E-Trading
MIB and First Assist to target uninsured losses
The Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) has teamed up with First Assist in launching a legal expenses schem...
Soundbytes
What does the imarket proposition offer the broker? Imarket is a portal facilitating greater electr...
HSBC launches on-line credit for SMEs
HSBC Insurance Brokers has touted itself as the first broker in the UK to launch a fully interactive...
Rubicon Inspections introduces web-based system
Rubicon Inspections, which provides physical and desk-based engineering services to a number of insu...
Risk perspectives - Arsonists need your help - don't oblige
Over the past 10 years, there have been around 2.4m arson attacks resulting in 32,000 injuries and 1...
Allianz expects other insurers to opt for India
Allianz Cornhill has insisted that brokers will not notice any difference when it switches some of i...
Hammond Frey adopts new ASP version of insureE.tam
Hammond Frey has become one of the first brokers in the UK to sign up to the updated ASP version of ...
Intermap Technologies completes map
Intermap Technologies has completed its NEXTMap Britain landscape map, after capturing terrain data ...
Chaucer Live goes live
Chaucer Insurance has gone live with claims outcome adviser (COA) from Insurance Services Office (IS...
Insurance Age website is now live
The Insurance Age website, www.insuranceage.com, is now live. The website is full of up-to-date info...
Chaucer Insurance goes live
Chaucer Insurance has gone live with ISO's Claims Outcome Advisor, to support its personal injury cl...
MCE creates new positions for HHH staff affected by redundancies
In response to the closure of Hill House Hammond's (HHH) 150-seat call centre in Northampton, Northa...
The Exchange launches Exweb Broker
The Exchange has launched Exweb Broker, a portal service designed for intermediaries and brokers sel...
Web portal Private Healthcare relaunches
Web portal Private Healthcare has relaunched, offering a range of information on treatment, health a...
Misys plans to work with insurers on imarket initiative
Misys has announced plans to work with insurers on the imarket industry initiative, launched last mo...
A protective measure
Motor Insurers' Bureau
QBE picks up Ensign's Lloyd's motor arm
QBE Lloyd's subsidiary Limit has signed heads of agreement to acquire the Ensign motor business which was previously part of Limit prior to its purchase by QBE in August 2000.
Allianz Cornhill to switch 400 UK jobs to India
Allianz Cornhill plans to move 400 UK jobs to India by the end of 2005 in a move to reduce its cost base. The company outlined its plans to staff this morning.
MCE targets threatened HHH staff
Broker MCE is targeting staff at Hill House Hammond’s (HHH) 150 seat call centre in Northampton which has been earmarked for closure.
Hill House Hammond to close contact centre
National insurance broker Hill House Hammond is set to close its Northampton contact centre putting 150 jobs at risk.
Regional brokers set to benefit from new Catlin start-up
Catlin Insurance, the Bermuda insurance underwriting subsidiary of Catlin Group, has applied to the UK Financial Services Authority for approval to establish a UK branch Office. The subsidiary will be managed by Andreas Loucaides, chief executive, and…
Hanover Park parent to float
Commercial broker Hanover Park's parent company Erinaceous Group plans to raise approximately £10m through a placing of ordinary shares and is seeking admission to trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Insurance sex discrimination proposal given EC green light
Proposal now set to be put before European Parliament and Council of Ministers
Electric avenues
Though businesses are increasingly reliant on computers and communications, the electronics industry has shifted East. This is leaving little for the UK, says Paula Evans