Regulation
Raising Australian standards
After re-licensing all insurers in 2002, the Australian Regulator is moving to a second stage of Prudential Reforms
No room for get-out clauses
A recent ruling for Eagle Star stresses the importance for reinsurers to follow the settlements
Standards - CEA welcomes first draft IASB rules
The Comite Europeen des Assurances (CEA) has issued a cautious welcome to the draft regulations prop...
Sampling the local goods
By Isobel McCalman, Editor. It is always going to be a struggle to convince anyone who doesn't ever...
Reweb - XL Capital announces fourth-quarter 2003 results
Bermuda-based (re)insurer XL Capital has announced that the company's fourth-quarter 2003 results wi...
Standards - NAIC calls for streamlined regulation
The Interstate Compact National Standards Working Group, part of the National Association of Insuran...
Exemptions - IUA publishes FET list
The International Underwriting Association (IUA) has published an online list of the London company ...
CEA backs EU roads campaign
The Comité Européen des Assurances has lent its support to the European Road Safety Charter launched this week.
Moody's report criticises US under-reserving
US P&C and reinsurance companies are still "significantly" under-reserved, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Services.
IUA and CII unite for exams
Marcus Alcock The Chartered Insurance Institute has joined forces with the International Underwriti...
View from the Top - Shoot the sacred cow of annual renewal
David Martin, chairman, corporate division, Aon. It's time to shoot a scared cow. The one I have in...
Taxing issues in the new EU
EU Expansion
Tribune to be investigated
A police specialist fraud unit has started investigating the collapsed insurance intermediary, Tribu...
Insurance executives come under fire
Insurance executives have come under fire from a Parliamentary committee for receiving large salary ...
European insurers making capital progress
There is light at the end of the tunnel for beleaguered European insurers in 2004, despite the unpre...
Case reinforces limited actuary use - Prigmore v Welbourne
(Queen's Bench Division - 21 November 2003) On the question of care for the deceased's disabled dau...
Household holds water
Weather Report
Tobin takes top slot at XL Capital as Brown retires
Bermudian insurer XL Capital's insurance operations chief executive Nicholas Brown is retiring and b...
Defra launches consultation over greenhouse gas plan
Weather Report
Don't let knowledge walk out the door
With the economy feeling like it's on the up, and companies moving from battening down-the-hatches m...
FSA Conduct of Business rules criticised
The Financial Services Authority's Conduct of Business rules have been criticised for following EU d...
Rubicon to enhance personal injury claims handling
Rubicon is looking to enhance its personal injury claims handling with the implementation of Claims ...
EL: call for tax incentives
The president of the Confederation of British Industry Sir John Egan has called on the government to...
FSA costs to break £200m
The Financial Services Authority's annual budget is expected to break the £200m threshold for the first time this year, partly as a result of impending regulation of mortgage business and insurance brokers.