Claims
Start-up to double offices
JLT is relaunching its renewable energy insurance product under the newly-created Gcube brand. Base...
Looking back
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance ne...
MP critical of industry's 'finicky' Buncefield response
The insurance industry has been heavily criticised for its handling of the Buncefield disaster by th...
Expect the unexpected
Major losses: Adjusting challenges
Scottish Re woes continue with de-listing threat
Troubled life reinsurer Scottish Re Group has announced that on 2 January, 2008 it was notified by the NYSE Regulator, that its share price had fallen a required thirty trading-day average closing stock price of over a dollar per ordinary share.
Start up claims to be largest player in renewable energy sector
A new underwriter launched today aiming to target the percieved increased international appetite for renewable energy initiatives.
Looking back
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance ne...
North of the Border: Pleural plaques - forum shopping threat
On 17 October 2007, the House of Lords issued its long-awaited decision in the pleural plaques case ...
RSA and NU seek map talks
Major UK insurers are interested in working alongside Experian after it unveiled its new groundwater...
Esposito goes early from XL to concentrate on SCA
Bermudian reinsurer XL has announced that its chairman Michael Esposito, has resigned to concetrate on his chairmanship of Security Capital Assurance (SCA), XL's troubled 46%-owned financial insurance affiliate.
Policyholders must accept flood cost burden
The Pitt Review
Looking back
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance ne...
Appeal success for midwife
Rhodes-Hampton v Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust (Court of Appeal - 20 November 2007)
What the papers said this week
Daily Mail The boss of the Prudential insurance company suffered a broken nose after allegedly bein...
PL claim reforms: all shook up?
Legal Report
Axa contest £6m slag contamination claim
Outokumpu Stainless Ltd v Axa Global and others (Queen's Bench Division - 8 November 2007)
APC unveils let product
Commercial insurance underwriting agency APC Underwriting has launched a new residential let product...
Claims settlements quicker insists DAS
Legal Report
Ethics proposal for rehab case managers is drafted
The Case Management Society of the UK has joined forces with two other bodies to create a draft ethi...
The buck stops here
Legal Report
Lloyd's China school gift
Lloyd's is to fund the building of a new primary school in Southern China. The facilities will benef...
Company claims to have developed first UK groundwater flood map
Experian, the information services company, has launched the what it claims is first groundwater flood model to give insurers greater confidence in their underwriting process.
Lloyd’s to build school in China
Lloyd’s is to fund the building of a new primary school in Southern China.
Biba responds to flooding review
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s chief executive Eric Galbraith has responded the Sir Michael Pitt’s review into the flooding this summer by publishing the organisation’s own submission on areas it believes should be addressed.