Insurance Archive

  • Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    Boat insurance – Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans

    A Brief History of Insurance: Part 2 by Kris Oldland A brief history of Boat Insurance: Part Two: Rhodian General Average and Athenan Maritime Loans: OK, so in the first article in this series we discovered that whilst those amazing Chinese chaps were out inventing...

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  • Small Business Commercial Insurance Sector grows rapidly in 2010

    Small Business Commercial Insurance Sector grows rapidly in 2010

    SME Commercial Insurance Sector sees promise in 2010 By: Dave Healey After a year which has been tricky for some and catastrophic for others we could be forgiven for looking towards 2010 with some trepidation and in some of the more morose corners of industry...

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  • How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already named the austerity budget,...

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  • Insurance Leads The Way To Global Economic Recovery

    Insurance Leads The Way To Global Economic Recovery

    UK Insurance Regulation: Geneva report suggests Insurance leads the way in rebuilding the economy A report by the Geneva Association published this week has indicated that Insurers and Reinsurers are likely to play a mammoth part in rebuilding and restructuring the faltering global economy. The...

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  • Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Business?Despite the recession there’s never been a better time for selling your insurance business with demand and consequently prices high. Agglomeration of books of business and size are still driving factors when it comes to negotiating commission levels with the big Insurance...

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  • “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO

    “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO

    “One event away from a hard market” says Willis CEO By Insurance blogger Kris Oldland It appears that somebody else has spotted some of those fabled green shoots as Tony Ursano CEO of Willis capital markets and advisory, a unit of Willis Group Holdings made...

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  • Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    The grand old lady from carrot crunching country just couldn’t cut the mustard with the bosses of the Iberian sounding Aviva and will officially be given the fatal injection at midnight tonight. As an ex-employee of GA bonus (New Zealand Insurance) do I care? At...

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  • Time is Not on your side – Age as insurance rating factor

    Time is Not on your side – Age as insurance rating factor

    Time is on my side, yes it is! – not! Even their satanic majesties have grown old and wrinkly.It doesn’t matter whether you are young or old – your age is going to to affect what type of cover you are offered for particular insurance...

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  • Aviva – Change Management out of control

    Aviva – Change Management out of control

    I don’t really care what happens to Aviva, in fact I find it an interesting experiment on brand destruction and it’s subsequent consequences in cyberspace. I gave up caring about Aviva a long time ago when it got taken over by Norwich Union! How did...

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  • Insurance Vlog – Insurance Video Blogging comes to life!

    Insurance Vlog – Insurance Video Blogging comes to life!

    Welcome to our insurance vlog For those of you who don’t know what a VLOG is yet (I know not everyone in insurance is a Dinosaur!), well this is one and here is the wikipedia definition fvor the Luddites: Video blogging, sometimes shortened to vlogging...

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  • Scottish Parliament to rescue Banks?

    Scottish Parliament to rescue Banks?

    Its refreshing to see that the unloved Republicans have stuck to their guns and said no to intervention – even it it means a crash and the collapse of their economy and all its global fallout.Why? Because in the UK the opposite situation exists where...

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