Commercial
Generali chairman voted out at AGM.
Insurer Generali ousted its chairman from power at its annual general meeting in Trieste. Antoine...
Hill on a roll.
Broker Warren Hill, which has established a bulkhead in middle England with the acquisition of Staff...
Real talk on virtual insurers.
Post Magazine, in conjunction with Policy Management Systems Corporation, last week hosted a debate on the challenges and opportunities of virtual insurance. Anthony Gould reports.
Chaplain lands Finsure top job.
NIG Skandia has appointed Paul Chaplain as the first full-time managing director of its broker premi...
Extreme close up.
A Datamonitor survey confirms the need for corporates to improve their client relationship, an aspect in which smaller companies are well versed. Anthony Gould reports.
Top marks.
Today, European insurers are vulnerable to those factors which saw banks' ratings decline, says Richard Willsher.
Insurers must wake up to retail threat.
Insurers have been told they should be "suffering migraines" over the threat of increased competitio...
Roadshow date.
The second in a series of roadshows hosted by the Association of Insurance Intermediaries will be he...
Football competition: who's in and who's out.
The teams left in the Post Magazine Charity Football Competition will take another step on the road ...
CILA fails members in favour of bosses.
We read the articles on the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters two weeks ago and then attended th...
New body for IFAs.
A new trade organisation for independent financial advisers was launched this week. The Associati...
Standard Life plea.
Standard Life has called for an easing of regulatory responsibility. Corporate services manager M...
Internet interest.
AIG Europe has reported that it has received "keen interest" from brokers towards its Internet insur...
WY Insurance is sponsoring a nationwide tribute tour.
Huddersfield broker WY Insurance is sponsoring a nationwide tribute tour to Frank Sinatra and the bi...
Choice lures the cream.
Employers seeking to recruit the cream of the country's workforce are to be given a helping hand by ...
Axa managers bag shares worth £4.5m.
Sun Life & Provincial Holdings, the Axa subsidiary, granted share options worth more than £4.5m at t...
Too many cooks.
The retail insurance market is hard to break into, underpriced and shows no signs of growth. So why do companies bother with it. David Fanning finds out.
Bakers bought.
Towergate Underwriting has acquired Cheltenham-based park home and caravan underwriting agency Baker...
Football Tournament.
The second round of matches in the Post Magazine Charity Football Tournament saw a couple of massive...
Devitt Insurance Services saw double.
Devitt Insurance Services saw double at the London East Training and Enterprise Council Blue Ribbon ...
Cornhill hits the Internet.
Cornhill has launched a website offering brokers and end-users immediate up-to-date information on i...
Central Fund to hit £800m under deal.
Lloyd's has entered into a five-year deal with six major insurers in a bid to boost the strength of ...
Getting a handle on IT.
Insurers may have woken up to the benefits of call centres, but many are not making the most of the technology. Jonathan Swift looks at the changes ringing through the sector.
RIMS voices its rate fears.
The good times for risk managers could soon be over, warned Jim Blinn, director of risk management c...