Commercial
Will the cycle be unbroken?
Royal & Sun Alliance UK chief executive Duncan Boyle is bullish aboutthe future for his company - but is less excited than many of his peersabout the strength and extent of the current hard market, as he tells JonGuy
Sirius first to join Polaris's imarketplace
Sirius has become the first software provider to join with Polaris'sindustry-wide trading-platform i...
RSA to rethink on small brokers
Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) is to announce new ways in which it willdeal with its smaller brokers in ...
Claims - Appointment at Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton's forensic and investigations services practice hasannounced the appointment of Alast...
Appointment at Grant Thornton.
Grant Thornton has appointed Alastair Whiteside within its insurance claims solutions division at it...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill.
Paul Messer has been appointed manager, commercial property at Allianz Cornhill. Jason Potter is the...
Appointment at insurE-com
Joe Sultana has been appointed to the position of UK national salesmanager with insurE-com. Joe has ...
Sectornet thinks commercial
A new commercial lines product from Sectornet went live last month,hot on the heels of a private mot...
WH reaches agreement with Axa
National broker Warren Hill (WH) has reached a definitive agreementwith Axa Insurance to take on Axa...
Major IT failure, business and computer fraud
Major IT failure, business and computer fraud, risk of fire, andunexpected loss of key personnel are...
Buyout success for Ablett
Former Groupama managing director Tim Ablett has spoken of "anopportunity that was just too good to ...
Risk perspectives - Managers must meet
'Stakeholder' has become a buzzword, and, like all such words, canbecome overused and irritating. Ye...
The path to perfect PI
Companies can avoid dead ends on the long and winding road to acquiring professional indemnity cover by being more proactive and putting risk management systems in place, says Trevor Moss.
Gilliam steps down
Sir Patrick Gilliam has stepped down as chairman of Royal & SunAlliance after six years. He was suc...
RSA confident of re-entering FTSE 100 index
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) has said it is confident that itwill bounce back into the FTSE 10...
BWP heads for the south-west
Broker Bray Wintour Patis (BWP) has expanded its presence in thesouth-west with the opening of a new...
News Review: March - Fraud costs councils #1bn per year
Research by the public-sector risk-managers' association Alarmrevealed that local authorities were h...
Appointment at Hiscox
Hiscox has made Aaron Devitt head of its Scottish office in Glasgow. Martin McBrearty joins the Sco...
Appointment at Smart & Cook
Richard Darbyshire has been appointed branch director of Smart & Cook's Harrogate operation and Nei...
insurE-com roadshows
The roadshow season continues, with insurE-com announcing a further 11 shows this spring. Each stop...
E-Market looks set to go live by September
Polaris hopes to go live with the E-Market system in September, according to Mark Coverdale, chairm...
Three new underwriting teams help RSA with products focus
The professional and financial risks division of Royal & SunAlliance has created dedicated underwri...
Long-term workplace absence management
Product: Care Support - integrated sickness absence service fromGissings Underwriter: N/A Commissi...
False claims 'on par with taking towels'
The insurance industry is still fighting a losing battle with publicperception after a new study rev...