Broker
Overheard was Intrigued to hear
Overheard was intrigued to hear that Chris Blackham once had a brief foray into life beyond insuranc...
Tactical moves
Layton Blackham
Three years in the life of an editor
January is named after Janus, the two-headed Roman god who looked both forwards and backwards. This ...
Link gets Gibraltar-based backing
Link Underwriting Agency is now backed by Link Insurance, a Gibraltar-based insurance company. The L...
Product of the month
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The nouveau riche niche
Mid net worth
Appointments
Intermediaries Stuart Alexander has taken on two insurance experts as part of plans to boost expert...
Folgate readies web claims system for launch in March
Folgate is working with e-comms specialist edgeIPK to develop a fully web-based claims-handling capa...
Fortis Insurance GWP increase
Fortis Insurance reported gross written premium (GWP) for third-quarter 2003 of £418m, an 8% increas...
Home & Legacy/Cornhill MNW out this month
Home & Legacy intends to "aggressively" roll out its joint mid net worth (MNW) venture with Allianz ...
Household GWP increase
Household GWP has increased by 14% to £70.8m (2002 Q3: £61.9m). Barry Smith, chief executive, Fortis...
Avis Rent A Car contracts out
Avis Rent A Car has contracted out the accident management and claims recovery side of its rental fl...
Williams tight-lipped about TBS's membership take-up
Mike Williams, the chief executive of Total Broker Solutions (TBS), has condemned other broker netwo...
Folgate Partnership announces acquisition
The Folgate Partnership has announced its 30th acquisition: Dorset-based Broadstone Insurance Servic...
Layton Blackham Group on verge of expansion
The Layton Blackham Group is on the verge of further expansion after restructuring its investment fr...
Cox continues on the acquisition trail
Cox Insurance (Cox) has today announced that it has bought a book of rural/commercial motor business from Marsh’s Private Client Services.
The Folgate Partnership creates a new underwriting agency
Folgate has announced the formation a new business, Folgate Underwriting Management Specialty (FUMSL), which will provide underwriting services for Folgate and other selected brokers.
Brokers team up to launch Anglo-Irish alliance
Source Brokers, an alliance of Irish insurance brokers focusing on the SME business insurance sector, has formed a strategic alliance with the Midland Broker Alliance.
A question of caps
Your Broking Success article (PB, November, p19) was inaccurate. Kerry London's Alan Roe advises th...
A Beddis of roses
Beddis & Partners
Cox acquires Bennett UK
Bennett UK has sold to Cox Insurance for £4.5m, one year after the business underwent a management b...
Appointment at JL Manson & Partners
Emma Chadwick has joined Manchester-based broker JL Manson & Partners' personal lines team. Chadwick...
Alec Finch launches portal
The Alec Finch Group has formally launched a client portal site, AF.NET. The site has been piloted f...
Premium finance aims commercial
Belfast-based Open + Direct Group is rolling out Premium First to the commercial sector. The Premiu...