E-Trading
Postcode lottery raises household flood barriers
This month's Power Hour, which took place at the DAS offices in Bristol, focuses on new levels of information and resources available to insurers involved in assessing flood-risk, and asks if this new information is specific enough to meet the needs of…
Pavillion to launch in-house premium finance facility
Pavillion Insurance Network is to launch its own in-house premium finance facility from April 2005. ...
Motor repair factoring company believed to have collapsed
A factoring company for motor repairers is understood to have collapsed through lack of funding. In...
Direct marketing faces new scrutiny
Direct marketing continues to be a lucrative tool, especially for the insurance sector, but Alex Walsh warns that random targeting of a product will eventually backfire and will soon be outlawed
insuranceage.com poll
This month's insuranceage.com poll asked 'Do you think resistance to Financial Services Authority re...
Rainbow International finds a way
Restoration company Rainbow International has found a way to establish toxic mould levels to help in...
Magnus: London market is 'rife with complacency'
Sir Laurie Magnus, chairman of Xchanging Ins-sure Services and investment banker, has slammed top Lo...
Airmic's Progress gets ten partners
Ten insurance firms are to become partners for Airmic's Progress through Partnerships initiative. Th...
Sectornet casts doubt over rival's cost-cut claims
Sectornet has criticised claims made by rival Sirius over the cost-saving potential of its flagship ...
ABI reopens debate
It was interesting to see the Association of British Insurers (ABI) reopen the debate on the way in ...
Ironing out the IT creases
IT case
Allianz broking pilot targets £1m in additional revenue
Allianz Cornhill's broker development manager, Lloyd Hanks has set a target of writing £1m new busin...
Come hell or high water
Disaster recovery
The seeds of doubt
The potential large-scale introduction of genetically modified crops has been beset by controversy, mainly focusing on the possible negative effect on the environment, but as Matt Warner explains, the main issue is who is going to insure the crops and…
ABI rolls out new plans for financial advice payments
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has put forward new proposals to reform the way in which f...
Research by Group 1 Software
Research by Group 1 Software, conducted among senior marketeers within the top 1,000 UK companies, h...
Oxygen aligns software
Start-up intermediary Oxygen has aligned software across the business units on a single system. It w...
Survey says reliability tops brokers IT wish list
Reliability is the number one priority for commercial brokers when investing in IT systems, accordin...
NFU Mutual eyes full business integration
NFU Mutual has signed up Harlosh, the insurance technology solutions provider, to consolidate its le...
InsurE-com rolls out application
InsurE-com has rolled out its commercial lines data capture and management application to major comm...
Soundbytes
How would you sum up the Insure2travel website in terms of its basic aim? We designed this website ...
Finsure looks to EDI in personal lines drive
Finsure is preparing to integrate with brokers' systems via EDI in a bid to grow its personal lines ...
A Guide - Life at the top
Lloyd's: Major Syndicates
Sirius flagship offering boasts £30k savings
Sirius is gambling all on outsourced data-management, which it claims will save the average broker £...