Regulation
Euro shake-up to cost billions.
UK insurers have been criticised for failing to help shape the future of European industry regulatio...
On good authority.
The recent imposing of new regulations by the FSA has put the delegated authority sector under the spotlight. The need for compliance and quality controls has had a direct impact on the recruitment and training of staff within these schemes, says Lesley…
One voice not enough for all.
The proposed ABI/BBA merger raises questions over how the smaller players will get their voices heard, says Steve Devine.
On-line reinsurance platform Inreon opens in Hong Kong
Online reinsurance trading platform Inreon has opened an office in Hong Kong as part of its expansion...
Out of their hands?
A proposed EC directive will mean all intermediaries must have mandatory PI cover. However, in a market where rates are hardening drastically, could brokers and IFAs be trapped into high premiums and poor cover? Francis Higney reports.
IRM: new boss plans shake-up.
Mark Butterworth, who has been elected as chairman of the Institute of Risk Management, following a ...
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...