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Appointment at Safety Assessment Federation.
Alan Harris, engineering executive at Allianz Cornhill Engineering, has been elected chairman of the...
Sedgwick integration.
The integration of Sedgwick into the Marsh structure is not likely to be completed for another two y...
Holman adds value to HNW.
Holman Risk & Insurance Management is offering brokers a high net worth policy which boasts several ...
UK motor to suffer.
Bacon & Woodrow is forecasting that the UK motor market will suffer losses of around £1.2bn for 1998...
Assitalia UK is sponsoring exhibition.
Assitalia UK is sponsoring the first ever exhibition of the photographer Luigi Ghirri in this countr...
SVB's Fusion gives brokers control.
Lloyd's managing group SVB, has set up an Internet facility designed to give brokers increased acces...
COMMERCIAL BROKING - Mergers hit brokers hard.
The spate of insurer mergers has had a major impact on brokers. Professional Broking asked regional brokers whether they were happy with the post-merger service from insurers. Tim Collison reports.
Appointment at Town & Country Assistance.
Town & Country Assistance has promoted section head David Richardson to the role of training manager...
Exclusive - Octavian withdraws from high street.
Lloyd's motor syndicate Octavian, 1228, has withdrawn from traditional high-street broker business, ...
Report paints gloomy picture.
Standard & Poor's 1999 Insurance Market Profiles report has painted a gloomy picture of the UK provi...
Access all countries.
US-based Assurex International and Europe's Synergy have formed an alliance, creating what they clai...
Appointment at Crowe Insurance Group.
Crowe Insurance has made Paul Smith regional manager for Colchester. His role will encompass both...
Trading standards.
Business in the contracting sector is at last beginning to pick up, although insurance rates are not mirroring this improvement in performance yet, says David Fanning.
MIA - new travel policy keeps it in the family.
Specialist health insurance broker the Medical Insurance Agency (MIA) has launched a flexible annual...
Brokers get a say on insurance woes.
Brokers are often accused of moaning about the market. Over the last few years, several leading indu...
Worthy opponents.
Competition is fierce in the high net worth market and, with rates as low as they can go, insurers claim to be competing on service rather than price to attract customers, says Shona Cronin.
Appointment at Royal & SunAlliance.
Royal & SunAlliance's head of underwriting and risk management, Steve Wood, has been transferred to ...
Consumer champion.
Walter Merricks, the first Financial Services Ombudsman, talks to Tim Collison about how he plans to merge the eight current ombudsmen into one single super scheme.
Appointment at Allan Chapman & James.
Colchester-based Allan Chapman & James has made a string of new appointments. Chris Eyers joins a...
Exclusive - Ombudsman delay for brokers.
Under the proposals for new regulatory body the General Insurance Standards Council, brokers and int...
Access all markets.
Robert Beckett, chairman of the Beckett Group, tells Tim Collison how the group's international approach to placing risk has been one of the major factors in its success.
Exclusive - Peoples Choice looks to foreign insurers for panel.
Telebroker Peoples Choice is believed to be in discussions with one or more foreign insurers with a ...
RSA's new medical insurance cuts out fee cut off point.
Royal & SunAlliance has dispensed with the "customary and reasonable" cut-off point for specialist f...
Bennetts buys Graham.
Personal lines broker Bennetts Insurance has bought Graham Insurance Brokers of Gosport as part of i...