Commercial
Appointment at Davies Lavery.
Davies Lavery, the insurance law firm, has recruited Denny Payton from Eversheds' insurance practice...
H&R aims to corner motorbike market.
Aberdeen-based H&R Insurance Services this week vowed to become the UK's largest specialist motorcyc...
Heading for a fall?
In the current climate of economic uncertainty and hardening rates, provincial commercial lines brokers are in an ideal position to expand into credit insurance, argues Simon Threadgold.
MMA Insurance has launched online facilities.
Broker-only provider MMA Insurance has launched online quotation and document production facilities ...
Corresoft launches its product range for SMEs.
Document management software provider Corresoft this week launched its product range for SMEs. Unive...
Insurer set to fight credit-hire ruling.
Insurer Allianz Cornhill was expected to seek leave to appeal the Clark v Ardington decision in the ...
Capita enters strategic alliance with Room.
Business service provider Capita London Market Services has signed a strategic alliance with Room So...
Lloyd's vehicles in pile-up.
Listed Lloyd's vehicles took a hammering this week as six of the market's largest players posted com...
Peter Wood takes stake in Lloyd's.
Insurance entrepreneur Peter Wood, founder of Direct Line, has taken a stake in Lloyd's by investing...
Hill House Hammond acquires ML Bender Insurance Brokers.
Hill House Hammond has acquired Truro-based ML Bender Insurance Brokers, which was established in 19...
Out on your own.
Starting up your own business can be a risky undertaking if a well thought-out business plan is not in place. A few of the industry's successful entrepreneurs offer some helpful pointers on how to make those initial steps that bit easier. Lynn Rouse…
View from the Top - Robert Hiscox
Robert Hiscox, chairman, Hiscox The old wisdom is that the insurance market goes up the lift and do...
What the papers said this week.
Financial Times A proposed train safety system would cause more deaths than it would save by forc...
No time to waste in modernising broking.
The insurance industry has so far failed to work together to change the industry with the help of technology. Michael Collins says time is running out and the industry cannot afford to continue to fritter away money on needless administration costs.
Open + Direct in £111m MBO
Viridian Group has completed the sale of its Open + Direct Consumer Financial Services business to a ...
Signs to the cycle path.
New premium rating indices published by Lloyd's should help syndicates to measure and manage the ups and downs of the insurance cycle. Robert CB Miller reports.
Hiscox covers 'quake risk.
Hiscox Syndicates has bought a $33m catastrophe bond to protect syndicate 33 from exposure to earthq...
Aon reinsurance dispute hits Q1 result
Broking giant Aon has said it will make a lower than anticipated profit in the first quarter because ...
AssureWeb has integrated TEP Exchange.
Misys has incorporated the TEP Exchange for electronically trading endowment policies onto its Assur...
Brokers and insurers are both to blame over liability bombshells.
Lynn Rouse reports on last week's British Insurance Brokers Association annual conference, which was held in Manchester.
Chairman of Zurich Financial Services to resign.
Rolf Huppi, embattled chairman of Zurich Financial Services, is to resign as chairman following the ...
View from the Top - Duncan Boyle
Duncan Boyle, chief executive, Royal & Sun Alliance A great deal has already been said within these...
Dutch financial services group ING ...
Dutch financial services group ING last week conceded that job cuts are likely following the announc...
Fleets ahead.
UK businesses seem to be reluctant to invest in risk management strategies where their fleet cars are concerned. However, to ensure long-term savings, this kind of initiative is essential in the drive to keep productivity up and costs down, says Duncan O…