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Branching out.
Intense competition is forcing some brokers to branch out into sectors they have previously steered clear of. Some are growing their retail operations in the face of declining capacity, while others are moving into wholesaling. Rachel Gordon gets to the…
Zurich to cut costs with Aurora deal.
Zurich Insurance looks set to sign a contract worth up to £5.5m with software development and servic...
Appointment at St Paul.
David Turner has joined St Paul International Insurance as financial reporting manager. He moves ove...
Irish motor losses may see exits.
Double-figure losses in the Irish motor market could force several insurers to pull out of the secto...
Legal departure.
Law firm Manches has lost its last remaining insurance partner in London. Martin Benson, a partner a...
Capita merges motor units.
Business process outsourcing group Capita is set to launch a new motor insurance services division in...
Poor investment returns hit Cox
Lloyd's insurer Cox has posted a loss of £11m for the first six months of the year, compared to a £0....
Taiwan typhoon.
The Taiwan Stock Exchange claims publicly-listed companies have reported a total of T$1.44bn (£28m) ...
What the Papers Say.
Daily Mail Claire Roe stands to whistle up a £100,000 fortune - if she loses her looks. Claire, 2...
Made to measure.
Before-the-event insurance is not the answer for all compensation claims, as the Court of Appeal decision in Sawar v Alam illustrated, but Mike Harvey believes the ruling shows that BTE has a strong role to play and that it is up to insurers to assess…
Audatex in Cox deal.
Cox Claims Management has appointed Audatex as the provider of its damage repair estimating and clai...
Winterthur fined.
Winterthur Life was this week fined £500,000 by the Financial Services Authority. The fines were for...
CRM sees slow uptake among insurers.
Martin Hess, director of financial services, Compaq, said the insurance industry had been slower tha...
WTC clearance claim restrictions.
Some of the issues raised following this month's terrorist attacks on the US will pose significant c...
Rubicon system.
Newly-established virtual insurer Rubicon has chosen the InsureConX system to under-pin its IT proce...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny has been trying to deal with the emotional impact of the US terrorist attacks on 11 September ...
RSA to expand with NZ purchase.
Royal & Sun Alliance is to expand its Australasian operations by acquiring AMP's New Zealand general...
A site with prospects.
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
ATE test cases.
Ronnie Henderson, chief executive of personal injury specialist Claims Direct, last week confirmed i...
New research post.
Ecclesiastical has created the new post of intermediary research analyst, focusing on research withi...
Appointment at Lexicon.
Lexicon, the hi-tech IT service provider, has taken on Nicola Ridler, who joins the company as corpo...
Appointment at Acturis.
Simon Ronaldson has joined Acturis, the provider of web-based technology platforms for brokers, as s...
The great escape.
Insurers are avoiding tackling the simple solutions to data-capture problems says James Sharp, yet these would provide brokers with a welcome escape from the task of re-keying the same information several times to get insurance quotes.
Making the right connections.
The greater speed and communication e-systems promise to bring to the claims handling arena could be invaluable. But while e-claims is becoming a more realistic option, insurers seem unagreed on how to handle it and where it is all leading, says David…