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Northern acquisition.
Leeds broker RP Hodson has bought financial services specialist Smith & Pinching (North). The newly-...
Ian Ritchie.
There are many 'basics' to take care of before brokers can re-open for business after the millennium festivities.
Howden restructures.
Following recent expansion, specialist broker Howden Spear Gulland has restructured to form Hyperion...
Drafting a new Touchline.
Groupama has stopped writing direct business through Touchline and has switched the facility over to...
Miller site rounds up the news.
International insurance broker Miller Insurance Group is posting news stories from over 40 different...
Alpha AIMs at £15m.
Alpha Accident Management Group is to float on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Ma...
Zurich offers under-25s better range of motor cover options.
Following its merger with Eagle Star, Zurich Insurance is expanding its underwriting criteria on mot...
Appointment at CGU.
Patrick Thiele has been made group director, development, at CGU. Mr Thiele, who worked for St Paul ...
PCS sets up surveyor network
Loss adjuster Property & Casualty Services has put together a team of health and safety surveyors to ...
RSA sponsors Stress Awareness day
Royal & SunAlliance is sponsoring National Stress Awareness Day (tomorrow) to help raise awarenesss o...
Lord Chancellor pleased with Woolf reforms
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine Of Lairg, has expressed his support for the Woolf reforms, saying he...
Norman commercial invasion
Norman Insurance is expanding its broker network ahead of a major rebranding exercise. The UK arm o...
RSA service centre.
Royal & SunAlliance has launched a new broker service centre for businesses with turnovers of up to ...
Appointment at Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risks.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Corporate Risks has appointed Alan Percival (above) to the position of region...
NIG Skandia produces broker guide to help plant inspection.
In a bid to help brokers in their handling of engineering inspection business, NIG Skandia has produ...
Two alliances expand operations.
The Broker Alliance has recruited Hull-based Rixon Matthews Appleyard as its sixth member following ...
Home comforts.
Lloyd's syndicates are now offering brokers and intermediaries a wide range of household, holiday home, travel and personal accident policies. Andrew Newman reports.
Terry Wellard.
Would a code of practice to regulate wholesale brokers be the best way to protect the introducer's business?
MBOs at Brockbank.
The Brockbank Group has signed agreements for management buy-outs of its two motor insurance busines...
Country life.
Farmers are having a hard time of it at the moment. Brokers that can win over their confidence and find them better and, where possible, cheaper cover, will be onto a winner, says David Murray Wells.
Iron Trades hammers out its fifth trade-specific policy.
Iron Trades has launched a package policy for the metal and machinery industry - its fifth trade-spe...
Doing the books.
While figure-work might seem a little staid, accountants face a wide range of risks. Simon Threadgold looks at the every expanding market for accountants' professional indemnity.
Crime and punishment.
Some underwriters used to take a tough moral stance on convicted drivers. Andrew Newman says the market is now very different.
WPA ups PMI stakes.
Western Provident Association is aiming to corner the private medical insurance market with its new ...