Claims
What the papers said this week.
DAILY MAIL Financial services giant American Express is believed to be close to paying £300m for ...
Insurance industry incompetence wastes money
Insurance industry incompetence is wasting tens of millions of pounds in unnecessary litigation eve...
Calls to sanction the fraudsters.
John Baldock, UK director of investigation services at GAB Robins, called for the imposition of sanc...
Standards may curb failures
Supplier failure has been an all-too-common occurrence in the insurance sector recently. This may stem from a loss of experienced workers and the failure to develop vital forensic skills. Chris Wylde believes stricter standards could be the answer.
TAG: inevitable demise
Claims management companies have again been hitting the headlines after the recent redundancy-by-text-message story. With The Accident Group meeting the same fate as Claims Direct, Paul Shenton asks is this the inevitable end of an era?
Appointment at DLA
DLA has announced two new appointments. Sarah Hill has joined the fraud team in DLA's insurance gro...
Sparking a pollution revolution?
Stricter legislation has hugely increased the potential to be held liable for the costs of clearing up contaminated land, but few have insurance protection. However, once site identification and remediation notices gather momentum, demand will climb,…
ABI's fraud database needs insurer input.
Debra Weekes, head of financial crime prevention at the Association of British Insurers, emphasised ...
Capita move "no great surprise".
We have noted with interest the developments at Capita Insurance Services (PM, 5 June, p48), which f...
ABI targets crooked firms
Formal ties between the Inland Revenue and the Association of British Insurers to help combat comme...
Treasury wrong on travel.
The insurance industry's pleas for a level playing field have been ignored and the Treasury is now r...
FSA will help force insurer action on fraud.
Bob Still, claims manager at insurer MMA, said measures to combat fraud should not be viewed as a co...
PIA founder members meet
The meeting of the founder stakeholders of the Personal Injury Association took place at the Instit...
Stop the rot at the start, pledges PIA founder.
Andy Hoe, marketing director of the Blue Sky Group, a founding member of the fledgling Personal Inju...
Apil doors to be opened to defendant practitioners
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers is considering allowing defendant practitioners to study...
Still pushing for EL reform
Mike Noonan responds to last week's government reports on the state of employers' liability insurance in the UK - are they agendas for action or an opportunity missed?
Industry acts over definition of fraud
The Association of British Insurers is working on a common definition of fraud to help the industry...
EL responses disappointing.
The long-awaited responses to the employers' liability crisis were finally released this week from t...
Reports: mixed reaction from business groups
Business groups gave a mixed reaction to the two liability reports published this week. David Frost...
HSE: Potters Bar report no aid to insurers.
The Health & Safety Commission's third progress report into the Potters Bar rail crash, released las...
Confederation of British Industry hosts seminar.
The Confederation of British Industry is hosting a breakfast seminar on environmental liability in p...
Raising the bar on claims management.
Recent research has shown that problems are brewing in the claims management market. With calls for higher standards, can businesses rise to the challenges ahead? Mark Huxley reports.
Law firm lines up to pick over TAG bones
Law firm Russell Jones & Walker, which acquired the Claims Direct brand when it went into receivers...
DWP and OFT give no clear solutions
This week, the Department of Work and Pensions and the Office of Fair Trading published their long-anticipated reports into employers' liability and liability insurance respectively. PM outlines the recommendations and reports on the feedback.