Regulation
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...
Californian convicted of Lloyd's name fraud.
Lloyd's has become embroiled in another scandal regarding the improper use of its name, after a Calif...
Hampshire wins Helvetia agency contract.
Hampshire Insurance Services has won a contract to be the UK's sole underwriting agency for insuranc...
Axa has announced the outcome of its talks ...
Axa has announced the outcome of its talks with the British Insurance Brokers Association concerning...
Bain proposals incapable of turning Lloyd's.
As a resigned (read trapped) Name at Lloyd's, a former members' agent and now a director of a softwa...
Alex Forbes shells out £28m for actuary firm.
International broking giant Alexander Forbes is to acquire UK consulting actuary Lane Clarke & Peaco...
Churchill sets up new partnerships division.
Churchill Insurance, which recently acquired Prudential's general insurance arm, has set up a new co...
Clocking on to a better pension?
Pension mis-selling scandals have severely dented the life insurance industry's credibility, but could recent government initiatives, such as stakeholder, be about to turn their - and workers' - fortunes around? Keith Sankey reports.
Eureko/PZU deal on hold.
Pan-European insurer Eureko's two-year struggle to increase its stake in Poland's leading insurer PZ...