Regulation
Europe tops life insurance league
The European Union has overtaken Japan to become the world's largest market for life insurance. Stati...
European life sector increases despite falling premiums.
The Comite Europeen des Assurances will reveal today that growth in European life premium volume slow...
Peers backdown over long-term care insurance
Rebel Peers have backed down over the issue of the regulation of long-term care insurance following g...
Exclusive - Ark hunts for partners.
Ark & General is seeking up to six insurance consortium partners to take a significant equity stake ...
Financial advisers hit back at damning results of poll.
The regulator has "a tough job" to improve consumers' confidence in financial advisers. This is t...
Exclusive - Treasury bombshell.
The Treasury has insisted that the Code of Practice for general insurance intermediaries will be mai...
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Through the Internet maze with Richard Griffiths.
... a Member of Parliament.
David Worsfold spent a day with Ivor Caplin MP, a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services.
Pensions funds at risk from dot.com frenzy.
The dot.com equity frenzy currently sweeping global markets could have a disastrous impact on pensio...
What's the damage on damages.
Damages set to rise ... again. Looking back to Post Magazine 15 years ago, 14 March 1985, the insura...
Broker sets up risk service.
A new risk management service has been launched by broker Alan Boswell. The service is designed to e...
Suits you, sir.
Simon Threadgold explains why directors' and officers' cover is becoming more attractive, with more and more underwriters muscling-in on the market.
Irish base for software flagship.
The Prudential Insurance Company of America has announced a flagship investment to establish a softw...
GISC makes good use of time delays.
The General Insurance Standards Council took an important step forward this week with confirmation t...
egg's supermarket.
Prudential's online bank egg has launched an ISA and investment 'supermarket.' The site provides acc...
Industry keeps up LTC pressure as Lords vote.
The House of Lords is expected to vote in favour today of statutory regulation of long-term care ins...
Zurich appoints new UK managing director
Zurich Financial Services UK has appointed Geoff Riddell as managing director with responsibility for...
GISC to start in July
The General Insurance Standards Council has confirmed it will start operations at the beginning of Ju...
MAAF boost.
Europe's biggest motor insurer, France's MAAF Assurances, is to become the eighth member of the pan-...
Aon thinks big on back of office opening.
Aon is planning to expand in Scotland on the back of a new Edinburgh office and a possible acquisiti...
£6bn bid for Aetna.
Troubled US health insurer Aetna is the subject of an unsolicited $10.3bn (£6.2bn) takeover bid. ...
Censure and fine for Clowes.
City broker TL Clowes and Company has been censured and fined £25,000 by Lloyd's for acts of miscond...
Names claim fraud.
The Lloyd's trial got underway in earnest this week with Names' QC Simon Goldblatt saying they were ...
Kiln launch pet travel insurance after introduction of Pet Passports.
No shaggy-dog stories at Lloyd's this week, as Kiln launched the first online pet travel insurance f...