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Life after broker division.

Royal & SunAlliance has scrapped its broker division. Tim Collison spoke to Peter Burrows, UK regions director at RSA, about what this means for both its commercial and personal lines operations.

On a collision course.

Insurers have been battling with accident repairers and solicitors for the cut-price end of the uninsured loss recovery market for some time now. However, Steve Banner says insurers are now taking a different stance.

Les McIntosh.

The advent of digital TV looks set to boost Internet services. We must be ready for this: let's set up a central insurance site.

A matter of perspective.

The definition of non-standard is a moveable feast, largely determined by the tastes of standard insurers. Andrew Newman says that what was once a true niche is now fiercely competitive mainstream business.

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.

Going private.

For some time, experts have been predicting that changes to the welfare state are likely to boost to the PMI market. However, as Simon Threadgold explains, growth in this sector is still slow.

ITT L&E name change.

ITT London & Edinburgh looks set to change its name to Hartford, in line with its US parent the Hart...

Europe motors on.

Direct tele-insurance is growing rapidly in European countries such as France, Belgium and Spain, ac...

Direct Line to rescue.

Direct Line has launched into the motor breakdown market with a new service called Direct Line Rescu...

Appointment at Generali.

Neil Moore (above) has been appointed manager of Generali's offshore division, with responsibility f...

Tony Lancaster.

Insurers are doing themselves no favours by prolonging the soft market, when what the customer ultimately wants is high quality.

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