Opinion
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...
SME claims information sharing is the missing link
Opportunities abound in healthcare, especially among small to medium-sized enterprises, where over f...
Good value at £276m?
If further proof were needed about the escalation of pricing in the insurance market, then Towergate...
The lynchpin of a good reputation is paramount
At the start of the year and in this very column, one of the buzzwords for 2007 was 'change'. With b...
Pre-emptive strikes
Insurers buying brokers
Rock in a hard place
The Northern Rock crisis has certainly grabbed the headlines over the last seven days, with the gove...
What next for Direct Line?
I was fascinated to read Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance's chief executive Chris Sullivan's views o...
Data must be protected
The Loans.co.uk data theft last week should act as a wake up call to businesses throughout the count...
D&G, a certain deal in uncertain times
Despite all the doom and gloom and uncertainty regarding recent deals involving venture capital cash...
Media has more to offer than just stereotypes
Well said, Andrew Torrance. I agree that there is a strong case for increasing premiums, and that th...
Immediate action needed for PPI mis-selling
The recent £182,000 Financial Services Authority fine of Hadenglen Home Finance and its chief execut...
Graduates: not the only talent to consider
The UK insurance industry is the envy of the world, and quite rightly so. And I write this as a head...
Generation X; sinner, saviour or slacker?
Another month, another few more independent brokers scrubbed out as the juggernaut of consolidation ...
Realism curbs a supermarket sweep
Norwich Union has shown both courage and naivety in its presentation of its proposed rate increases....