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Appointment at Kennedys.
City-based firm of solicitors Kennedys has promoted four assistant solicitors to Partners. Nina Gast...
Norman enhances building trades policy.
Norman Insurance has relaunched its building trades policy, Master Tradesman, adding several new fea...
Footman James develops website.
The cars may be old, but the method of selling is brand new. Specialist motor broker Footman James h...
Appointment at BUPA.
Peter Jacobs, chief executive of BUPA, has announced that he will be retiring this summer. He will b...
Appointment at pi direct.
Professional indemnity specialist pi direct has appointed Sarah Roberts as deputy underwriter. She j...
Appointment at the Crowe Insurance Group.
The Crowe Insurance Group has appointed Quentin Crowe (above), head of marketing, and Norman Mintz, ...
Money is coming back into insurance.
Clearly, money is coming back into insurance. While the early 1990s saw companies reining back on co...
A non-standard approach.
Next month will mark Orion's first year in the non-standard motor market. Tim Collison spoke to Rob Ryan and his team about their underwriting and marketing strategy.
Engineering sale.
HSB Haughton Engineering Insurance Services has acquired SGS-INSTAT, the inspection division of SGS ...
Hambro Assistance set for re-branding following acquisition.
The name and brand of Hambro Assistance look set to change following the news that Hambros is sellin...
The shock of the new.
The broker travel market will soon be subject to IPT at 17.5%. If this were not enough to contend with, developments in Internet technology are threatening to reshape the travel insurance sector, says Caroline Duncan.
Unprepared for EMU.
Less than 5% of insurance company IT managers in Europe have completed programmes for adapting to th...
ITT L&E name change.
ITT London & Edinburgh looks set to change its name to Hartford, in line with its US parent the Hart...
TIFCO defections.
Premium financing operation Transamerica Insurance Finance Company (TIFCO) has lost managing directo...
BIIBA submits its self-regulation plan to Treasury.
The British Insurance and Investment Brokers Association has sent its regulatory submission to the T...
No entry for Cornhill car fleet insurance.
I read with interest the article by Andrew Newman on the Motor Fleet market (p17-19) in the May edit...
All in the hands of the Treasury.
By the time this issue of Professional Broking is published, all submissions on broker regulation wi...
Crowe moves into property following headhunt.
Crowe Insurance (Syndicate 963) has poached property underwriters Jonathan Mallyon and Nigel Tatlock...
Aon court action fails.
Aon's High Court case against Yorkshire broker Smithson Mason has collapsed. The national broker att...
Appointment at Lombard.
Lombard General Insurance has made a string of new appointments. Grant Whiskin has been made affinit...
Lombard moves up market into period homes.
Lombard General Insurance is targeting listed and period homes with the launch of a new policy in pa...
Policy Master to float on the Alternative Investment Market.
Software house Policy Master is to float on the Alternative Investment Market in order to position t...
E&L pre-nuptials protect the big day and the honeymoon luggage.
As the costs of weddings continue to increase, E&L Insurance Group has put together a new wedding pa...
New ABI chairman.
British American Financial Services chief executive Sandy Leitch will be the new chairman of the Ass...