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In series - On data: An era of androgyny
With gender set to disappear from the underwriting landscape at the end of 2012, what factors will insurers turn to when accessing risk?
Insurer |
31 Jan 2012 
In series - On data: Data driven
Insurers must seize the initiative and make Europe’s mandate to remove gender from premium calculations work for them.
Insurer |
31 Jan 2012
Credit hire: Collision course
The thorny issue of credit hire continues to tax insurers — but should they be doing more to control costs?
Claims |
31 Jan 2012
Directors' and officers': Under the spotlight
With boardrooms coming under increasing scrutiny, the potential for expansion in the D&O market is being recognised by savvy insurers, especially in the SME space.
Regulation |
31 Jan 2012
Broker focus - Personal lines: Survival tactics
Embattled personal lines brokers are facing a tough climate with falling incomes and business volumes, but those willing to adapt to the new environment can survive and prosper.
Personal |
31 Jan 2012
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Riot claims: Disorderly conduct
The fallout from last summer’s riot continues to rumble on, with consequential loss claims against the police relying on principles that can be traced back to the age of Robin Hood.
Claims |
31 Jan 2012
Spotlight on environment: Getting protected
When the Statement of Principles on the provision of flood insurance expires next year, how will insurers address the 200 000 high-risk households left struggling for cover?
Insurer |
24 Jan 2012
Spotlight on environment: Extreme measures
Extreme weather events can have enormous economic costs, with huge uncertainty surrounding them. So how can this uncertainty be communicated in a meaningful way to decision makers?
Reinsurance |
24 Jan 2012
Spotlight on environment: Providing protection
With climate change increasing the likelihood of natural disasters, insurers must influence the debate on how businesses and governments manage risks such as supply chain failure.
Insurer |
24 Jan 2012
Reinsurance - January renewals: Toughen up
Despite the catastrophes of 2011, the predicted — and much needed — January renewal rate hardening has failed to materialise.
Reinsurance |
24 Jan 2012
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Insurance Insight
Your one-stop-shop for all the news in the European, Asian and Middle Eastern insurance markets
Credit hire: Two sides to the story
Credit hire organisations and insurers are blaming each other for the cost of credit hire. With the Office of Fair Trading conducting a review, will anyone emerge victorious?
Claims |
24 Jan 2012
Mergers & Acquisitions: Bucking the trend
As the market weighs up the value of assets such as Groupama and Brit’s UK arms, deal making by insurers appears to be buoyant, especially when compared to other industry sectors. But is this a trend that is set to continue?
Insurer |
24 Jan 2012
Broking - Mergers & acquisitions: Do not disturb
2011 was a relatively sleepy year for merger & acquisition activity in the broker sector. Could 2012 be a wake-up call or will the market stay snoozing?
Broker |
17 Jan 2012
Arab Spring: Life during wartime
Continuing civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa presents a challenge to the property insurance market — especially concerning the limits placed by the war risks exclusion.
Lloyd's/London |
17 Jan 2012
Capital adequacy: Alternative finance
With Solvency II just 12 months away, and 2011 an unprecedented catastrophe year, how difficult will it be for insurers to attract equity or secure alternative funding?
Insurer |
17 Jan 2012
Comment
Interview
Interview - Bobby Gracey & Dr James Lygate: The future of forensics
Despite an abrupt and fractious first meeting many years ago, Bobby Gracey and Dr James Lygate are now business partners...
View from the top
View from the top: Value added pacts
The industry must band together to push the added value that insurers offer, says Elliot Miller.
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Events
Against the grain 2011: A series of guest articles from expert commentators
Designed to stimulate new ideas, fresh thinking and innovation in the motor claims market.
The new world for insurance: business perspectives on phase II
The issues driving domicile have become a topic of ongoing interest to the insurance industry. This is why we decided that it was a subject worthy of some closer investigation.
Swiss Re and Mapfre take a bigger slice of Admiral
Post |
03 Feb 2012
Axa prepares to screen £20m marketing campaign
Post |
01 Feb 2012
Groupama commercial underwriters relocate to UK regions
Post |
03 Feb 2012
Cunningham Lindsey’s Roberts steps down
Post |
02 Feb 2012
Zurich targets food and sports sectors
Post |
02 Feb 2012
Editor's comment: Oxygen offers lessons for all
The ‘breath of fresh air’ puns were never too far away when the London market broker Oxygen was launched in 2004 with...