Regulation
Striking while the iron's hot.
Tim Carroll is wasting no time in setting an agenda for the International Underwriting Association of London. Janina Clark hears his plans.
Time to put the house in order.
Economic upheaval has uncovered serious flaws in South Korea's insurance industry, reports Jeremy Golden.
FSA consults on future Lloyd's regulation.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK's new super-regulator, will make policyholder protect...
P&I cat costs fall again.
For the fifth year in succession, the world's shipowners are to benefit from a significant reduction...
Nordic firms raise doubts at Moody's.
Rating agency Moody's has given good insurance financial strength ratings to two Scandinavian reinsu...
Penny Black's insurance week.
It's been a busy week in the insurance world and while the insurance party season has yet to get und...
EU pledges to make roads safer.
EU transport commissioner Neil Kinnock this week outlined EU plans to make Europe's roads safer. The...
Share watch.
They say that two heads are better than one, but the merger of Royal Insurance and Sun Alliance clea...
When bigger is definitely not better.
Speculation about the possibility of Royal & Sun Alliance successfully bidding for Guardian Royal Ex...
Claims must come under GISC's remit.
The insurance ombudsman has called upon the General Insurance Standards Council to widen its scope t...
IFAs beating direct teams in life and pensions stakes.
Direct sales forces continue to perform poorly compared to independent financial advisers (IFAs) and...
A marine market watershed.
The centre of gravity of the London marine market shifted back to Lloyd's last week with CGU arrivin...
CGU gives Lloyd's marine boost.
CGU has switched its marine underwriting operation from the company market into Lloyd's, citing the ...
Men staying on this mortal coil for longer.
Male mortality is improving faster than female, according to recent figures from the Faculty & Insti...
Finn end of the wedge.
Finland is to get a new insurance industry regulator in the spring. From April, the Insurance Superv...
Health cost charges threat to car insurance.
The Government has pledged to carry out a six-monthly review of the recovery of hospital treatment c...
Take note of IBRC's new allies.
As long-time campaigners for greater openness on the part of the Insurance Brokers Registration Coun...
Axa and the Pru more than pleased with '98 business results.
Prudential and Axa Sun Life announced increases in business for last year amid the message that the ...
Long term split cheers insurers.
Speculation that the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly is to recommend splitting nu...
Principles, not personalties, will win the regulatory day.
I am concerned to read your editorial (Two heads are better than one, PM, 14 Jan, p19) in which you ...
Let's hear it for adjusting's finer points.
Never have I read such a wide-ranging diatribe that displayed such appalling ignorance and prejudice...
Regulator in row with IBRC over £185,000.
The Insurance Brokers' Registration Council is at loggerheads with the insurance industry regulator ...
Danes go for brokers.
A Bill currently being debated in the Danish Parliament will require insurance brokers to be registe...
Looking for innovation.
The engineering industry may be a fraction of its former size, but as Simon Threadgold discovers, there are still many business opportunities for engineering insurers.