Regulation
Scor attacks downgrading
French (re)insurer Scor has described rating agency AM Best's decision to lower the company's financ...
LMP Changes - Modernisation of London market continues
With a number of different projects from the London Markets Principles (LMP) programme maturing, the...
Pricing and capacity - Desperately seeking security
The reinsurance market is hardly awash with capacity after the net capital outflow of the last two years, but broadly speaking there is enough
More turbulence is on the way
Uncertainty is still widespread in the troubled aviation (re)insurance market, as it enters its main renewal period
Raters are tolerated but not loved
The rating companies have huge influence but reinsurers are beginning to bite back when they receive poor ratings
IUMI Conference Update - Profitability is key
Last month's conference of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) in Seville focused on ...
Pricing and capacity - The price is right
The evolving business environment means (re)insurers would benefit greatly from breaking past cycles and focusing on risk-adequate pricing
Prettejohn calls for efficiency
Lloyd's chief executive Nick Prettejohn has warned that the insurance industry must take urgent acti...
S&P Report - A question of collateral
Demand is growing for changes to the present collateralisation rules for alien reinsurers operating ...
CII launches new qualifications
The Chartered Insurance Institute officially launched its new insurance qualifications framework thi...
FSA sets out reporting rules
I'm afraid Post Magazine is slightly off beam when it reports that our consultation paper on regulat...
ABI finally publishes draft statement
The Association of British Insurers has finally published its draft statement of best practice on HI...
Cashing in on outsourcing
Did The Times, that bastion of all that is traditional in the English language, really suggest that ...
Charles Clarke pays tribute to graduates
Charles Clarke, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, paid tribute to the graduates at the in...
Hiscox hits out at undynamic bosses
Robert Hiscox, chairman of Hiscox, launched a scathing attack on senior managers in the UK insurance...
Biba calls for complaint fee
The British Insurance Brokers' Association will this week call on the Financial Services Authority t...
Iain Duncan Smith speaks at lunch session
Speaking at the Thursday lunch session Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith said it was impor...
Chartered Insurance Institute Conference
This year's Chartered Insurance Institute conference was held in London last week. The PM team reports
Goshawk future at a crossroads
London Market News
What the papers said this week
THE MAIL Directors of the insurance company at the centre of the Paddington rail crash compensation...
Agreeing to cut clinical costs
Legal Report
FSA plans could see capital exodus
The UK insurance industry could face an exodus of capital to offshore centres like Gibraltar, unless...
Handover may see GISC complaints lost
Consumers could see complaints being lost in the system when statutory general insurance regulation ...
Primary buy boosts staff
Health-related employee benefits consultancy Health for Industry, part of Bermudian-based insurance ...