Regulation
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...
ABI welcomes deadline for second phase of pensions review.
The Association of British Insurers has welcomed the Financial Service Authority's timetable for pha...
Testing times.
The insurance industry's bid last week to reassure the public over genetic testing seemed to fall on...
Court could sanction reinsurance transfer.
The court had jurisdiction to sanction a scheme whereby a reinsurer transferred its entire reinsuran...
Prudential determined to crack Egg.
The launch of the Egg direct banking banking arm has made a dent in the Prudential Corporation's pro...
Appointmant at Midland Personal Financial Services.
Phil Sellers has been made chief operating officer for the general insurance arm of Midland Personal...
Conversion results.
Christine Brockbank Shipton, one of the largest Lloyd's members' agents, has announced the results o...
Calculator set to be a plus.
Life insurer Clerical Medical has set up a critical yield calculator on its website which it claims ...
Oughtred & Harrison.
Hull broker Oughtred & Harrison has made its fifth acquisition of the year by buying Lincoln broker ...
New design for Swiss Re's London offices.
This is Sir Norman Foster's radical new design for Swiss Re's London offices, on the site of the old...
Exclusive - Law firm's blueprint to slash costs.
Law firm Davies Arnold Cooper has launched a pilot case conferencing study with Independent Insuranc...
Firms unite to master disaster.
Disaster recovery and restoration companies are uniting in order to set a unified benchmark for comp...
Internet ignored.
Insurers are ignoring customer requests for information on the Internet, according to a recent surve...
FSA to get first look at demutualisation plans.
The decision by insurance companies to demutualise is to be dependent on policyholders and the will ...
US Pru fined $20m.
Prudential Insurance of America has been hit with a massive fine of $20m (£12m) by the National Asso...
New age ideas.
The government's response to Professor Sir Stewart Sutherland's report on long-term care was somewhat muted. Veronica Cowan met him to find out his thoughts on the matter.