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Addressing future challenges.
Cardiff will be the venue for next month's BIIBA annual conference. Shona Cronin looks at what is in store during this three-day seminar-lead event tackling future challenges in the broker market.
Hodson expands further.
The RP Hodson Group is continuing its expansion with a merger between its financial services divisio...
Rags to riches.
Stuart Alexander has seen massive expansion since it was set up in a small office in Battersea in 1993. Alex Shead and Stuart Reid tell Tim Collison how it proved the sceptics wrong.
Appointment at D Woodruff & Others.
John Cross has joined Syndicate 1236, D Woodruff & Others as liability underwriter. He will be respo...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Devitt Insurance Services has made Alex Minajew (above) its new business development manager. He is ...
New HHH call centre.
Hill House Hammond has launched Business Insurance Direct, a commercial lines call centre in Bournem...
Raising money for Comic Relief.
Overheard has been amused to learn of all the weird and wonderful things the insurance industry did ...
NCD protection for Cornhill motorbike.
Cornhill Insurance has added a no-claims discount protection to its motorbike policy, aimed at exper...
Future of SIF could rest on postal ballot.
Solicitors across the country will have to wait until 12 May to hear the results of a postal ballot ...
Appointment at Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies.
Agricultural Insurance Underwriting Agencies has appointed John Agnew (above) as area manager for Sc...
Crowe Insurance provides direct access to bus & coach policies.
Crowe Insurance has set up a new facility to provide provincial brokers with direct access to its bu...
CSC assumes control of Agency Manager.
CSC Financial Services has taken over operational and management responsibility for Agency Manager a...
David Worsfold.
The Financial Services & Markets Bill is the most important piece of financial sector legislation for years, but is the committee appointed to scrutinise it up to the job?
ABI urges awareness.
The Association of British Insurers has launched a drive to improve customer awareness about extende...
Appointment at Crowe Syndicate 963.
Crowe Syndicate 963, part of Lloyd's insurer Crowe Insurance Group, has appointed Guy Beechey (above...
TIFCO celebrates launch of new broker initiative.
Premium finance provider TIFCO celebrated the launch of a new broker initiative last month with a ga...
Appointment at Devitt Insurance Services.
Tony Chapman has been appointed director of finance at Devitt Insurance Services. He joins from J K ...
RSA makes radical changes to improve services.
Royal & SunAlliance is undertaking major structural changes throughout its UK commercial insurance b...
The bigger picture.
If you are about to acquire a brokerage, you must assess how it will fit in with your own business. The best place to begin is an investigation of what it could mean for staff, says Jennifer Jarrett.
Is a merger really on the cards?
More than one trade body representing the same market simply does not make sense. It means the membe...
Stick to timetables or face fines.
The Woolf reforms to civil litigation will impose strict timetables on claims handling. Shona Cronin says brokers must have the right systems in place to avoid heavy fines.
BUPA makes travel cover its business.
BUPA Travel Services has launched a range of business travel products. The most comprehensive of ...
Old values lost as GRE for sale.
Can you find me an insurance company that does not have a Chartered Accountant as its chief executiv...
Guarding electrical goods.
Guardian Insurance is supporting a crime prevention initiative aimed at reducing the trade in stolen...