Opinion
Rigorous tests for solicitors
I read the article headlined "Seize the opportunity" (Fraud management briefing plus, 18 October, p3...
Sub-prime: the sleepless nights have just begun
A new wave of financial scandals, including sub-prime mortgages, has descended on the global insuran...
The end is nigh
Solicitors' PI renewals 2007
From pomp to prison
Independent insurance
Brokers target PMI to gain advantages
Amid all the merger activity that has dominated the broking sector recently, two of the largest cons...
Bah, humbug
Dear friend, Oh, how a broker's ear becomes tuned during a soft market! As an example, here are the...
Lessons must be learnt from Independent's fall
Given the track record of the Serious Fraud Office in bringing successful cases, the news that the I...
An industry lagging behind
Insurance as an industry is falling behind, regardless of the spin. When the stock market went throu...
LAML has the resources
I refer to your recent article about the fire at Bentley Wood High School (Post, 11 October 2007, p2...
Sticking to the facts
The House of Lords decision to end compensation for those with asymptomatic pleural plaques has been...
Getting to the heart of loss
I can reassure John Fairley (Post Box, 4 October, 2007) that he need not worry. The primary objectiv...
Flood pledge is woeful
It is now 20 years since the Great Storm of 1987 and the £3bn costs of this summer's floods are well...
Trust me, I'm a doctor
It looks like a row could be brewing between private practitioners and the medical insurers charged ...
Beware of rushing a sale
Following the increase in capital gains tax on selling a business, many brokers may be thinking of s...
Who will win this hand?
So, the government has called the insurance industry's bluff and offered £800m a year for flood defe...
Putting legacy backlog on back burner is a mistake
Amid the spotlight on contract certainty, less public focus has been given to other Market Reform Gr...
MID progress a top priority
The comments by Keith Morris on the future use of the Motor Insurance Database are very welcome and ...
Class is permanent
Activity in the insurance and broking markets has been at a high level for some time now. Yet, I dou...
PPI progress is paramount
The findings of the latest review of the sale of payment protection insurance by the Financial Servi...
FSA has to hit directors where it hurts
The Financial Services Authority has released the latest findings from its ongoing thematic review i...
Polarising the industry
Sifting through the analysis of last week's European Commission Competition Directorate report uncov...
Claims handlers leaving customers out of equation
I read with interest the recent Claims Club report that urged insurers to use the media to better ma...
Icarus Re
Dear friend, There'll be a day of reckoning for these reinsurer clones, you mark my words. Not tha...
Decisions needed to end PPI uncertainty
The imminent publication by the Financial Services Authority of its third thematic review of payment...