Commercial
Two up, one down for Axa.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, the Axa subsidiary, has announced its interim results. Group operati...
Accountants liable for client's loss of retirement relief.
A taxpayer was the majority shareholder in a family company which carried on business alongside the ...
New business up 75%.
Income protection specialist Permanent Insurance has revealed a 75% increase in new business for the...
Chubb's check mate.
Chubb insurance company has teamed up with call centre specialist Checkmate to provide a new call ha...
Sharp PIN move.
Scottish Widows has implemented a personal identification number-based routing system to increase pr...
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill International.
Paul Maidment has been made national broker manager for Allianz Cornhill International. Previously h...
Power to the partnerships.
Unions are still not gaining favour in the insurance industry, but there are several progressive players, as Alex Broad finds out.
On the cards.
The Slovenian Health Insurance Institute has embraced the concept of selling healthcare using plasti...
GAB insists deal is on.
Reports that the takeover of GAB Robins by an American investment group has hit a hitch have been di...
The way forward.
Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor tells Marcus Alcock about the contents of his long-awaited consultation paper on managing agents and brokers.
Petrol station gutted.
A catalogue of freak disasters gutted a petrol station in the Welsh holiday village of Llanbedr. A t...
Cap Gemini launches 'Re tension'.
Information technology services and management consultancy Cap Gemini has launched 'Re tension', a b...
We are seiling ...
Eagle Star employees (left to right) Paul Hudson, Lee Ingram, (back row) and Gloria Munro, Nicky Fro...
Standard practises.
Standard Life Assurance has agreed a contract with DST International to extend the roll-out of AWD (...
Jobs don't have to go in mergers.
The article 'Merger Migraines' (PM Supplement, 29 July, p21) pinpoints some of the key issues arisin...
Starting as they mean to go on.
Claire Johnson reports on a first-of-its-kind seminar which thrashed out how insurers and recovery and restoration firms can work together to each others' benefit.
JLT bucks trend.
Lloyd's broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson has bucked the London Market trend with a 9% rise in interim p...
Good news and bad for NU.
Norwich Union's interim results were a mixed bag. The company reported a 37% growth in worldwide n...
Site knows its stuff on experts.
Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
Unethical' tactics spark wrath of AiiB.
The Association of Insurance Intermediaries and Brokers is stepping up its fight against "unethical"...
E-commerce warning.
UK insurers face being overtaken by foreign insurers in terms of e-commerce, leading industry figure...
Nat on track.
Natalie Fletcher of Grayside Ltd is the latest victor in the NIG Skandia 'Be a Winner with Trophy ca...
B&W investigates law reforms.
Actuary Bacon & Wood-row has been appointed by the Association of British Insurers to investigate th...
Gaining ground.
Premium finance is winning over more converts by the day, yet it is still a long way from the boom-time that its advocates are predicting. David Fanning finds out what its benefits are to intermediaries and their clients.