Insurer
'Quiet months' of summer
Despite being the 'quiet months' of summer, the movement in the broking market has been frenetic. Ho...
Floods take toll on Sheffield
The damage from the Yorkshire floods is likely to run into hundreds of millions of pounds in clear-u...
Castries "panic" comment shrugged off by insurers
Andrew Tjaardstra Axa group chairman and chief executive Henri de Castries has suggested that insur...
Smart and Cook acquires BA Insurance
As Professional Broking went to press, Axa-owned Smart and Cook was about to finalise the acquisitio...
Groupama buys into Bollington
Marcus Alcock Macclesfield-based commercial broker Bollington has sold a majority stake to Groupama...
Appointment at AEGIS London
AEGIS London has appointed Phil Lawson as non-marine property underwriter. Lawson joins from ACE, wh...
A very tempting option
Exit strategies
J&M buys taxi specialist
Epping-based J&M Insurance Services, which has a large taxi book, has acquired the business assets o...
A new wave
Consolidation
Axa boss confident in face of changing UK distributin
Michelle Worvell UK insurers that have not bought brokers to secure market distribution may have mi...
It's a crazy, crazy world
I cannot open a trade magazine or hold a conversation with a broker or insurer without thinking what...
Axa Insurance has appointed ..
Axa Insurance has appointed Ian Johnson as chief operating officer. Mr Johnson - who will report to ...
pollyc@incisivemedia.com - The hottest insurance gossip
Polly was delighted to spend a day at the races with Allianz recently. Dressed in an elegant frock a...
Only Insurance has revealed it is in ..
Only Insurance has revealed it is in the process of securing several underwriting deals with travel ...
UK floods reach over £500m for insured losses
Initial estimates by Risk Management Solutions (RMS), the provider of products and services for catastrophe risk management, suggest that insured losses from this week’s floods could exceed £500m.
Jelf confident in consolidation model
Despite making a small after tax loss for its interim results to March 31, Alex Alway, chief executi...
A change of tactics
Focus: Employers' liability
Labour needs a political history lesson
Gordon Brown is fixing his sights on reform of the Treasury to take away some of its power. However, a similar strategy has been tried before - and it failed
Professional Broking online poll and results
June online poll question: Are you expecting further consolidation in the broker software market th...
Front row seats
At a break-out session at the BIBA conference, or 'seminar session 3, stream 1', it was fascinating ...
NU warns over alarms
BIBA Conference
One in seven brokers "at risk of failing"
BIBA Conference
NetSolCQ and Field Solutions form partnership
NetSolCQ and Field Solutions have formed a strategic partnership provide software solutions and serv...
All part of the service
The debate surrounding the effectiveness of underwriting portfolio management has stepped up a pace following Norwich Union's decision to adopt this style. This month's Power Hour discussion touches on the benefits of portfolio management, its place in…