Regulation
Independent issues warning
Independent Insurance has warned that its 2000 operating profits will be less tham market expectation...
New DVT cover.
Club Direct has amended its travel products in the wake of the growing debate over the risk of deep ...
California shakes up complaint process.
The US state of California, which was rocked last year by the Chuck Quackenbush scandal in which the...
And then there were three.
There are already two trade associations representing the accident management industry, but last week, a new one was announced. Tony Baker, heading up the venture, explains why he feels the industry needs another association and what it will do.
Time for the industry to pull together?
The Chester Street Insurance Holdings fiasco is a national tragedy. The media witch-hunt will cle...
Overseas killing.
Overseas employees will be able to sue their UK parent companies once the government's new 'corporat...
Disability action.
Disability support groups, consumer groups, insurers and intermediaries will be among the interested...
Willis: new brand.
Willis subsidiary Special Contingency Risks is looking to grow in the UK and abroad on the back of i...
Playing the blame game.
The public is becoming more litigious and local authorities are increasingly being made to pay up. They must ensure that they have adequate risk management systems in place says David Fanning.
Scotland as a microcosm.
The insurance experience of Scotland is much the same as the rest of the UK. However, its size means that certain factors are amplified in their effect as Edward Murray discovers.
Appointment at Willis International Holdings.
Alan Bicque has been taken on by Willis International Holdings as European employee benefits network...
Overseas man to US.
Bermuda-based Overseas Partners' chief underwriting officer Michael Cascio, a Fellow of the Casualty...
Ready for take-off.
Richard Williams, one of the experienced team behind the new Cathedral syndicate at Lloyd's, tells Eric Alexander why there is room for a new lead underwriter in aviation.
Life leaps ahead.
Swiss Re's latest sigma study shows life insurance business booming everywhere but Asia. Janina Clark reviews the report's findings.
Aviation claims continue to climb.
Aviation losses returned to an average level in 2000 after a particularly safe 1999, according to la...
Getting out on top.
Ipe Jacob of Grant Thornton argues that solvent schemes of arrangement are often the best and most logical option for owners of (re)insurance entities or portfolios that have ceased to underwrite new business.
Clark joins CNA.
CNA Re has appointed David Clark vice-president of international treaty business, based in London. M...
Balancing the balance sheet.
Adrian Leonard finds that financial reinsurance can do far more than just help companies meet their solvency targets.
When worlds collide.
Peter Chaffetz and Steven Schwartz examine the conflicts between federal and state arbitration law.
Ex-employees in smear campaign
Disaster recovery company Belfor-Relectronic has accused ex-employees of mounting a dirty tricks camp...
ABI acts over disability
Disability support groups, consumer groups, insurers and intermediaries will be among the interested ...
Merger mishaps.
With consolidation the current watchword in British industry, Angus Ogg explains how warranty and indemnity insurance can provide protection for the risks that can arise from merger and acquisition activity.
Cox raises £90m.
Cox Insurance has raised £90m in the syndicated loan market to refinance existing debt and for gener...
Insurers get genetics call.
Three of the UK's largest insurers have been summoned to give oral evidence to MPs, following a comm...