Claims
Court in the act.
A leading law firm invited claims handlers into the public gallery at Nottingham County Court to wat...
Big cheese from the Big Apple.
Brokers can get expert advice and tuition from political risk expert James Cunningham when he flies ...
Commentary - Time to tackle football claims.
In recent years, actions by one footballer against another over an alleged career-ending tackle have...
Law speeds up union recognition.
Gordon Noble gives a trade union perspective on how the relationship between the insurance industry and unions will pan out following the publication of the Employment Relations Bill.
Sales pitch is taking sponsorship too far.
Are giant corporate sponsors getting too big for their boots? Recent weeks should make anyone who ca...
A Woolf at the door.
Just how much will the Woolf reforms cost the insurance industry and how many companies are ready? Neil Harris explains.
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer.
Marian Trippier has joined Berrymans Lace Mawer as northern personnel manager. She will handle staff...
New pensions fuel scepticism.
Government plans for a new flexible tax free pensions investment vehicle have met with industry oppo...
Superhighway or dead end?
The government has a radical blueprint for shaking up the UK's pensions system, but Francis Higney asks if the stakeholder pensions system and revamp of the state system actually get to the heart of the problems.
Don't tar all adjusters with the same brush.
As an adjuster who spent 22 years with an international firm but who is now self-employed running hi...
Stakeholder threat.
Pension providers unprepared for the shake up that stakeholder pensions will bring will lose more th...
Scourge of fee schemes.
The letter 'Bad adjusting practices leave fraudsters at large' (PM 14 Jan) makes me realise how fort...
Brokers in pay row.
Five brokers worked for Cantor Fitzgerald International on its Belgian government securities desk. ...
Appointment at Tunbridge Wells Equitable.
Kirsten Newble has joined Tunbridge Wells Equitable as protection product manager. Previously she wa...
The Max factor.
During his first year as Lloyd's chairman, Max Taylor has helped rejuvenate the market to the extent that companies are now fighting to get into Lime Street to do business. Yet Jonathan Guy finds Mr Taylor is not resting on his laurels.
Insurers to get personal.
Experian has launched a a marketing package designed to allow insurers to tailor the way they handle...
Commentary - No win, no fee: insurers handle with care.
It seems insurers are approaching no win, no fee cases with scepticism, and probably with good reaso...
Billion dollar drain.
Alex Beatty finds out how insurers and reinsurers are tackling the Sproblem of fraud.
Names furious as EGM vote fails.
Lloyd's Names have failed in their attempt to block the increased representation of corporate capita...
A finger on the pulse.
Fraudulent claims are an ever present threat for life companies. Keith Sankey looks at efforts to stay ahead of the game.
Looking to the long term.
The UK's Royal Commission on long-term care will report later this month. Tracy Hall and Peter Barnett look at what it might say.
Rugby sponsors force England climbdown.
Financial services companies which have invested millions of pounds in Rugby Union had their say in ...
Appointment at Edge Ellison.
Edge Ellison has recruited three new staff to its insurance group. Dympna Campbell joins from Berrym...
A question of priorities.
The reality is that we are not very close to seeing a virtual insurance market in operation.