A brave new e-world
The Insurance Institute of London's Advanced Study Group on e-commerce should help underwriters and brokers to not only identify the new risks but spot opportunities, argues Michael Lent.
UK insurers have been extremely resistant to involve themselves inthe new risk area of e-commerce. The obvious difficulty with insuring
firms that operate on the web is that this is a new world
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