Claims
Commentary - Bill is not a help but a burden.
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, which is likely to come into effect on 5 April, appears to be y...
Cook to fry fraud.
Fraudsters watch out. Thomas Cook has launched an investigative unit using the scientific claims scr...
Police defend Lloyd's.
City of London police have moved swiftly to defend the reputation of the Lloyd's insurance market fo...
Woolf workshops.
Cornhill has produced a newsletter for its brokers to help them understand the impact of the upcomin...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Financial analysts Bacon & Woodrow pride themselves on the accuracy of their information. So it came...
London's rising damp.
The race is on to stem the rising water table which is threatening widespread property damage in Lon...
Y2K: US firms hit hard.
US property/casualty insurers will be harder hit by year 2000 costs than life/health companies accor...
Exclusive - RSA offers no win, no fee cover.
Royal & Sun Alliance has launched an innovative 'after-the-event' protection plan aimed at tipping t...
Banks kept at bay.
Aegon has announced a 24.5% increase in annual net profit to £0.85bn with US results bringing a stro...
Millennium plans vital to fight risk.
Sharing with confidence will help defeat fears over the Millennium Bug, argues Derek Brighton of Reed Elsevier.
The Loss Recovery Group devises new scheme.
The Loss Recovery Group has devised a new scheme to cut the claims handling costs of brokers. Instea...
Share Watch.
They say that share buy-backs are the last resort of a management team which has lost its direction,...
LTC stuck in purgatory.
The becalmed long term care market is destined to remain in limbo following the Royal Commission's r...
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
While an employer may be certain that one of his workers has been stealing from or cheating the company, proving it to the satisfaction of a loss adjuster so that an insurer pays out can be easier said than done. Ted Baskerville reports.
St Paul gets to grips with Woolf Report.
St Paul International Insurance this week hosted a series of seminars for brokers on the implication...
Solicitors welcome fall in claims.
Claims against the legal profession are dropping off with a further 15% decline in notifications to ...
Appointment at BIB (Darlington).
Sue Cox and Steve Davies have been recruited to BIB (Darlington). Ms Cox has been made commercial cl...
Commentary - Propping up the Bar.
In recent months, newspapers have been full of articles about 'fat cat lawyers' and 'fat cat barrist...
Fraud case ends up in Lords.
An employer would only be vicariously liable for losses from a fraud in which an employee was involv...
Lender v surveyor.
A mortgage lender which sued surveyors for negligently overvaluing property was found to be liable f...
IFAs to lose dominance.
Difficult times lie ahead for independent financial advisers as the pensions industry prepares for a...
Filming suspended following storms.
The filming of the latest James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough has been suspended following the ...
Exclusive - Travel fraud: the game's up.
Ravenstone UK, claims investigator, has launched a massive expansion in its travel claims business a...
Slammed for poor reports.
The insurance industry has been slammed for its inability to produce reasoned and readable annual re...