Regulation
GISC to revisit solvency concerns of brokers.
The recently launched General Insurance Standards Council will address the issue of solvency require...
EU's plan for sector.
The European Union plans to review how to manage a single market in financial services by establishi...
Insurers face $3bn payouts.
Insurers face multi-billion payouts if a petition filed in the US state of California linked to the ...
Part-timers clock up more rights.
Changes to the rules governing part-time workers could catch some businesses un-awares if they don't know the pitfalls, says John McQueen.
Stop this slide into subsidence madness.
The Association of British Insurers and loss/risk consultants Resolve International seem agreed that...
Insurers to tender for football cover.
Insurers are to be asked to tender for a compulsory national scheme to provide public liability and ...
Stakeholder u-turn welcomed.
Insurers have welcomed the Treasury's decision not to exclude occupational pension scheme members fr...
In sector Norse.
Over 360 firms were active in Norway's insurance sector at the end of 1999, including 67 insurers, a...
Last gasp bid to stall Finance Bill.
Insurance trade bodies have made a last minute combined bid to stall the enactment of a clause in th...
If polarisation ain't broke, don't fix it, says Hunt.
The Association of Independent Financial Advisers has warned the Financial Services Authority that w...
St Paul Re management changes
New York-based St Paul Re is reshuffling its management and creating a separate financial solutions u...
GISC rule ammendments
The General Insurance Standards Council has issued a number of amendments to its rule book - due for ...
Bancassurance exposes culture clash says FSA
Bancassurance developments should be watched carefully, Howard Davies, chairman of the Financial Serv...
RSA e-procurement gets green light
Insurer Royal & Sun Alliance has completed the first phase of an e-procurement system designed to sav...
Overseas business accounts for a quarter of UK insurance premiums
Nearly £30bn ($45.5bn), or about 25%, of total UK insurance sector gross premiums came from overseas ...
Online aircraft coverage for brokers
A fully interactive online aircraft insurance website - aeroinsure.com - has been launched by special...
Frankel sentenced.
A German state court has sentenced US bond trader Martin Frankel to three years in prison following ...
Appointment at The Mortgage Compliance Board.
Richard Fox has been made compliance director of watchdog the Mortgage Code Compliance Board. He joi...
No chuckles left for Chuck.
California's insurance commissioner Chuck Quackenbush resigned last week rather than testify under o...
The opening at Prudential's listing ceremony.
The opening bell at Prudential's listing ceremony, on 28 June, on the New York Stock Exchange. Those...
Eureko seeks new UK partner.
A pan-European consortium of insurers could seek a new UK partner for its fledgling financial servic...
Insurers welcome stakeholder step down
Insurers have welcomed the government's decision not to exclude occupational pension scheme members f...
LPC sale is on the horizon.
The sale of the London Processing Centre could happen within months following the Annual General Mee...
Policies cancelled.
Letters of cancellation are to go out to 35 000 doomed Drake Insurance policyholders tomorrow with t...