Regulation
Firms warming to pro-active risk strategies.
New research has revealed companies are increasingly recognising the importance of pro-active risk i...
Brokers barred.
Shanghai has barred 38 insurance brokers from plying their trade for irregularities. Most of those p...
New marketing group.
Former Albany International and Irish Life International chief executive Vincent Patterson has revea...
Appointment at Swiss Life.
Richard Davison joins Swiss Life as a member of the Employment Benefits business unit management tea...
Lib Dems fly compulsion flag.
The case for a compulsory second tier pensions scheme is building up a formidable head of steam. The...
Second buy in a month for broker.
Hull-based broker Oughtred & Harrison is driving ahead with its expansion policy and has announced i...
Regulations and logistics stall 'mini' Lloyd's in Singapore.
The planned opening of a "mini" Lloyd's operation in Singapore has been put back by seven months aft...
Insurance Directorate outlines to Parliament switch from DTI to FSA.
The Insurance Directorate laid out its latest report before Parliament on Monday outlining the major...
Frosty reception for ISAs.
Francis Higney and David Worsfold find out why the government's Individual Savings Accounts have not been welcomed with open arms.
Best-of-both-worlds proposal won't work': SIF.
The Solicitors' Indemnity Fund has claimed that plans for it to compete in tandem with the commercia...
Bankers Trust in unit sell-off deal with reinsurer.
Bankers Trust is to sell its insurance units to Rhine Re, the Switzerland and Bermuda-based reinsure...
ILU/LIRMA deal still on': Funnell.
Tony Funnel, chief executive of the ILU has confirmed the date for the Institute's merger with LIRMA...
It pays to be in general.
As actuaries make their mark in general insurance Dr Geraldine Kaye takes a look at the financial incentives.
Appointment at Putsmans Solicitors.
Julia Holden has been appointed as head of Putsmans' personal injury department to spearhead a major...
An ACE engineering idea.
ACE Engineering Insurance has produced a handy reference tool to help brokers advise clients on engi...
Risks prove a moving target.
As more risk is handled in-house by both private and public organisations and companies expand their...
Adding value top of the marine agenda.
Alex Broad reports from the annual IUMI Conference, this year being held in Lisbon. She discovers that while delegates had little to smile about, marine insurance chiefs had some ideas about how to steer the sector out of its crisis.
Future still bleak for international hull market.
The international hull market is showing no signs of an upturn according to Peter Chrismas, chairman...
Partnership will give brokers an edge.
A unique agreement between a software house and an actuarial firm will see brokers and intermediarie...
Court in the ACT.
Are insurers better off when a case goes to trial? David Turner and Lyndi Hughes find out.
A professional response to risk.
As the Institute of Risk Management prepares to host its eighth annual conference, Alex Broad talks to the Institute's chairman Roger Cottell.
Exclusive - CII calls crisis meeting on regulation.
There will be an emergency session on broker regulation at the Chartered Insurance Institute annual ...
Lloyd's job loss is sign of the times.
The news that Lloyd's has felt able to dispense with the services of a public affairs manager is an ...
Claims handling.
Accident repairers PHH has launched Cendant Claims Plus to replace PHH Insurer Services and PHH Acci...