Schemes
How to make a scheme work for you
UK General schemes and sales director John Bibby advises brokers on how to make their mark in the schemes space.
Markel goes direct but promises brokers e-trade option
Markel UK, the retail division of Markel International, has launched a direct commercial offering.
MMA launches scheme team
Broker-only insurer MMA has formed a dedicated schemes team designed to build on the 20% growth of commercial schemes it experienced in 2010.
Products/schemes: How to… unlock the profit in add-ons
Many industries rely upon ancillary income to generate their profit. Low cost airlines, unable to deliver margin from their core products, instead make their money on hotels, hire cars, or travel insurance. In the motor trade, new car sales deliver low…
Products: Lord rises to security challenge
Conservative peer Lord Sheikh’s new broker and underwriting agent Macmillan Sheikh has launched its first scheme for the security industry.
Products: WeatherBrokers in deal with Kettley
WeatherBrokers.com has teamed up with ex-BBC presenter John Kettley to launch an insurance scheme designed to compensate companies and institutions when the ‘wrong’ kind of weather hits.
Products: Vets4pets tie-up for NCI pet policy
Scheme insurance specialist NCI Insurance Services has partnered with veterinary group Vets4Pets to launch a pet insurance policy to customers throughout the UK.
Schemes: Ecclesiastical and CBG see specialism as their future
Poor results have led both an insurer and broker to seek solace in the schemes market.
Management – Employment law: know their rights
With a host of changes to employment law coming into effect, employers need to ensure they are up to date with their legal responsibilities, says Peter Done.
Is 2011 set to be the year of the start-up or the consolidator?
The news that Towergate had lost a pre-action disclosure application in the High Court and been ordered to pay £17,000 in costs to Lorica Insurance Brokers came shortly after the announcement that the consolidator’s deal with Advent had created a £90m…
Cancer u-turn reveals division in PMI
Bupa’s u-turn on capping cancer cover for its corporate schemes has exposed how fragmented the private medical insurance (PMI) industry is in its approach to the disease.
Bupa 'first' claim met with scepticism
Rival private medical insurance providers have expressed surprise at Bupa’s claim to have secured an industry first in its cancer cover limits.
Stride breaks into commercial market
Stride expanded into the commercial insurance market with the immediate appointment of Sally McIntosh to head up a new dedicated commercial insurance unit.
New software house launches platform for brokers
Wanna Insure has launched a end-to-end software platform which it claims reduces the development costs and implementation time for products inherent in legacy software house solutions.
Ecclesiastical exits standard household market
Ecclesiastical has announced it is to run off its standard household business by July 2012.
Macmillan Sheikh launches security industry scheme
Macmillan Sheikh has launched its first scheme to provide a broad range of insurances to the security industry.
The all new Insurance Age hits the broking market
Insurance Age relaunches with a fresh new look featuring a round table with some of the biggest names in the industry as they look to reshape the market for the future
Products/schemes: Bovis rolls out Subguard in EU
Bovis Lend Lease UK has signed up to Subguard, a risk management product from Zurich Global Corporate UK and JLT Specialty, which it is now rolling out in the EU and UK construction market.
Lord Sheikh returns to broker market
Conservative peer Lord Sheikh has launched insurance broker and underwriting agent Macmillan Sheikh.
Schemes news: Deposit scheme attracts agents
A tenancy deposit scheme backed by brokers Hamilton Fraser Insurance Services has seen a sharp increase in the number of protections taken out by letting agents.
Health news: MCD trust fund scheme offers brokers alternative route into PMI
Medical Care Direct (MCD), part of the Skipton Group, has launched a scheme which offers brokers an alternative path into the private medial insurance (PMI) sector.
Reportage - Environmental liability: Caring for the environment
As local authorities begin to grasp the new Environmental Damage Regulations, the number of cases ending in legal action looks set to rise. Liz McMahon clarifies how brokers operating in the agricultural sector can protect themselves and their clients.
Editor's comment - February 2011
As you are no doubt aware from this month's cover story, brokers are facing another year of heavy, heavy levies from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
Schemes news: 'Smart scheme' to double Gent & Craig's GWP for dental policies
Northern Ireland broker Gent & Craig Insurances has boosted its presence in dental surgery insurance following the creation of a 'smart scheme' by specialist insurer UK General.