Commercial
Called to account.
Insurers providing professional indemnity for accountants are having to deal with the tough stance taken by the various chartered institutes on year 2000. Shona Cronin looks at what this means for the market.
Fierce competition forces PI insurers out of the market.
Harsh competition in the professional indemnity market is forcing some insurers to either shrink the...
Italian carriers up London presence.
Italian insurer Generali is to make London the worldwide head office for its Global operation within...
Appointment at ITT London & Edinburgh.
Sue Rogers has been appointed to claims customer service manager within the commercial lines divisio...
Appointment at RE Brown and Others.
RE Brown and Others has appointed Roberto Murru to its professional and financial risks underwriting...
Built to last.
Professional indemnity is now compulsory for all architects. As the competition hots up, insurers are enhancing their PI policies with extra features says Steve Banner.
Experian's Polaris initiative in testing.
Experian is now well under way with the testing of its central mainframe system - The Insurance On-l...
CCS gets selective on commercial broking.
Dartford-based, CCS has launched CCS Select, an underwriting service which guarantees quotation resp...
Les McIntosh.
Electronic insurance trading is still needlessly bogged down in a morass of different systems. Why can't insurers sort it out?
A break with tradition.
Professional indemnity insurance is not just for the professions, cover is now being tailored for all manner of different sectors. Steve Banner examines the growing PI market.
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Andrew Devey has been appointed special risks surveyor for Property & Casualty Services. He joined f...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Gloucester-based Ecclesiastical Insurance has made several new appointments. Jan Kirkham has been ma...
Navigators & General sponsor celebrations.
Navigators & General, the yacht and motorboat insurer sponsored the centenary celebrations for The C...
New agency launched.
Dartford-based CCS Select is a new underwriting agency specialising in non-motor commercial risks. I...
Preventative measures.
Household theft claims have fallen in recent years, partly due to better security. Steve Banner investigates insurers' attitudes to theft prevention.
Smart & Cook name drop.
Harrogate-based insurance broking and financial services company, Smart & Cook Group, has changed it...
Appointment at Drewe Insurance.
Chris Tarry (above) has joined specialist leisure insurance intermediaries, Drewe Insurance. He prev...
Appointment at Ecclesiastical.
Adam Gittins has joined Gloucester-based Ecclesiastical Insurance as strategic planning manager. He ...
Steve Knight.
Polaris seems to have reached 'critical mass', but should it have been designed to make use of the Internet?
Appointment at pi direct.
Professional indemnity specialist pi direct has appointed Sarah Roberts as deputy underwriter. She j...