Schemes
Products: Oxygen launches cover for home-working therapists
Oxygen Insurance Brokers has launched an exclusive home insurance scheme for psychological professionals in the UK who see clients at home.
Product roundup: MMA reveals home truths about retendering
MMA’s research into brokers and schemes makes for interesting reading, revealing as it does that brokers’ main reason for changing the holding insurer of a scheme is the promise of more commission. The study also reveals that the most frequent time to…
Products: UK General broadens tradesman product
UK General has been celebrating the signing of a new capacity deal with MMA to broaden its tradesman’s liability offering. The development is the latest step in the company’s strategy of growing its commercial product set following its capacity deal in…
Products: Central Insurance offers new charity policy
Central Insurance has joined forces with Hiscox to launch a new charity policy. It is the first tie-up between the Aberdeen-based broker and the specialist insurer in a move the two claimed was designed to meet the entire spectrum of insurance needs for…
Products: Focus groups lead Exeter Family Friendly to PMI plan
Exeter Family Friendly has unveiled the fruits of its series of focus groups with private medical insurance (PMI) intermediaries dating back to 2010 – a new modular PMI plan named Health Choices for Me.
Products: Arbiters of etiquette launch HNW product
A new player has entered the high net worth sector with the launch of Debrett’s Prestige Insurance providing comprehensive buildings and contents cover “for discerning home owners”.
How to… move a scheme
▶ Brokers have long regarded schemes as an opportunity to mine a niche for the benefit of their business. However, once they have taken the time to investigate a market, pull together the product and persuade an insurer to work together in a partnership,…
Bluefin looks within for schemes head
Bluefin has appointed Liz Johnson to head of Newmarket Underwriting.
F&R Associates to heat up market with new scheme
UK General has signed a new schemes deal with Grantham-based insurance broker F&R associates to cover home emergency for oil-fired central heating systems.
MMA deal leads to scheme option for UK General brokers
UK General has signed an extension to its capacity deal with MMA to broaden the terms of its tradesman’s liability offering.
What’s the Big Idea?
In May this year, Insurance Age teamed up with Axa Personal Lines to launch the Big Idea at Biba 2011. Broker entrants from across the UK submitted 100 words detailing what their Big Idea was and those that held the most promise have been asked to submit…
Products roundup: Blanc divorces simple from complex at Axa
Amanda Blanc’s long-awaited strategy for Axa Commercial is unveiled this month and she is confident that it is what brokers want and need from an insurer. The division of simple and complex risks certainly seems to make sense and brokers may welcome the…
Law Society and Prime Professions join forces to help ARP firms
The Law Society has announced it will again offer a scheme to assist law firms who are experiencing difficulty securing professional indemnity (PI) renewal terms.
Brokers want service and commission for their schemes
Half of all UK brokers are managing various types of schemes and they want high commissions to keep it with one provider, according to a study.
Schemes head to leave Arista
Arista has confirmed that head of schemes Simon Henderson is to leave the company.
Oxygen develops niche home insurance scheme
Oxygen Insurance Brokers has launched a home insurance scheme offering tailored insurance cover for psychological professionals in the UK who see clients at home.
Amlin teams up with BJP to launch GP scheme
Amlin UK, in conjunction with insurance broker BJP, has launched a new scheme dedicated to providing Employers’ and Public Liability (PL) cover to GP surgeries in the UK.
Bluefin appoints sport specialist
Bluefin Insurance Services has appointed Richard Cliffe as divisional director of Bluefin Sport.
Power hour: In the grand scheme of things
The industry may not always agree on what constitutes a scheme, but they could hold the secret of future success for brokers, reports Liz McMahon
Rural targets 5% market share with two new schemes
Rural Insurance has launched delegated authority schemes for two Northern Ireland brokers, including Autoline Insurance Group.
Products: Groupama claims a first with fully online commercial combined product
Groupama has labelled its new product, Optima Business Plus, the market’s first fully online, multi-section commercial combined product.
Products: Aviva returns to telematics with motor fleet product
Aviva has announced its partial re-entry into the telematics arena with a new motor fleet offering.
Products: CBG brews up scheme for drinks makers
CBG has launched an insurance scheme to meet the specialist needs of the commercial brewery industry.
Products: Insurers ready for Olympic opportunity
As London 2012 fast approaches, insurers are looking towards how they can capitalise on the influx of tourists flooding London for the Olympics.