Regulation
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...
Tobacco firms' joy at jury's decision.
US tobacco company insurers were celebrating last week after a jury dismissed all charges relating t...
Card cover wrangle.
A taxpayer offered credit card holders, on payment of a sum, a plan to protect them against financia...
Eurobase eases maintainence load.
Eurobase has unveiled business application software designed to allow companies to outsource the sup...
Show and tell.
The Life Insurance Association has recommended its members show only one set of qualifications on th...
Pensions: a case of too many cooks.
The government's well-intentioned pensions reform has become stuck in a mire of confusion. Francis Higney asks if it has become a case of too much, too soon.
FSA committee limits scope.
The select committee examining the Financial Services and Markets Bill has set itself a six-point ag...
Broker acts on transparency.
Brokers have been urged to follow Aon Risk Services' example and adopt a code of conduct over busine...