Regulation
Nuclear revival raises concerns.
Unlikely as it seems in the increasingly environmentally conscious world, nuclear energy is not just surviving but may even expand. Maria Kielmas investigates the liability issues.
Raising reinsurance standards.
Argentina's reinsurers and brokers have to abide by new rules, but they are not all happy, report Mauricio Kitaigorodzki and Vic Wyman.
Liquidator at a loss.
Steven Schwartz reviews Alabama Re's recent success in defeating an aggressive claim by the liquidator of Inter-American Insurance Company of Illinois.
Names continue to fight.
The organisation that represents Names who rejected the 1996 restructuring of Lloyd's has promised t...
Zimbabwe to sell state reinsurer
Zimbabwe Re said that the government of Zimbabwe had decided to sell its 56.75% stake in the company....
Lloyd's denies wrongdoing in Quackenbush case
Lloyd's has denied suggestions that it is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...
Archaeological insurance is uncovered.
With regard to your news story Asbestos claims reach a dead-end (PM, 15 February, p1), I am a specia...
Aon goes to sea.
Aon Occupational & Health has cemented its position as a leading OH services provider to the North S...
Life goes on.
The fallout from the South-east Asian financial crisis has done little to hold back the life insurance business, in fact the region is proving very attractive to foreign insurers as many recent joint ventures have proved, says Jeremy Golden.
PMI promises are slammed.
Private health insurers this week welcomed a Conservative Party promise to make group private medica...
Chester Street buck passed.
The government has washed its hands of the Chester Street asbestos insurance claims debacle that has...
Wood to leave Axa for Pru
Mark Wood, chief executive of Axa UK, is to join the board of Prudential in the new role of chief exe...
Insurers admit partnerships not working
Almost half of the UK's insurers have admitted disappointment with their partnership deals with non-t...
Diversifying Halifax up 7%
The Halifax bank, which is taking over the troubled Equitable Life business, and which also now has ...
Winterthur sells off insurance arm
XL Capital is to acquire Winterthur International, the property and casualty insurance business of Wi...
XL acquires Winterthur International
Bermudian (re)insurer XL Capital is to buy Winterthur International from Winterthur Insurance for $60...
MP lashes out on polarisation.
A senior backbench MP has lashed out over proposals to relax the polarisation regime for retail fina...
20,000 back-dated pension workers lose out.
Up to a third of the 60,000 part-time workers, who won the right to backdated pensions from 1976 in ...
The fine art of insurance.
Robert Hiscox, chairman of Lloyd's insurer Hiscox and art connoisseur, is clearly a man who knows what he wants out of life: he is passionate about change, having championed the introduction of corporate capital to the Lloyd's market; and the Hiscox Art…
Legal aid.
Online claims settlement is attracting attention as it promises a cheaper and more efficient solution to legal disputes. While this may be true, it could be some time yet before e-law completely supersedes the more traditional methods. Simon Threadgold…
More rail claims.
Railtrack faces new compensation claims for £200m as a result of the Hatfield crash. A group of comp...
Former Stock Exchange head becomes chairman of pensions reform body
Sir Nicholas Goodison, a former chairman of the Stock Exchange is to become chairman of the Retiremen...
CIFAS saves £203m from fraud.
CIFAS, the fraud avoidance scheme for the financial services sector, which Direct Line, Royal & Sun ...
Prudential to axe 2000 jobs.
The Prudential, this week, said the introduction of stakeholder pensions and technological developme...