Regulation
Rival to GISC to go ahead.
The Institute of Insurance Brokers is to push ahead with plans to set up a rival regulatory body to ...
... director general of the ABI.
Jane Bernstein met Mary Francis, director general of the Association of British Insurers, and discovered that in this period of shifting attitudes, there is nothing predictable about promoting the industry.
Sink or float?
Specialist marine insurers are under threat as general insurers move into this traditionally niche market. Eric Alexander assesses whether P&I clubs should demutualise to survive the restructuring in this sector.
JLT benefits from getting the Abbey habit.
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group has acquired Abbey National Benefit Consultants as it strives to become...
London market reforms see light of day
London market companies are being asked to sign up to a raft of measures aimed at modernising and str...
Reform package put to London market
London market companies are being asked to sign up to a raft of measures aimed at modernising and str...
Selling out over pensions?
Fifteen years ago, with the pensions misselling debacle just around the corner, the insurance indust...
Pay back time?
Three million homeowners have endowment policies which will fail to repay their mortgage, according ...
Eureko eyes up Equitable.
Pan-European insurance group Eureko has expressed an interest in bidding for Equitable Life as it lo...
Concern over polarisation plans.
An announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown last week that the government is conside...
Lloyd's double for MMT.
New London market consultant MMT Management Consultancy is on track to double in size over the next ...
ESG Re posts "disappointing" results
Bemuda-based ESG Re has announced a loss of $34.3m for the third quarter of the year. The company ...
Eureko believed to be considering Equitable bid
CGNU has pulled out of the auction for Equitable Life according to reports in the weekend media, leav...
Annual PI seminar.
City law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain is today hosting its fifth annual professional indemnity s...
Williams: no rules were bent.
The article in "Penny Blacks' insurance week" (PM, 14 September, p64) has, at last, has been drawn t...
FSA: new task force.
The FSA is establishing a new task force to examine the use of past performance in the advertising o...
Sadhu appointment.
Accident management group Auto Indemnity has appointed David Sadhu as operations director. Mr Sadhu ...
GISC: the listening regulator.
I would like to add my support to the views expressed by Mike Slack (PM, 2 November, p16). The term ...
No longer any place for skilled workers?
I am not convinced that employers give any thought to maintaining a truly professional work force gi...
Cotesworth set to merge syndicates.
Lloyd's managing agency Cotesworth is to merge its marine and non-marine syndicates for the 2001 yea...
Bupa shuns Mediquote.
Despite being unable to sign up Bupa or Western Provident Association to its private medical insuran...
BCC: Prudent stakes.
Prudential has been chosen by the British Chamber of Commerce to be its preferred provider of stakeh...
Marlborough Stirling in European move
UK e-commerce specialist, Marlborough Stirling, has taken its first major step into Europe with multi...
Zurich banks on net.
Swiss insurer Zurich is set to launch an internet banking service Zurich Bank later this month. Zuri...