British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba)
Zurich Municipal feels Biba’s wrath over anti-broker marketing
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) has hit out at Zurich over the content of a Zurich Municipal advert urging customers to “cut out the middle man”, Post’s sister title Insurance Age has revealed.
British Insurance Awards 2011: A position of trust
MARKETING INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR - WINNER – HISCOX INSURANCE COMPANY
Post Blog - Tales from the conference frontline
Anyone who has been through insurance conference season and lived to tell the tale knows exactly how much stamina it requires.
Post Blog: Tales from the conference frontline
Anyone who has been through insurance conference season and lived to tell the tale knows exactly how much stamina it requires.
Biba confirms Staddon exit at end of July
Peter Staddon will officially leave the British Insurance Brokers’ Association on 29 July, the trade body has confirmed.
Insurance & social media: To tweet or not to tweet
The insurance industry has struggled in its early attempts to adopt social media, due to its staid reputation. Sam Barrett warns that being slow to capitalise on the benefits it can bring means the industry is missing a trick.
Staddon to leave Biba
The British Insurance Brokers' Association's longstanding head of technical services Peter Staddon is set to depart the trade body. Mr Staddon began his insurance career in 1971 as a broker and joined Biba in 1996 to establish the technical services…
TSC re-opens premiums inquiry as referral fee furore escalates
The chair of the Transport Select Committee has told Post that motor insurers will be called back to parliament for further questioning following her decision to re-open its inquiry into the rising cost of motor insurance.
Tackling fraud - Roundtable: The time for action is now
With new counter-fraud tools coming onstream, Post gathered a group of experts to assess whether these will be enough to outweigh expected reductions in police resource when fighting this crime. Chinwe Akomah reports.
Broker focus - Biba/IIB merger: Let's get together
Following the initial flurry of excitement when Biba and the IIB announced they were in merger talks, Chinwe Akomah talks to the market about their hopes and concerns for new a single body.
Staddon set for Biba departure
Peter Staddon, head of technical services at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association is set to depart at the end of the month, according to Insurance Age.
Insurance Fraud Register given the ICO green light
The Information Commissioner's Office has given the green light to the definition of fraud that would be used by the insurance industry if the Insurance Fraud Register is given the go ahead this week.
Incisive Media cleans up at the Biba Awards 2011
Journalists from Post and sister title Insurance Age topped three categories and received four highly commended awards at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s 2011 journalist of the year awards.
Biba welcomes new warning letters for uninsured drivers
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has welcomed the new warning letters that will be sent from today to registered keepers identified as having an uninsured vehicle under the new Continuous Insurance Enforcement Law.
Spotlight on Reputation: Stop whispering,startshouting
Insurance brokers were shocked by research that showed a large proportion of people did not trust them. Rachel Gordon looks at the reaction, their relationships with clients and why brokers should start being more vocal about their value.
Brokers warned networks no panacea
Moves by brokers to mitigate the effect of economic uncertainty by joining networks is likely to increase over the next few years.
Biba presents petition on fees to MP
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has presented a petition of nearly 7000 member signatures to Jonathan Evans MP calling for the government to accelerate the Financial Services Authority’s review of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme…
Biba backs regulator's guidance for aggregators
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has welcomed the Financial Services Authority proposed guidance for comparison websites, which it said has addressed its own concerns about consumer detriment.
Exercise Watermark set for insurer-specific rerun
The Association of British Insurers has confirmed Exercise Watermark, the government's emergency flood scenario run nationwide in March, will be re-enacted specifically for the insurance industry in August, in conjunction with the Cabinet Office.
Biba welcomes MIB TV campaign on uninsured driving
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has welcomed the television campaign due to be launched by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau to tackle uninsured driving.
Schemes: Scheming for success
Schemes business requires significant investment to make it work and underwriters are not prepared to tolerate poor profitability. But, as Jane Bernstein reports, the benefits are many and it remains attractive to brokers.
Biba 2011: Brokers back Biba and IIB as merger revealed
Moves by the British Insurance Brokers' Association and the Institute of Insurance Brokers to merge have been overwhelmingly backed by brokers.
Editor's comment: All action, no talk
Mergers & acquisitions have definitely dominated the insurance headlines this week. Nothing unusual in that — except, for once, it's been more a case of all action and little talk, rather than the reverse, as is so typically the case. But it also remains…