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Lloyd's inertia fear.
As the insurance industry endeavours to meet the demands for information on the financial implication...
GISC rule decision no victory.
This week's imagined victory by the Institute of Insurance Brokers and the travel agents over the Ge...
CIS welcomes Sarwar v Alam ruling despite defeat
Although the Court yesterday upheld the previous Chester County Court ruling in the case of Sarwar v ...
Common law won Chase case - HIH Casualty v Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase, through agents, negotiated several financial insurance contingency policies with HIH. HIH soug...
A legal view on last week's US terrorist attacks.
Catherine Hawkins provides a legal overview of the insurance implications of last week's terrorist attacks.
Making headway.
The long-term care of traumatic brain injury sufferers puts a huge strain on resources - both at work and at home. Dr Philip Feldman and Heather Batey cite early rehabilitation, particularly home-based, as the most effective option - for all involved.
Dousing fraud.
As the country braces itself for recession, David Hooker believes the implications for the insurance industry could include an increase in fraudulent claims - particularly fire, motor and theft. Insurers need to take evasive action now.
Appointment at Greystoke Legal Services.
Dr Chris Hiley has joined Greystoke Legal Services from a Midlands-based law firm, where he was a pa...
ATE insurers overturn ruling.
After-the-event insurers were yesterday expected to find out that they succeeded in overturning a ru...
Lawyers call for unity
A conference organised jointly by the association of personal injury lawyers (Apil) and the forum of ...
ATE insurers set for victory in Sawar case
After the event insurers expect to find out today that they succeeded in overturning a ruling in the ...
APIL welcomes Sarwar v Alam decision
The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers has welcomed today's ruling in the case of Sarwar v Alam, ...
Four insurers on Slovenska takeover shortlist.
German insurer Allianz, Italian La Fondiaria and Dutch insurance group Eureko are among the four com...
Passing on costs.
I would suggest a paraphrase to the final paragraph of last week's excellent article on solicitors' i...
Stakeholder take up.
Almost 70,000 new stakeholder pensions were bought in July, according to figures released this week ...
Costs must be agreed.
Some two years after the introduction of the Woolf reforms, there is very little agreement about how...
CII conference is taking stock.
Next week's Chartered Insurance Institute annual conference comes in the wake of what has undeniably ...
Angling for cover.
The solicitors' professional indemnity season has kicked off and several big fish have taken the plunge. While rates increase as they jostle for position, Simon Threadgold assesses the impact of the resulting rate rises across the whole PI sector.
Terrorist atrocity leaves insurers facing record costs
In the wake of the havoc that was wreaked in the US yesterday the total bill to insurers is expected to top the $3bn (£2.05bn) paid out following the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in 1988, which is currently the most expensive man-made incident for…
PMI shake up needed warns market analyst
Problems loom large on the horizon for the Private Medical Insurance industry unless it can combat ri...
Moody's warns against early optimism
Reinsurers anticipating large rate increases at the 1 January renewals should not celebrate just yet,...
Stakeholder figures "encouraging" claims ABI
Almost 70 000 new stakeholder pensions were bought in July, according to figures released today by th...
A winning hand?
When solicitors' indemnity went on the open market, insurers were cautious about gambling on a relatively unknown entity. One year on, the stakes look set to rise and Jane Bernstein asks if insurers could have got their odds wrong.
Hibernian Ignites.
Hibernian has become the latest Irish insurer to introduce a scheme to help reduce claims among youn...