Archived Insurance News from February 2008
Published: 07/02/2008
Insurance intermediary Towergate has increased its power by buying up another firm of brokers.It has swallowed Kent-based Woodgate and Partners, a general commercial and financial services broker, whi...
Read More: More power for Tower' >Published: 07/02/2008
India is facing a potentially chronic shortage of suitably qualified insurance staff.Peter Dunphy, chief executive of recruitment consultants Darwin Rhodes Group, speaking at an Actuaries conference i...
Read More: India facing insurance staff shortage >Published: 07/02/2008
The Chartered Insurance Institute and insurer Scottish Widows are to link-up to produce a 'professionalism package'.The CII is setting up, in collaboration with the insurer, extensive learning materia...
Read More: CII and Scottish Widows link-up >Published: 07/02/2008
Insurance giant Legal & General's umbrella has just opened wider with the announcement that Nationwide Building Society is to sell its products.As part of the "strategic agreement", L&am...
Read More: L&G's umbrella getting bigger >Published: 07/02/2008
Customers of Engage Mutual are more willing to pay into their Child Trust Fund (CTF) by monthly direct debit because of lower minimum top-up levels of £5.That is the reason being cited by the ins...
Read More: Higher take-up for engage customers >Published: 05/02/2008
Paul Kurgo has quit Australian based insurer QBE to join Liberty International Underwriters (LIU).He will head up the commercial UK and Ireland part of the European organisation, focusing mainly on ma...
Read More: Kurgo joins the Liberty fraternity >Published: 05/02/2008
So-called specialist insurers are not always cheaper for older drivers and female motorists.Research undertaken by price comparison website moneysupermarket.com shows ordinary providers can sometimes ...
Read More: Specialist insurers not always cheaper >Published: 04/02/2008
UK-based general and reinsurance group Brit Insurance Holdings has announced a four-year partnership with the Design Museum.An integral part of the collaboration will be the yearly Brit Insurance Desi...
Read More: Brit insurance announces design partnership >Published: 04/02/2008
Cost-conscious drivers could put the brakes on insurance premiums by shopping around for the best deals.Price comparison website MoneyExpert.com estimates that motorists could cut their bill by an ave...
Read More: Drivers could put brakes on insurance >Published: 01/02/2008
Two million drivers are risking invalidating their car insurance by not wearing a seatbelt.Pollster YouGov has undertaken research, which shows that although 25 years has passed since the introduction...
Read More: Two million risk invalidating insurance >