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Willis Commercial Network is doing "extremely well".
Willis is forging ahead with its plan to sign up 60 brokers to its Commercial Network, which it laun...
Up to speed.
New insurers are being attracted to the bus and coach sector by the hardening rates. However, Steve Banner questions how many will be there to stay.
Masterplan members get motor rate-matching.
Masterplan, Policy Master's marketing arm, is offering its members a rate-matching facility for priv...
Going forward together.
Martin Long, chief executive of Churchill Insurance, tells Tim Collison why he wanted to buy NIG and how the broker market company will figure in the group's expansion plans over the coming months.
Broker rating goes online.
In response to the imminent deregulation of the Lloyd's market, an online information service has be...
Thompson Rudd merger.
The Paul Thompson Insurance Group and the Malcolm Rudd Group have merged to form the Thompson Rudd G...
Stuart Alexander purchase.
Stuart Alexander has acquired the UK non-marine business portfolio of Alston Gayler. Barry Cook, Als...
An EL of a class.
Employers' liability insurers are starting to push through significant premium increases. With rising personal injury awards and medical inflation higher than RPI, Graeme Sutton says such rate increases are more than justified.
Market support for BIBA.
The Broker Network and Coversure have joined the British Insurance Brokers' Association in the bigge...
Employee Benefit Trusts - what a relief.
Q: We have heard that Employee Benefit Trusts are very tax efficient. Can you explain what they are, and how they work?
Calculating the value of insurance.
Q: We are restructuring our business and need to value our general insurance operation. How do we go about it?
Appointment at RL Davison.
Lloyd's broker RL Davison has appointed Joe Hantson to its motor fleet administration department. He...
Exclusive - GISC set to go live with no formal empowerment.
The General Insurance Standards Council is likely to go live on a voluntary basis, without any forma...
Lloyd's to axe 1100 jobs.
Lloyd's is to axe 1100 jobs over the next three years as part of chief executive Nick Prettejohn's m...
BIA 2000 - 28 June.
This month sees the initial call for entries for the first British Insurance Awards of the new centu...
Appointment at Crawford.
Crawford has made Jonathan Clark director of strategic operations development for the UK, Europe and...
Publicity-seeking Simon Burgess.
Publicity-seeking Simon Burgess, the managing director of GRIP who dreamed up alien abduction insura...
Generali/INA deal agreed.
Generali's £7.64bn takeover of INA, Assitalia's parent, has been cleared by the European Commission,...
Appointment at The Broker Network.
The Broker Network has appointed Neil Worsnop as partnership director. He has spent the last 34 y...
Pollution law hits firms.
Carlyle Insurance Brokers is warning businesses of the potential costs they may incur following rece...
End of the road.
Some in the uninsured loss recovery market believe that the days of the smaller provider are numbered. David Fanning looks at what is in store for this tough market.
NIG takes on motorbike book.
Allianz Cornhill will cease writing motorcycle risks from 1 March 2000. The insurer says it wants to...
MULRA raises ULR concerns.
The Motoring Uninsured Loss Recoveries Association has hit out against the implementation of a revis...
The firm behind the box office.
Allan Chapman & James Insurance Brokers tells Shona Cronin how the firm built up a loyal audience in the film and television sector.