Insurer
New broking venture spins out of Towergate
John McLaren-Stewart, the founder of Alliance Corporate Risk Management, has set up BrightStar Risk Solutions, following a period at Towergate.
Amlin nabs Zurich property team
Amlin has expanded its UK property team with the arrival of a team of five underwriters from Zurich.
Junction renews Post Office deal
Junction has entered into a five-year contract with Post Office Financial Services to provide home and motor insurance.
Insurance Race Day 2009 is runaway success with more than 400 attending
The insurance industry once again took full advantage of the corporate hospitality at Kempton Park o...
Appointment at Zenith Insurance
Zenith Insurance has taken on Peter Austin as that company's new chief executive officer. ...
PB Sentiment Survey May 2009
PB Sentiment Survey
Put right others' PPI wrongs
For over four years, payment protection insurance providers have been scrutinised, berated and accus...
Devitt and Lawton - Upping the ante
Andrew Tjaardstra talks to Aaron Devitt and Mike Lawton, who are the front line in driving RSA's commercial UK strategy as it adopts a more aggressive approach to sales to increase its broker activity
250 new jobs at Swinton
Swinton plans to create more than 250 new jobs in its Norwich-based call centre by the end of 2009. ...
Finger points at brokers as CHOs face potential collapse
The credit hire industry could be facing a tumultuous year with the threat of insolvency for some fi...
Up close and personal
A team player with complete belief in his staff, John O'Roarke talks to Michelle Worvell about how the general insurance market has changed, regrets he has had along the way and his vision to bring LV into the public spotlight
A trip down memory lane
Tony Cornell takes a retrospective look at how the insurance industry - particularly the broking sector - has changed over the past 30 years, since Thatcher's reign and, of course, the launch of Insurance Age
Ecclesiastical admits expansion plans but denies Lycetts rumour
Ecclesiastical has denied market rumours that it aims to take over broker Lycetts after it became a ...
Plumetting income-rate fastest in more than 25 years
The UK financial services sector has been hit by record drops in income levels while business volume...
Report urges insurance industry to crack down on speed culprits
The insurance industry must tackle the endemic culture of speeding in the UK by treating offenders w...
RSA job slash is Bristol's biggest recession blow
RSA has announced that it will close its Bristol office by 2012 as part of an efficiency drive to sa...
Decreasing rates could put future at risk
Decreasing rates on private medical insurance (PMI) policies could put the long-term future of the s...
Crime soars in desperate times
Incidents of arson in business premises spiked 23% last year, marking a rise in crime that is likely...
Ninth place for Giles
Giles has made ninth place in The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoppers Profit Track 100. Earlier this...
Fortis broker partners take part in mini-fleet product trial
Fortis Insurance has begun piloting a new mini-fleet product among 60 of its broker partners as part...
Arc model offers brokers greater revenue opportunity and control
Arc Legal Assistance has developed a non-fault motor legal expenses product to enable brokers to max...
Mid-corporate sector bears cost burden of poor communication
A recent study has found that a lack of co-operation between insurers and brokers in the mid-corpora...
Axa comes bottom of the insurer league in IIB service level survey
Axa has ranked last in the Institute of Insurance Brokers' (IIB) service level poll - falling margin...
NIG proposes office closures and reducing headcount by 130
NIG has announced a proposal to reduce the number of offices it has from 18 to 10, with a net reduct...