Regulation
Jumbo headaches.
The launch of Concorde and the first jumbo jets, with their huge hull values and unproven cutting-edge technology, posed a whole new set of problems for insurers, says Eric Alexander.
Insurers blasted for keeping mum.
Life offices have been accused of refusing to tell customers they might get a better deal elsewhere....
Cartel-making claims are wrong and damaging.
I am extremely disappointed to see the way information about the British Damage Management Associati...
Waite watches hull.
The new hull insurance syndicate formed by Thomas Miller, Chartwell and Swiss Re, to be launched in ...
Time squeeze on claims.
New procedures for debt recovery claims inadvertently apply to complex multi-party reinsurance dispu...
All cost, no benefit?
The Woolf reforms imposed extra costs on professional indemnity insurers but Simon Chandler argues that imaginative use of the new rules can bring immediate financial benefits, as a recent case illustrates.
Insurers fail to pass the staff test.
An industry is only as good as the people that work in it and, by inference, as those that are attra...
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,...