
QBE integrates Irish operations
QBE today announces the launch of QBE Ireland following the integration and rebranding of its three Irish primary insurance businesses, D A Constable Syndicate (Ireland), Ensign and QBE Insurance.
Flooding effect is negligible on motor premiums
The June floods had little effect on motor insurance premiums in the direct market during quarter three, according Experian, the global information solutions company.
AI Claims hires vehicle supply manager
Ai Claims Solutions has appointed Andy Crinson to the position of head of vehicle supply reporting to Jim Monteith, technical services director.
IP launch planned from after Somerville appoints McCooey
Somerville Holdings has appointed Sarah McCooey, ex-managing director of Lloyd’s underwriting agency Special Risk Services, for a push into the intellectual property market.
Lorega in Axa swoop
Managing agent Lorega has further strengthened its sales team with the appointment of David Gribbon to manage the company’s relationships with its panel of brokers in the north of England. He has previously held both underwriting and business development…
Equity launches new breast cancer travel product
Equity Insurance Group has launched a new travel policy, specifically developed to allow people diagnosed with breast cancer access to affordable cover.
AIR: Wipha to cost less than $250m
Catastrophe modeller AIR Worldwide has said it estimates insured losses from Typhoon Wipha are unlik...
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GIC Re to open branch office in London
Reinsurance has learned that General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC) is to open a full branch i...
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Swiss Re launches adverse weather derivatives for poorer countries
Swiss Re has launched an adverse weather risk transfer market for emerging countries under the banner climate adaptation development programme (CADP).