Claims
Paving the road to recovery.(1)
Insurers agree that rehabilitation is the way forward concerning personal injury claims, but are they prepared to put their money where their mouths are? David Worsfold finds out.
Rates won't bomb.
Despite this week's terrorist explosion outside the BBC London headquarters, it is unlikely insurers...
ABI: recoverability protocol in reach.
The Association of British Insurers said, this week, it believed a new protocol on the recoverabilit...
Britannic to axe 2000 jobs
Britannic confirmed this morning it is to axe 2000 jobs from its direct sales force under plans to re...
FOIL in ATE climb down.
The Forum of Insurance Lawyers appears to have backed down in its battle against the after-the-event...
A moving animal problem is cultivating risk.
Many sectors of the insurance industry are nervously watching the development of the foot and mouth ...
Appointment at Property & Casualty Services.
Property & Casualty Services has made Nicola Ingram vocational rehabilitation case manager. She will...
MAFF considers livestock cover.
Insurers have scoffed at the idea of a compulsory insurance scheme for farmers in the wake of the fo...
Action needed to drive out the uninsured.
Mr Rodgers is correct and I was referring to RTA certificates (PM, 15 February, p16). Like him, I kn...
Global investigation.
Royal & Sun Alliance is investigating the apparent fraudulent use of the name Globe Indemnity Compan...
PI Direct launches new broker division.
Professional indemnity underwriter PI Direct has launched a new broker-only operation PI Brokerlink ...
Devitt: scooter deal.
Devitt Insurance Services has won the contract from Yamaha to provide free third-party cover on newl...
Water risk a clear one.
Darby v National Trust Court of Appeal 29 January 2001 The claimant, her husband and childre...
Matthew Thomas Gough (by his mother & litigation friend Karen Gough)
Queens Bench Division 2 February 2001 The claimant, an eight-year-old schoolboy, fell from a ba...
Bermuda in clash with UK on reporting.
The Bermuda government has rejected half the proposals by the UK government to extend (re)insurance ...
Westminster goes to AGF.
Allianz's transport arm, AGF MAT, has bought London-based Westminster Aviation Insurance Group. A...
Legal & General profits up
Legal & General reported pre-tax operating profit on an achieved basis of £678m for 2000, up 4%, toda...
SBJ name change.
SBJ Stephenson's professional indemnity division has been renamed SBJ Professional, reflecting the t...
Appointment at Langleys Solicitors.
North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire-based Langleys Solicitors has recruited Simon Gibson as senior soli...
... a fraud product specialist.
Gabrielle Ashley, SCORE product manager at Crawford, is passionate about beating fraud. Jane Bernstein spent a day with Gabrielle and discovered how her commitment to the fraud management solutions product she designed and the team being built up to…
Appeal for ATE sanity.
I was interested to note the article Definitive ruling sought (Post Magazine, 15 February, p1) and t...
Animal magic.
Vets fees vary wildly between practices and it has been suggested that pet insurance gives vets a licence to charge higher rates. While many argue that a level playing field is needed, where all pets are covered, 87% of cats and dogs remain uninsured,…
Insurers explore the cost of rehabilitation.
Insurers and insurance lawyers, all members of the Bodily Injury Claim Managers Association, last we...
Underwriters get wake-up call.
Wake up. Wake up. To the twentieth century. The words of a punk band in the 1970s (the Vibrators, as...