Opinion
VC culture set to swoop?
Whether prompted by Post's Power List or not, it was certainly serendipitous that two of the top fou...
We need to regain trust
Imagine, as a broker, if a lender got in touch with you to say it was improving the conditions of yo...
Broker price indiscipline can't go on
It's about time that UK composites stopped 'pussy footing' around brokers. For too long brokers, in...
Aggregation aggro?
The rise of the aggregators in personal lines is a phenomenon. They have become a force to be reckon...
Service mantra not evidenced on frontline
While I'm delighted to see that luminaries from the insurance industry are sitting around a table to...
Competition: Win a copy of Six of the Best
In the Chartered Management Institute's new book, Six of the Best, author Ed Peppitt brings together...
In the shadow of the FSA
This week a significant chunk of the UK general insurance sector will decamp to East London for the ...
Working together to bring about change
The Department of Constitutional Affairs' (now Ministry of Justice) recent consultation paper on per...
Synergy looks to innovate with long-awaited launch
It took five years to get off the ground and began as a product for high-net-worth personal lines, w...
New ATE model a blessing in disguise
I write with reference to Paul Asplin's comments (Post, 26 April 2007, p1 - "ATE threatened by refor...
FSA faces consolidation or divestment quandary
The 1982 Lloyd's Act was primarily introduced to improve the governance of Lloyd's and, in doing so,...
The Claimant's View
The Department of Constitutional Affairs' much-delayed claims process consultation was widely welcom...
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Clearing the confusion
Comment: Enterprise risk management
VAT among the pigeons
I agree with Morag Heighway that notice 701/57 really clarifies, rather than alters, the position on...
Revisiting old debates
Brokers are often seen as a suspicious breed, especially regarding regulation. But it appears that ...
It's not what you say
The general insurance industry is burdened with a negative reputation that its current customer perf...
Counting the cost of ATE reforms
As an experienced personal injury claims handler, who has worked both on the defendant and after-the...
Pricing, commission and consolidation
The words "extraordinary" and "crazy" are being used this year to summarise market prices for commer...
Willis bolsters message with McManus swoop
This week Royal and Sun Alliance broker managing director Brendan McManus announced that he was to l...
A chance for the industry to seize the day
The Government's proposals to reform the personal injury claims process recognise what the Associati...
Technology is a tool not a cost-cutting exercise
There's a hoary old saying with more than a ring of truth about it that a couple of my colleagues ar...
Snowball will pack a punch
If there had been one criticism levelled at Towergate, it was that it lacked a real City heavyweight...
Website clarity needed
Every day brokers meet the challenge of keeping up to date with new products, to be able to advise t...