Regulation
MEP calls for EU inquiry into insurance regulation
Euro MPs are demanding a European Commission investigation into UK insurance regulation in the wake o...
Ensign to buy syndicate 318 from QBE
Lloyd's insurer Ensign Holdings Limited has agreed in principle to acquire the right to manage Lloyd'...
Moody's downgrades Cotesworth syndicate 535
Rating agency Moody's Investor Service has downgraded the performance rating of Lloyd's syndicate 535...
Irish insurers face massive hospital bills
Hospitals in Ireland will be able to recover the full costs of treating road accident victims from in...
Zurich liable in recent Dieppe tragedy.
Zurich Municipal, the insurer partly covering the school party in which a British school girl tragica...
FSA denies dragging feet over Independent
Sir Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Services Authority has rejected outright accusations tha...
MP ups pressure on FSA.
Barry Gardiner MP has vowed to keep up pressure on the government to overhaul the Financial Services...
Lost property.
The personal finance channel on FT.com, FTyourmoney, has joined forces with the Unclaimed Assets Reg...
California Earthquake Authority "is sound"
The Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC) says that the California Earthquake Authority ...
TiG close to sealing £115m bid for MTW.
Consultancy and software provider The Innovation Group is poised to complete the acquisition of MTW,...
Stop before it's too late.
Regulation, regulation, regulation. This could well turn out to be a mantra that will come to haunt t...
Insurers defeated.
Facultative reinsurers this week won back the claims pen from insurers following a landmark Court of ...
Who will pay the bill?
The collapse of Independent has led to inevitable concerns over who will pick up the pieces. Jonathan Davies explains what the longer term knock-on effect could be.
Injury rate blow.
The government's decision to lower the discount rate on damages awards, costing insurers millions of...
PwC at Commons.
The liquidators from PriceWaterhouse Coopers will face the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insuranc...
Lloyd's analysis shows disparity.
Lloyd's recent severe losses - estimated to be some £3.3bn for the period 1998-2001 - mask a substan...
La Dolce Vita for Hammond Suddards
Law firm Hammonds Suddards Edge is to merge with Italian firm Rossotto e Associati on 1 January 2002....
Penny Black's insurance week.
The boys and girls from Independent seem to have been taking a leaf out of DJ Chris Evans' book late...
Jobs created.
Up to 450 jobs are to be created in County Donegal, Ireland, by the Prumerica company, a division of...
GISC to lead to FSA regulation.
Insurers believe the move to self regulation under the General Insurance Standards Council may be an ...
Litigation hub for PI claims.
City-based insurance law specialist Vizards Staples & Bannisters and Dartford-based law firm A E Wye...
Plan to unravel the LMX spiral.
It should be clear by now if enough reinsurers have agreed to back a plan to rescue them from the pro...
Good news and bad.
As one problem appears close to being solved so another one surfaces. First the good news. Grant Th...
Be careful on cut-throughs.
Following last month's article on enforcing cut-through provisions, Peter Chaffetz and Steven Schwartz warn reinsurers to watch out for other issues that can arise when they grant cut-through rights.