Opinion
Weathering the storm
Each year, the Monte Carlo has a distinct atmosphere and its own major themes over the few days of t...
Politics is part and parcel of insurance
Hiscox is a well run and successful insurer; however, I have to doubt the sagacity of its chairman (...
View from the Top - Telling tales for the benefit of all
Last month's deadline for completed applications to the Financial Services Authority triggered much ...
Brokers plea for underwriting help
I am finding it increasingly difficult to find anyone working in insurance companies that can make a...
Is the gender directive losing impetus?
Halifax Bank of Scotland's move into the women-only insurance market is interesting considering ther...
RBS looks to NIG for growth
Last year, when Royal Bank of Scotland bought Churchill, some commentators suggested NIG would not l...
How about pay-as-you-go EL insurance?
Good to see Norwich Union is to pilot pay-as-you-drive motor insurance (PM, 19 August, p3). Presumab...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny's latest sailing adventure at Cowes, courtesy of CNA, proved to be the most eventful of the su...
Facing up to the after effects
The past seven days have seen two catastrophic events put the insurance industry under the spotlight...
Greenaway is good news but support is needed
If comprehensively implemented, the recommendations in the Greenaway Report, published last week, wi...
One size does not fit all brokers
Contrary to what Zurich managing director, UK commercial, Peter Burrows claims (PM, 5 August, p1), t...
Compensation Culture viewpoint
The first in a series of comments from participants in the 'Compensation: Are we all paying too high...
Little help from Greenaway
I wholeheartedly agree with everything Steve Tidd said in his letter last week (PM, 12 August, p8). ...
Penny Black's insurance week
It would appear that Steve Fowler of the Institute of Risk Management is still smarting from televis...
Greenaway motor report needs to be driven home
After initially being scuppered by weapons of mass destruction, or rather the media frenzy surroundi...
Industry must mind the information gap
In its annual review, the Financial Ombudsman Service suggests that among the industry's customer ba...
More quality control is needed to stop the industry rot
The coverage of the AA's latest benchmark British Insurance Premium Index and the possibility of a m...
No issue over overseas business
Julian Ward's letter (Post Magazine, 22 July, p10) regarding, in his opinion, the 'minefield' facing...
Have insurers failed
Last week, on its website, www.postmagazine.co.uk, Post Magazine posed the question: have insurers f...
Policyholders are not as safe as houses
While motor is a compulsory class of insurance in the UK, household cover is not. Although seen as a...
RBS Insurance fared better than motor analysis figures suggest
I am writing to take issue with the report on the Standard and Poor's annual survey of the motor ins...
Compensation culture
Last week, on its website, www.postmagazine.co.uk, Post Magazine posed the question: in light of Aon...
Regulation - super-bug or super-drug?
Regulation and compliance has shaken off its matronly image and become the hop topic of the London i...
Penny Black's insurance week
Following the press release Penny received from ASB Law last week, which was five months late, one h...