E-Trading
Appointment at Open GI
Open GI has promoted Jason Wheelhouse to national sales manager. Wheelhouse was corporate account ma...
Appointment at The Institute of Insurance Brokers
The Institute of Insurance Brokers has elected Phil Thorpe of technology, charity and the educationa...
Appointment at Aon
Aon has appointed Charles Willy as UK communications director. Willy has worked at Aon for over five...
Coface is to launch financial rating service
Credit management company Coface is to launch a financial rating service. It comes as draft regulati...
Acturis plans updates
Acturis has planned updates to its system for the month of January, which will aim to make it more a...
Allianz pushes web legal cover
Allianz Commercial has launched a new online legal protection service available to all Allianz small...
Insurance employees bemoan their bosses' resistance to work web use
A new survey has revealed a rift between employer and employee attitudes to internet and technology ...
Mark Underford's new role
Mark Underford, assistant technical manager at Groupama Insurances, has been appointed as the new ch...
Dual Corporate Risks targets SME businesses with new digital tool
Dual Corporate Risks will make its new management liability product available electronically in an e...
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Fear credit hire and repair claims 'may reach £1.2bn'
New figures suggest that credit hire and repair claims are projected to cost the insurance industry ...
Zurich Insurance Ireland to change its name
Zurich Financial Services Group has announced that Zurich Insurance Ireland, the group's Ireland-bas...
R K Harrison Holdings completes acquisition of Bowood Holdings
R K Harrison Holdings has completed the acquisition of Lloyd's broker Bowood Holdings with the assis...
Small broker focus - Keep in touch to stay in control
The recession cycle rolls out in three stages. In the first, there is a tendency to hope for the bes...
Third Force in £1.3bn boost
A review of the Third Force of the insurance industry by Insurance Age in a supplement this month ha...
Soundbytes
What is Secure-mail? Secure-mail is a simple plug-and-play device that encrypts and decrypts email,...
Octavia Information Systems helps expand capability of TAMIS
IT consultancy Octavia Information Systems has helped expand the capability of TAMIS, Travel and Med...
Marx Insurance switches provider
Liverpool-based Marx Insurance has switched its system provider from SSP to Open GI. The broker's ma...
The hottest insurance gossip
Some people, including the late comedian Bill Hicks, swear that anyone involved in marketing is inhe...
Pulling in niche trade
Once considered the preserve of the nerdy, caravanning is now cool and, as Ian Drewe explains, it's the sort of pursuit that falls neatly into leisure insurance schemes - one of the most untapped niche insurance markets
Motor insurance market expected to rise
Industry statistics have shown that the aggregator corner of the motor insurance market is expected ...
SMS messaging 'can help brokers save on costs'
SMS messaging could help brokers save on costs and enhance customer relations, according to telephon...
Aon warns of claims hotspots
Aon has warned companies to brace themselves for several claims hotspots with fraud on the increase coupled with spiraling legal claims.
Up to 700 jobs to go as Aon completes acquisition of Benfield
As much as 700 jobs will go as part of Aon's takeover of Benfield, Aon said in a statement.