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When size matters.
Insuring small businesses can be time consuming and is not always profitable. However, brokers and intermediaries are seeing the value of using new technology to write the business and increase efficiency, says Simon Threadgold.
Profits up in general insurance
Profitability has risen sharply in the general insurance market as a whole, but has fallen in broking...
Insurance employment levels up but not away
The insurance sector is actively recruiting staff, but its growth is still below the UK average, acco...
St Paul throws in partnership protection
St Paul is offering free partnership protection for solicitors' firms with two to 10 partners, as par...
Brokers take to the skies with aeroinsure.com
The British Aviation Insurance Group (BAIG) is targetting regional brokers with the launch of the fir...
HSBC Select expands its call centre operations
Insurance broker HSBC Select has opened a new call centre in Trentham Lakes, Stoke-on-Trent in respon...
Ockham to transfer more business to HighCo
Ockham Holdings is seeking to raise enough capital to enable it to transfer all of its motor insuranc...
Towergate buys Stafford Knight
Towergate Underwriting Group has bought Lloyd's broker Stafford Knight. The acquisition will be Tower...
RIAS go online with Inspop
Online over-50s are being targetted by specialist broker the Retirement Insurance Advisory Service (R...
Excellence recognised at best ever awards
Excellence in the insurance industry was celebrated last night at the biggest ever British Insurance ...
Insurance exams made easy
CII Training Technology has developed its multimedia package, aimed at people studying for the Charte...
Insurers urged to pay bonuses to high-fliers
Insurance salaries are now so close to investment banking levels that insurers should look to profit-...
CGU provides good news for football fans
CGU has provided a ray of light in a miserable week for football by buying Direct Club. The main-play...
Brokers eager to go online
In its recent survey, the legal expenses insurer DAS found most brokers are ready to trade online. ...
Edgar Hamilton and FE Wright to merge
Lloyd's brokers Edgar Hamilton and FE Wright are to merge, following the acquisition of FE Wright fro...
More acquisitions at Alan Boswell
Expanding East Anglian broker Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers has bought Norfolk-based intermediary In...
Chubb sets up strategic development unit
Mirroring the activities of its US parent, Chubb Europe has set up a strategic development unit to re...
DAS to underwrite CIS legal expenses cover
DAS has won a contract to underwrite legal expenses insurance for CIS household contents policy holde...
RapidInsure launches office policy
Phil Rosen, commercial development and marketing manager at Cornhill Insurance, has predicted that th...
Churchill joins AA panel
Churchill Insurance has made a further move into the intermediary market by becoming a member of AA I...
AIIB accuses Sunday Times of promoting fraud
The Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers has accused The Sunday Times of encouraging i...
Part-time law may cut jobs.
Abbey Legal Protection is warning that new legislation designed to give part-time workers the same e...
Safe haven.
With the threat of burglary a very real consideration for every household in the UK, there are many precautions that property owners can take - without turning their homes into fortresses. And brokers are always happy to give advice.
IIB planning to launch IBRC Ltd in May 2001.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers is gearing up to go live with its self-regulatory professional bo...