Regulation
The IUA's formal lunch.
The International Underwriting Association's chairman designate Tim Carroll called for reforms to th...
Insurance concerns increasingly sprout from Brussels.
One of the most important economic questions at present is the effect of the European Union on the U...
Act to suffer with senator.
Financial services modernisation in the US is expected to suffer following the shock defeat of Repub...
Worker can't escape employer's rights.
In October 1997, the plaintiff entered into negotiations to purchase various undertakings of Barclay...
Industry wins right to genetic data.
The industry has worked hard to win the trust of the government over genetic testing and has succeed...
MSF vows to fight merger job losses.
Union bosses have slammed Norwich Union and ITT London & Edinburgh for announcing 600 job losses wit...
ALM backs byelaws.
The Association of Lloyd's Members is set to oppose a move to axe two byelaws passed in September. O...
Hewitt hits out at IFA Association.
A House of Commons debate last Tuesday on the pensions mis-selling saga saw angry confrontations bet...
EOC in maternity pay row.
In a case involving maternity pay, the applicants were all employees of the Equal Opportunities Comm...
Independent Insurance sponsors under-14s football club.
Edenbridge United Football Club's under-14s are to assert their independence with a new strip for th...
Global climate change conference.
Insurance experts were in Buenos Aires this week to address governments from around the world at the...
Assitalia continues Italian invasion into the capital.
The London market received a further boost this week with the news that Italian insurer Assitalia ha...
Yasuda says software will end fraud.
Claims fraud that costs insurers millions of pounds a year will soon be a thing of the past followin...
A clean sweep on pollution.
Michael Gaughan asks who will have to wake up to new liabilities as the Environment Act begins to bite.
Appointment at Bacon & Woodrow.
John Oliver, former finance director at law firm Eversheds, has joined actuarial consultants Bacon &...
Slump in Citigroup profits.
Citigroup, the new combination of Travelers and Citicorp, has reported a a 50% drop in third quarter...
Appointment at Financial Services Authority.
The FSA has made several appointments. Geoffrey King, most recently group secretary of Guinness, has...
Dissecting insurance for a quarter of a century.
The Geneva Association is celebrating its 25th anniversary this autumn. What's the Geneva Associatio...
Pensions value drops by £12bn.
Some £12bn has been wiped off the value of pooled pensions assets in the last three months. Figur...
Euro to cause Y2K-type crisis.
The insurance industry has been warned to expect an increasing number of mergers, joint ventures and...
Jones gets tough in drive for single IFA representative body.
The Chairman of the IFA Association has turned up the pressure in his bid to see a single profession...
So many questions, but where are the answers?
The debate over broker regulation has, in my view, reached unprecedented levels of bitterness and ac...
Exclusive - Generali Global to open in London.
Italian insurance giant Generali is set to reveal the opening of 'Generali Global' in the UK at a pr...
IFAs can learn from phase 2.
The attempt by the IFA Association to persuade the government to cancel the second phase of the pens...