Regulation
Playing your cards right.
Shane Sayers explains why alternative dispute resolution, as embodied in the Woolf reforms, is the key to saving costs on claims.
Union takes up case of excluded IFAs.
Independent Financial Advisers are being excluded from the industry because of ropey references they...
Four grade II listed buildings caught fire.
Four grade II listed buildings had their chips when a fire swept along an historic terrace in Headco...
Euro body's all-for-one, one-for-all move.
A pan-European insurance industry trade association has moved to block individual countries negotiat...
Y2K lives on.
Only half the brokers surveyed by the Association of British Insurers have confirmed that they are Y...
Protection failing.
Legislation introduced last November to protect holidaymakers from insurance rip-offs by travel agen...
Liver shuts door.
Royal Liver is the latest company to walk away from door-to-door policy selling. The friendly societ...
Call for change.
The civil litigation climate is set to change radically on 26 April. Alex Broad analyses the rationale for Lord Woolf's reforms and their intended impact.
Field staff don't know how to properly use computers.
The mobile computing boom in the insurance world has been held back by inadequate user skills, accor...
Wide of the mark.
Nicolas Holmes explains what the solvency ratio tells us about the financial strength of life insurance companies in the UK, France and Germany.
Hardy hits profit high.
The Hardy Underwriting Group, a corporate player in the aviation and marine markets, has reported a ...
Insurers too powerful'.
Insurers could hold national governments to ransom by threatening to pull out of the country and rel...
Lobby group set up.
An insurance lobby group has been set up to promote the advantages of group protection. Group Insura...
Paddick says GISC hostility is growing.
City of London brokers are rallying against the General Insurance Standards Council, according to th...
Share Watch.
It is a bitter irony of the unit trust industry that it is more profitable to buy the stock of a fun...
Government attacked from all sides over pensions.
The government has failed miserably in its attempts to improve the pensions products of the low paid...
Regulator's dirty dozen list is irresponsible.
The announcement by the Financial Services Authority that it has 12 top financial firms on a hit-lis...
Seminar at CGU headquarters.
Over 100 insurers, charities, local authorities and academics attended a seminar at CGU headquarters...
Penny Black's insurance week.
Penny Black wonders if the deputy director general of the Association of British Insurers, Tony Bake...
Hewitt tries to calm FSA fears.
Economic Secretary Patricia Hewitt has moved to allay fears surrounding the accountability of the Fi...
Reasons to be cheerful ...
The annual Post Magazine conference saw industry experts outline the huge opportunities, rather than problems, facing insurers as they enter the millennium. David Worsfold, Anthony Gould and Francis Higney report.
Providers stare into the abyss.
Concern is mounting over the looming void in pensions provision while we wait for the present regime...
Sunny side up.
Broker transparency - 'operating in the sunshine' - has been top of the agenda for risk managers for the last year. Anthony Gould reports on the latest advances.
Euro review of employment laws.
The European Court of Justice has preliminary ruled on questions relating to an application for a ju...