Regulation
Dunnett is still good law
I would like to comment on the legal background into the creation of the National Mediation Helpline...
US asbestos bill faces hurdles
US Senate majority leader Bill Frist has announced that he is confident that a bill setting up a national fund to pay a flood of asbestos claims will be tabled in the Senate soon, despite insurers' calls to try to resolve the problem in the courts.
India on track to raise insurance limit to 49%
The Indian government has confirmed that it plans to proceed with plans to increase the overseas investment limit in local insurance companeis to 49% from its present 26%.
5 May election date raises ABI fears
Politicians were today urged to “keep the foot on the accelerator” in legislative drive to reduce uninsured driving as public opinion backs clampdown. The Association of British Insurers said these proposals must not be the ‘ innocent victim’ of the…
Solvency 2 ratings impact measured
Rating agency Fitch has said it does not expect to change the ratings of many insurance companies as a direct result of the new Solvency II regime to be introduced across the European Union (EU). This is because many rated insurers already hold capital…
Axa Re records stable profits despite catastrophic loss events
Axa Re Group recorded a consolidated net income of €129m (adjusted in consideration of the impact from the deconsolidation of US affiliates) in 2004.
Aon yields to political pressure group
Aon Corporation, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, has informed the Burma Campaign UK it is terminating all business in Burma.
Built to last
Building risk
Icy tensions slow glacial collateralisation talks
Collateralisation
Moody's confirms MMC ratings
Re-ratings
APRA releases IFRS paper
Accountancy Standards
How safe is your credit?
Credit risk
IUA to study unlimited cover
Motor Injuries
Rolling out the red tape
Sarbanes-Oxley
Imagine buys Danish Re
The Imagine Group has announced that its subsidiary Imagine Insurance Company has completed the acqu...
Time to grasp the nettle
An open and frank discussion of reinsurance-brokerage practice has so far been lacking and is long overdue
Insurance CEOs to take oath on reinsurance contracts
Acting superintendent of insurance Howard Mills has announced that the New York State Insurance Department will require insurers’ chief executives to swear under oath that: “all reinsurance contracts they enter into contain documentation as to the…
Mondial sets out FSA training plan
Mondial UK, the motor assistance and travel insurance provider, has renewed its contract with traini...