Regulation
Turning the tide.
Delegates at this year's IUMI conference in London were urged to take action on rates. Eric Alexander reports on the wake-up calls to the industry.
PWC tax comparison.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has published its third edition of the International Comparison of Insurance ...
Non-life rates set to rise strongly, says Swiss Re.
Swiss Re is benefiting from rate increases in its non-life business and expects rates to rise at lev...
Conventional wisdom.
European law continues to have an effect on reinsurance cases. John Butler considers the issues relating to the Brussels Convention in Group Josi v Universal General.
Quality, claims & customers programme.
30 November 2000 One Great George Street, W1 Chairman's welcome David Worsfold, editor-in-ch...
R V South Bank University, ex parte Coggeran.
Court of Appeal 18 August 2000 The Court of Appeal considered the situation where more than one...
Mortgage fears over.
The Association of British Insurers has welcomed the Financial Services Authority's decision that th...
GISC: transparency aim.
Steve Barrow, head of monitoring at the General Insurance Standards Council, used a seminar on regul...
UI awaits bids for joint venture.
United India Insurance is due to receive bid offers from consultants tomorrow as part of its plans t...
Right track for CII.
Reg Brown, CII president, opened the conference by underlining his theme for the past year, "Only th...
Appointment at Tillinghast-Towers Perrin.
Vaughan Jenkins has been taken on as a consultant within the financial services practice at actuaria...
Claims is no longer core.
Change, technology and combining the two were constant themes at this year's Chartered Insurance Institute Conference. Post Magazine was there.
Aloof and arrogant.
The CII is set to produce a plan to address the problem of declining membership, according to its in...
Modern framework.
Introducing the annual report, president Reg Brown said that the conclusion of the four-year-long de...
Mivtach snapped up by Migdal.
Israel's Migdal Insurance, one of that country's largest insurers, is to acquire Mivtach Shamir Insu...
Mediation service agreed.
Insurers are expected to benefit from a new contract mediation service, launched this week, which is...
Air France suing.
Air France and its insurers, represented by the consortium La Reunion Aerienne, are to sue Continent...
WeCanSettle.com for blind bidding.
A fast-track, round the clock online "blind bidding" service, WeCanSettle.com, designed by two pract...
Ogden Tables need fatal clarification
The fourth edition of the Ogden tables, published today, which provide a guide for the courts in asse...
Lloyd's drive stuck in traffic with no one at steering wheel.
Lloyd's is once again in the spotlight, following a tranche of poor results from the likes of Kiln, ...
Lack of action will cost insurers.
Insurer's lack of action and the use of outmoded technology may cost them business and unnecessary e...
Continental drift.
The recent petrol rows that erupted across Europe will have awakened many hauliers to the advantages of working on the Continent. David William believes insurers should brush up on their knowledge of overseas cover.
Chinese Axa issues writ.
French insurer Axa's Chinese operation has issued a writ against Pacific Century Insurance and nine ...
Healthy link up.
An internet company has teamed up with Pinnacle Insurance to launch a new medical cash plan. The Med...