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Interview: Mark Evans on how Direct Line plans to redefine ‘insurer’
After creating the direct market in the 1980s, Direct Line Group believes it is time for another revolution – with the insurer as a solver of customer problems.
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Briefing: Marsh circles Towergate as negotiations reach sharp end
Process moves towards finale as unsecured bondholders invited to make a bid
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Briefing: Towergate in crisis – the endgame is approaching
With the news that Gallagher has stopped placing new business with the troubled consolidator, a deal to sort out the business is now more pressing than ever
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'Gibraltar must be ready for Solvency II'
Can Gibraltar’s insurers keep up with Solvency II? Efforts by Gibraltar’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) to prepare for Solvency II are paying off. Accounting firm Deloitte’s annual study of the Gibraltar motor insurance market shows that eight of Gibraltar’s firms had solvency margins higher than 200%, up from five at ...
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Briefing: The story behind Direct Line's shrinking business
Insurer’s third-quarter results, just released, show premium falling once more. Should DLG be worried?
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Briefing: What is in the stars for Towergate?
Mark Hodges’ departure leaves a lot of questions unanswered
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The rise and fall of big names within the QBE empire
Property director Peter Fice is the latest big name exit at QBE Europe. Insurance Times examines the big characters who have come and gone at an insurance company where the drama never stops
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Briefing: Could DLG’s international sale spur a review of NIG?
The insurer has consistently stood by its commercial arm, but analysts feel questions must now be asked about its future in the group
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Briefing: ‘Applaud Bardet for Swinton’s culture change’
Reformed sales practices at the broker have helped it overcome its past
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Briefing: what can we expect from the CMA motor probe?
The eagerly anticipated final report from the CMA’s private motor insurance investigation is set to be published in the next couple weeks, but with so much still shrouded in doubt, Insurance Times takes a look at what the industry could face when the remedies are finally published
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Briefing: 'complaints are good for insurers'
Insurers should see figures on complaints from the Financial Ombudsman Service as positive
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Top 50 Brokers 2014: Who are the names to watch in this year's list?
Gallagher has captured everyone’s attention, but MCE, led by Julian Edwards (pictured) is on the rise
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Briefing: The verdict so far on Stephen Hester’s attempts to fix RSA
Stephen Hester has been at RSA six months. He’s achieved a lot but the acid test is yet to come.
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Looking back at market moves: five successful appointments ... and five not so successful
With RSA boss Stephen Hester telling Insurance Times he has high hopes for incoming UK-head Stephen Lewis, Insurance Times looks back at industry appointments that worked out, and those that didn’t
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Briefing: Tough decisions behind Aviva's half-year success
Aviva’s UK general insurance business reported a storming set of half-year results. It’s a story of tough decisions and good management
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Briefing: When will personal lines rates harden?
Next year appears the earliest for a rate uplift. Meanwhile, one insurer is investing heavily in digital
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Briefing: Contingents are a tough but necessary medicine for Willis
Willis’s return to the “Wild West of insurance compensation” could help make up the ground it has lost to its rivals
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Briefing: Motor insurers face fresh wave of redundancies
Editor Saxon East looks at where the threat of job cuts lies in a highly competitive market
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'Crash for cash': 10 of the best
Insurance Times looks back over all the years at the great work insurers have done to catch cheats
