Regulation
BIA 2002: race to win recognition underway.
The starting pistol has been fired in the race to win recognition at the industry's ultimate accolad...
Marlborough Stirling to offer general to IFAs.
Software provide Marlborough Stirling is aiming to broaden its sphere of influence and offer indepen...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny thought she had gone mad on Sunday when, after reading about The Underwriter's proposed float ...
Focus Solutions has teamed up ...
Focus Solutions has teamed up with the British Insurance Brokers Association to create a technology ...
Flood report: UK left high and dry.
As insurers, homeowners and businesses brace themselves for another season of floods, the government...
Reinsurance cycle will flatten out
Cycles in the reinsurance industry will be shallower in the future, according to Alice Schroeder, ins...
Inreon begins Asia expansion in Hong Kong
The on-line reinsurance trading platform Inreon has opened an office in Hong Kong as part of its expa...
Scandinavian Re stops underwriting
Bermudian finite reinsurer Scandinavian Re has stopped underwriting new business and renewing existin...
Russians pool risks to combat high rates.
Six Russian insurers have teamed up to establish a terrorism risk pool, claiming reinsurance has bec...
NU takes innovative lead in flood fight.
It is sad to say, but more than a year on from the insurance industry's first representations to the...
Assistance companies set for stress windfall.
Employers and their insurers are not alone in welcoming last week's Court of Appeal decision to over...
Piper Alpha gets long-awaited ruling.
The House of Lords has handed down a landmark final judgement in the long-running Piper Alpha litiga...
ABI wins NHS law reprieve.
The Association of British Insurers last week won a temporary reprieve from the government, which ca...
Guardian accounts row.
Disaster recovery firm Guardian IT has announced accounting discrepancies of between £2m and £2.5m. ...
Good repute is good business.
John Browne, one of the speakers at the Chartered Insurance Institute's Society of Fellows' inaugural Breakthrough lecture last November, revisits his theme and warns insurers that they must safeguard their reputations for the wider survival of the…
Federal prosecutors claim to have completed the investigation ...
Federal prosecutors claim to have completed the investigation into a scandal that drove Californian ...
Odyssey Re gets new chief in London shake-up.
David Newman, chief executive officer of Lloyd's managing agency Newline, is being replaced by fello...
Transport PI claims soar.
The judiciary needs to take a tougher stance to deal with a new rash of public transport- related pe...
View from the Top - Paul Spencer
Paul Spencer, UK Chief Executive, Royal & SunAlliance It is, perhaps, topical on Valentine's Day to...
Young speaks out on the CIIG campaign.
Ten months on from the collapse of Independent Insurance, Kevin Young, who fronts the Creditors of Independent Insurance Group, puts the record straight on the progress of the campaign for justice.
Indie: test cases set for March.
The claims of ex-Independent staff, who believe they were unfairly dismissed by the collapsed insurer...
Leaseholders of WTC agree a settlement.
The group of investors holding the lease at the World Trade Center, led by Larry Silverstein, is rep...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny was looking forward to meeting up with one of her old pals Andy Homer this week to chat about ...
ABI/BBA merger plan
Paul Spencer, UK chief executive of insurance giant Royal & Sun Alliance, speaking exclusively in Pos...