Opinion
Don't stifle the free spirits
Entrepreneurial brokers have played a fundamental role in the way the insurance market is today and ...
Ghosts walk among us
The history of insurance is peppered with stories of people appropriating the market to make a quick...
Brand development is as vital as advertising spend
Mr O'Roarke makes some excellent and timely points about branding in the insurance industry (Post, V...
The land of the setting sun
According to Royal and Sun Alliance's website, The Sun - established in 1710 - "is the oldest insura...
ABI: replacement vehicle costs are stacking up for members
To clarify recent reports, the Association of British Insurers is not commissioning an independent r...
Is RSA rebrand a price worth paying?
If true, I await with dread the inevitable wailing and gnashing of teeth at the news that 'RSA' is t...
Cyber threats must not go unchecked by industry
Last December, 168,000 patient records were lost by the NHS. Shortly before that, Her Majesty's Reve...
Valhalla!
Dear friend, "What we really need is a good loss to sort everything out." Wandering around the mar...
Candover and Towergate - history repeating itself?
In the recent book Panic, passion and power - effectively an ode to the achievements of Peter Cullum...
No demise for the CII
I would not normally respond to anonymous correspondence but I feel the readers of Post deserve a be...
The brand of make believe
The news that Aviva is considering whether to drop its 175-year-old Norwich Union brand made me thin...
Championing change
ABI outlook
A number of problems with licence plate consistency
As we move more and more towards electronic means of identifying motor vehicles, I think the industr...
Economies of scale
Last summer's floods were described as a "wake-up call" for the country by Sir Michael Pitt in his i...
Ecclesiastical changes tune
There appears to be no end to the wave of broker-buying activity among UK general insurers. Last wee...
Treating customers unfairly
Commission disclosure
Is the CII trying to be 'only game in town'?
As a former Personal Finance Society member who did not renew his membership because of the balderda...
Colorado state outlaws supply chains
I would like to refer to Tony Le Fevre's article "Slaying the golden goose" (Post 24 January, p32). ...
Insurers fail to follow code
With reference to recent articles in the Post, including "Pitt warns insurers of mandatory flood sta...
Legacy is a natural part of insurance's lifecycle
Last month's news of Marsh UK's £200m outsourcing deal with Capita Group is yet one more reminder th...
When is a broker buy not a broker buy? Ask RSA
And so, having previously given the impression that it did not want to get involved in the broker bu...
Credit where credit's due
It does not quite signal a return to anarchy in the credit hire market but rumbles that a trickle of...
Drawback of brain drain
I refer to your article on the claims "Brain Drain" (Post, 10 January, p3) and Mr Richard Hope's res...
Preparation the key to surviving market change
Over recent months we have seen a proliferation in the development of underwriting portfolios and fu...