Claims
The unacceptable side of settling claims.
In view of the current furore about the declining standards of insurer claims service, I wondered if...
Garwyn's Irish plan.
Specialist liability adjuster Garwyn has recruited a team of seven loss adjusters from Irish loss ad...
Stakeholder launch.
Legal & General is to launch a new tiered single-charge pre-stakeholder pension later this year. It ...
Standard Life launches PMI prescriptions.
Standard Life Healthcare claims its new private medical insurance product will cut premiums by up to...
Pensions system.
London market specialist Rebus Insurance Systems has branched into the world of pensions with a new ...
European Ratings - Axa share bid sees ratings vary.
Rating agencies can't agree on the effect of French insurer Axa's proposed move for the 43.7% of sha...
Standard & Poor look sat recent ratings moves.
Martin Hindley from Standard & Poor's looks at recent ratings moves. - Axa Portugal Compania de S...
CGU and Tesco join for life
CGU has tied up with Tesco Personal Finance, the joint venture company owned by Tesco and the Royal B...
Record arbitration year.
Arbitration helped to resolve more than $1bn of property/ casualty insurance and self-insured claims...
Weight of evidence.
John Butler examines the issues surrounding the use of extrinsic evidence to support contract wordings that arose in the case of Kenecott Utah Copper Corp. & Others v Cornhill Insurance.
Weathering the final storm.
Lloyd's is once more facing the unwelcome glare of intense national media interest now that the fina...
ESG set to sell stake in ailing healthcare division.
Bermuda-based ESG Re, which has reported a $42m net loss for 1999, is looking to sell a stake in the...
US state plan criticised.
Three US congressmen have called for a halt to a plan for a government catastrophe reinsurer, claimi...
Appointment at Garwyn.
Garwyn Liability Adjusters has opened two new offices. It has expanded into Northern Ireland for the...
Avon calling for winners.
The winner of this month's Avon Insurance football competition is Mark Chadwick, business developmen...
Stop the ride ... I want to get on.
The glory days of yesteryear have now vanished for loss adjusters and have been replaced by a dog-eat-dog existence with each trying to jump on the merry-go-round of insurers' panels. Simon Threadgold reports.
Negligence over details not a breach of good faith - Dickinson v
10 December 1999 Queen's Bench Division Caroline Dickinson was raped and murdered while on a sc...
Negligence over details not a breach of good faith - Alfred McAlpine
11 February 2000 Court of Appeal A construction worker injured in an accident in 1991 sued McAl...
Lloyd's Twinn ruling
Two Lloyd's Names who owe over £1m to Lloyd's have failed in their attempts to stave off a bankruptcy...
Judges reject massive hike in damages awards
The insurance industry has been spared a massive hike in damages awards, as the Court of Appeal this...
With profits but not without problems.
The government has decided to allow with-profits policies to exist within the scope of its stakeholder pension proposals, but Francis Higney finds that this news has received a mixed reception.
New Garwyn offices.
Liability adjuster Garwyn has opened two offices to add to its existing 12-strong network. A Belfast...
BLM not an RSA casualty.
Law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer has kept its role as a member of Royal and Sun Alliance's commercial l...
Question time.
Martin Bruffell says the Code of Best Practice on Rehabilitation must be reviewed quickly if its impetus is not to be lost and insurers' in-house initiatives are not to be sidelined.