Opinion
View from the Top - Duncan Boyle, UK chief executive, Royal & Sun Alliance
At the Chartered Insurance Institute conference last month, I took part in a panel discussion regard...
Does new D&O guidance go far enough?
This week several City institutions, including the Association of British Insurers and British Insur...
Seven years ago
Looking back
Bradstock serves as warning
The news this week that Alternative Investment Market-listed Lloyd's broker Bradstock had ceased tra...
Driving up standards on British roads?
With around a third of road traffic accidents attributable to someone driving as part of their work, the recently-published government safety leaflet on the subject is welcomed among insurers. However, Brian Lee deems its lack of legal or regulatory…
Insurers under fire as D&O premiums soar
Buyers of directors' and officers' insurance are disgruntled by the hefty increases in prices the sector has been seeing. David Gamble warns underwriters to co-operate - or face a large premium exodus
The bigger picture
Henry Keeling pays attention to issues of global importance at the recent XL Capital Congress
Broadening your horizons
Sal Zaffino considers the importance of diversifying reinsurance placements
Testing times for reinsurers
For reinsurers it seems the response to the 11 September terrorist attacks in the US have left it wi...
FSA sets out reporting rules
I'm afraid Post Magazine is slightly off beam when it reports that our consultation paper on regulat...
Cashing in on outsourcing
Did The Times, that bastion of all that is traditional in the English language, really suggest that ...
Irish insurance moves arouse UK interest
This week sees an interesting bit of cross-fertilisation between the UK and Irish insurance markets....
"Blended" response best for costs
In the recent 'View from the top' article, Andrew Torrance discussed three responses to the central ...
View from the Top
An economic axiom is that competition between firms leads to better products. As students, we would ...
No bun fight at the CII corral
Those expecting a good ole lunch-time bun fight on the last day of the Chartered Insurance Institute...
Insurers must brace themselves for a steep increase in subsidence activity
In light of the recent debate in your columns on this subject, there is no longer any question that ...
Insurance charity should begin at home
I was delighted to see that David Worsfold has been elected president of The Insurance Charities. Po...
6 years ago
Looking back
CII members should look at the longer-term picture as it sets out its blueprint
The Chartered Insurance Institute conference starts in earnest today with a session Drawing the Blue...
Reform is vital to ease EL pressure
Change is essential if the pressure is ever going to be eased on the employers' liability market. Current ABI work in several key areas could be the driver for a move forward, believes Paul Fegan
Should the insurance industry follow the techno lead of Boeing and Nasa?
Nasa seems to think it's a good thing, and Boeing reckons it can hardly do without it. Big names ind...
View from the Top
"Too little, too late" is a criticism that has been levelled at our industry from within and without...
A question of regulation
As the industry braces itself for the fundamental changes the new regulatory regime will bring, Maggie Litster takes a wider perspective and asks is it really necessary, who will it benefit and who will foot the bill
7 years ago
Looking back