Regulation
The task of Porro.
Swiss Re's head of risk and reinsurance, Bruno Porro, talks to Adrian Leonard about the group's approach to the new set of problems facing reinsurers.
East is east and west is west.
Deals between eastern and western insurers are rare compared with those in the banking sector. Jeremy Golden finds out why.
Aon welcomes full disclosure from Bupa.
Aon Consulting has welcomed health insurer Bupa's move to fully disclose commissions on all large co...
LPC's new system.
The London Processing Centre has introduced a central settlement system that allows companies and br...
How would you like your stake?
The answer is well-done if your talking about stakeholder pensions, because, as Francis Higney reports, any half-baked pension provision could only mean another radical shake-up in a few years.
Lords decide bank not guilty of discrimination.
A woman worked for Midland Bank from 2 July 1979. She worked full-time until taking maternity leave....
CGU axes trio from its panel.
CGU has axed three companies from its loss adjusting panel - McLarens Toplis, Cunningham Ellis & Buc...
Eastern promise of the Orient.
European insurers are looking to Asia for new business opportunities. Companies like Axa, Allianz...
Listen and earn.
US insurers are paying more to try and get the ear of government. New figures show lobbying of US le...
£240m bill stuns sector.
The life industry has been left reeling by news that the regulator suspects compensation of up to £2...
Equitas results.
Equitas, the Lloyd's company set up to reinsure and run off pre-1992 non-life liabilities, has annou...
Spain will answer to the European Court.
Spain will answer to the European Court for violation of rules on the Single Insurance Market. The E...
Aon in fine shape after healthcare acquisition.
Aon Risk Services has strengthened its operation with the acquisition of Finsbury Healthcare. Fin...
Fidelity to buy rival.
Two property insurers have cemented an agreement whereby California-based Fidelity National has agre...
Going Dutch.
The Netherlands has almost no State-provided welfare benefits and insurers are forming alliances to cash-in on the population's need for cover. Damien Regent reports.
The Bright stuff.
His winning this year of the British Insurance Achievement Award proved Michael Bright has got what it takes to turn himself and his company, Independent, into one of the industry's success stories.
Irrational' actions will sink companies, warns analyst.
Insurers could go the wall in the wake of the reform of the California workers' compensation market,...
Lloyd's hopes for bumper tax rebate.
Lloyd's corporate and individual members could be in line to receive a £350m rebate from the Inland ...
Prudential defends itself in pay row.
Prudential has been in the dock all week answering charges that it failed to consult workers over ch...
Proposals are dead in the water.
It is hard to recall such a universal thumbs down for a report from the Office of Fair Trading as ha...
One step forward, two steps back ...
Is that what the Office of Fair Trading has recommended in its controversial report into polarisation, asks Francis Higney?
Euro quintet in Holocaust row.
A row in California over Holocaust payouts could see five European insurers face sanctions and their...
Insurers want long-term care solution.
I would like to take issue with some of the views expressed by Sir Stewart Sutherland, chairman of t...
More Room at Ace.
Ace Global Markets - one of the largest managing agency groups within the Lloyd's market - is scrapp...