Select & Protect, one of the industry's...

Select & Protect, one of the industry's largest independent General Insurance providers, has launched a new website.

The company described the move as “part of a major repositioning exercise planned for its product range.”

The new site has been designed to deliver enhanced electronic capabilities to intermediaries by offering a full end-to-end process for the sale, support and account management of the company's general insurance business.

Bruce Reid, Select & Protect's Managing Director, said: “Making it easier for intermediaries to sell general insurance is one of our prime objectives. The new site is unique in that it has been designed to offer a complete start to finish online experience. A new intermediary customer can, without leaving the site, register for an agency, learn about our products and how to sell them, download our trading platform software to set up and submit GI business, manage all administration and interact with our claims, technical and agency support teams or business development managers.”

Additional modules and micro-sites are due to be launched over the coming months.

Select & Protect was formed in 1983, and has 75,000 customers. It 2003 it had annualized premium income in excess of £24.5m.