Commercial
Fasten your seatbelts.
As the numbers of passengers, flights and accidents increase, Eric Alexander considers the higher risks that share the ride with more premiums.
ERC goes online.
ERC Frankona, the European operation of Employers Re, is offering reinsurance online through its new...
Tesco to roll out cut-price policies
Supermarket and petrol retailer Tesco is to begin offering car insurance from 8 March after a success...
Corporate killing warning
A leading underwriter has warned that insurers will not pay fines for so-called corporate killing con...
JLT's profits up
Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT), the UK-based broker, has reported steady growth for 1999 with a 9% rise...
Exclusive - Cornhill switches on to TV market.
Cornhill Direct has signed an agreement to sell a range of insurance products on Open, the leading p...
What CGNU hopes to gain.
CGU and Norwich Union believe a merger will yield several business opportunities - especially on the...
Appointment at Warren Hill.
John Shill has been appointed as Warren Hill's south east regional manager. Mr Shill, who was pre...
Mark one salesman.
Financial advisor Mark Bingham (left) of Millfield Partnership, Slough, has been named as "sales pro...
Penny Black's insurance week.
The often baffling world of fund management was made much clearer in an address last week by Terence...
Size doesn't matter.
A new alliance believes small-to-medium-sized firms are poorly-served when it comes to broking servi...
Traditional insurers take on virtual rivals.
Internet firms are eating into the £172bn annual US insurance market as traditional players spend mi...
Marks for effort.
Rafael Villareal looks at the German insurance industry and asks whether its non-life insurers are buying their way out of liberalisation's downside.
How to use clicks and bricks to add value.
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Baltic plan meeting.
The Corporation of London was due to meet yesterday over Swiss Re's plans for a 180m high office bui...
Slow moves at Axa.
Axa Re's likely merger with Axa Global Risks appears to have run into difficulties. Despite an annou...
ASC's new digital recording device.
Call centre managers are now able to record up to 65,000 separate conversations on a single hard dis...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Several new staff have joined Property & Casualty Services. Four new liability adjusters are Mark Ol...
Football competition winners.
John Smith is the third winner in the Avon Insurance Combination Football competition. An insuran...
Union City blues hit shares.
The stock market has reacted disapprovingly to the proposed merger of CGU and Norwich Union, wiping ...
Open season.
Post Magazine analyses the implications of the CGU and NU merger for both firms' staff, the stock market and the global insurance industry.
Wood's forecast.
Peter Wood (above) the founder of Direct Line who has been hired by Halifax to launch an Internet-ba...
Flasher with nothing worth looking at.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
JLT to focus on the Internet
Broker Jardine Lloyd Thomson said it expects its e-commerce strategy to play a major part in its deve...