Regulation
Risk booklet published.
The Institute of Actuaries and the Institution of Civil Engineers have produced a booklet which they...
Our best yet': Dell Dell.
Computer Corporation released the most powerful computer it has ever produced, offering enhanced sys...
Claim implications mushroom.
Proposed reforms to the Product Liability Directive have major implications for insurers as Christopher Hodges explains.
Sony set to become big noise in non-life insurance.
Electronics giant Sony has unveiled extensive plans to establish a non-life insurance operation in J...
Quality by name hopes to breed quality by nature.
Call Centre agents' performances are set to dramatically improve following the development of a moni...
Policies break new grounds on the sporting front.
B&CE Insurance has certainly put the cat among the personal accident pigeons when it comes to coveri...
Best celebrates first birthday with new takeover.
Ratings agency AM Best UK's first birthday cocktail party turned into a double celebration last week...
Row over Japan's 'closed' market.
Relations between US and Japanese traders have been damaged following American officials accusing th...
How 'high-handed' rating agency lost us business.
I am not surprised that the Comite Europeen des Assurances has criticised ratings agencies for their...
Practitioners get voice on FSA.
The Financial Services Authority is in the process of setting up a Practitioner Forum in response to...
Sculpture dissolves into the River Humber.
A £60,000 sculpture, part of a major exhibition and insured by Hiscox, has dissolved into the River ...
Poor advice given to industry employees.
While visiting the Millennium Dome, Institute of Insurance Brokers' director general Andrew Paddick ...
Real IPT danger may be lost among scare stories.
The row about the imposition of higher rate Insurance Premium Tax on travel insurance, extended warr...
Bitterness increases over premium taxes.
The German Insurance Association (Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicheringswirtshaft) is stepping up...
Lloyd's backs 1999 conversion scheme.
Lloyd's has given approval for the first members' agent 1999 Names Conversion Scheme. The scheme,...
Exclusive - London and Lloyd's link-up.
Eurobase Systems has launched a set of tools designed to simplify the process of unifying the IT sys...
Ratings sail into firing line over US bias.
When Jacques Leglu last week launched a broadside against ratings agencies it seemed he struck a chord with many Euro insurers. But David Worsfold finds some UK firms are wondering what all the fuss is about.
Learning scheme hailed a success.
Engineering insurer Eagle Star has launched a distance learning scheme for training brokers. The ...
FSA to delay new pensions review decision.
The FSA has announced it is to seek further consultation on contentious rebate-only cases in Phase 2...
Tobacco bill stubbed out.
The senate tobacco bill aimed at endorsing a deal between tobacco manufacturers and the States has b...
The smaller they come the harder they fall.
Japan's financial deregulation 'Big Bang' is proving to be a damp squib for some of the country's me...
Luck of the Irish eluded some in '97.
The Irish Insurance Federation's life and non-life member companies suffered a year of sharp contras...
Promotion for Fiore.
Australian reinsurer Sydney Re has promoted James Fiore to senior vice-president and chief underwrit...
Lightening the load.
With the need for efficiency paramount in the current soft market, brokers should consider the benefits of outsourcing, argues Nick Eddery-Joel.