Opinion
The consolidation conundrum
It is always interesting to read a viewpoint from Robert Hiscox. He enjoys all the classic Lloyd's ...
NU moves to stub out flurry of smoking-related claims
Given the talk about a potential avalanche of smoking-related claims in the future it is no surprise...
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Penny Black's insurance week
Penny was most interested to see which of her insurance industry chums were in The Sunday Times Rich...
MID classic car poser
Barry Smith rightly outlines the necessity of motor insurers moving forward with the Greenaway recom...
A vote for the future of the FSA
With the General Election now set for 5 May, it is time for the political parties to get on with the...
Claims floodgate warning
While passive smoking causes irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, and epidemiological evidence s...
Let sleeping dogs lie and move on with regulation
I've been looking forward to this week for some time, due to my second British Insurance Brokers' As...
Dunnett is still good law
I would like to comment on the legal background into the creation of the National Mediation Helpline...
Arts Centre, not a hotel
I thought I should draw your attention to the fact that the building pictured on p35 of your supplem...
The impending capital crisis in global insurance markets
The global (re)insurance industry is facing a looming shortage of capital. In our view, industry lea...
Time to grasp the nettle
An open and frank discussion of reinsurance-brokerage practice has so far been lacking and is long overdue
More of the same in 2005
Four months into the year and 2005 appears to be continuing from where 2004 left off, with the brigh...
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Database helps up the fraud stakes
While the insurance industry should be congratulated on its efforts to combat fraud, given the revel...
Comedian causes Churchill campaign to stall
Finally, it was good to see Churchill take decisive action over the news that Vic Reeves, who has vo...
Claims staff can't do it on their own
Norwich Union director of technical claims Dominic Clayden is completely right when he says that "ef...
Corporate bill does little to change accountability
The government's planned publication of a watered-down Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill should be m...
FSA needs to get into the "real world"
There has been a lot of coverage recently accusing the Financial Services Authority of letting peopl...
Solicitors biased over claims limit
Of course Thompsons doesn't want the small claims limit increased from £1000 to £5000 - it would los...
Reinvention better than cure
In 1993, I was lucky to be involved in the birth of Corporate Capital at Lloyd's. It was 'do or die'...
16 years ago
Looking back
Falconer cracks down on "claims chancers"
Lord Falconer has confirmed the PM story that "claims chancers" - a phrase newly coined by the Const...
In defence of disaster recovery
Having read Mr Charlton's letter in a recent issue ('Carlisle was treated with industry incompetence...