Claims
ABI delays best practice guidelines as debate rages
Publication of best practice guidance for commercial property insurers on dealing with various type...
Davies: new adjusting arm
Loss adjuster Davies Group is set to establish a new nationwide agricultural division to capitalise...
Testing times in an unhealthy sector
Asbestos-related deaths are mounting and with them, the volume of compensation having to be paid out to claimants and their dependents. Andrew Morgan asks whether insurers can cope with the continual drip, drip, drip of claims coming through.
Think-tank tackles ATE
Insurers and claims management companies came face to face last week under the auspices of an ind...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
There is something quite reassuring about the use of the bold orange colour on the front page of th...
Appointment at Lucas Fettes
Neil Lyons has joined insurance broker Lucas Fettes as a new business account handler. Mr Lyons has...
Manchester gets back on track
After all the upheaval caused by the collapse of Independent Insurance, Manchester is experiencing something of a revival. Richard Adams explains why the insurance industry is keen to journey back up North.
Capita Insurance Services forms new senior management team
Capita Insurance Services has formed a new senior management team for McLarens Technical Adjusting ...
New PIA gets cash backing
The new cross-industry claims management body the Personal Injury Association this week said almost...
Rubicon looks to slice 40% off sick bill
Rubicon Health plans to make a major push into the corporate health market next month, with the lau...
Insurer quizzed as founder Rutter exits
Rating agencies Fitch and AM Best were due to meet the senior management of London market insurer T...
Health staff stressed out over change
National Health Service and local government employees are the most stressed out workers in the UK,...
Asbestos claim signed away - Alan Matthews v Ministry of Defence
(House of Lords - 13 February 2003) Alan Matthews served in the Royal Navy as an electrical mecha...
Judiciary key to rehab progress
The need for a catalyst to take the practice of rehabilitation "to another level" has been recognis...
McLarens reunion stokes up adjuster
Loss adjusting group the Quest Gates Partnership is aiming to become the UK's largest independent a...
Aston Scott Special Risks launches new policy
Aston Scott Special Risks, a division of Aston Scott Group, has launched Protect & Serve, a new pol...
Stress at work case thrown out - Michael Barlow v Borough of Broxbourne
- (Queen's Bench Division - 24 January 2003) This case provides a further application of the prin...
Globaltime decision due today
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) is expected to decide today whether to try to be...
All is not rosy in the claims handling garden
A recent survey of claims handlers to analyse attitudes to work and management shows that such companies still have a long way to go to provide optimum job satisfaction. Hugh Thompson says businesses that want to succeed should heed the warnings and act…
Esure acts over skills gap
Direct insurer Esure is looking to launch a new in-house training academy for its claims team in th...
Bodily injury claims keep on rising
Tomorrow will see the publication of the third UK bodily injury study by the International Underwri...
St Paul eyes UK for IT platform
Insurer St Paul has not ruled out introducing its new US technology platform for agents and brokers...
ABI: pressure on renewals
The Association of British Insurers has come under renewed pressure to introduce defined notice per...
NCorp set for ABI fraud-busters
Fraud detection software provider NCorp this week said it was "quietly confident" it will become pa...