Regulation
Disappointed with the response.
Disappointed with the response of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission (DGIV), the...
In place of strife.
Alternative dispute resolution should suit insurers down to the ground, but how many companies are using it and what are its advantages. Victoria Jordan investigates.
Playing by job-cutting rules.
In the wake of several huge mergers across the European insurance industry, Harriet Eisner explains how the trade union MSF is arguing for changes in the way companies behave towards their staff.
2000 could bring aircraft disasters.
Insurers are warning that planes could crash in 2000 if their technology is non-millennium-compliant...
Archer aims at D&Os.
Archer Underwriting is hoping to hit the target with its new worldwide policy for company managers a...
Counting the pennies.
Cathy Hargreaves and Jamie Randell explain why the threatened removal of VAT group treatment could have a catastrophic effect for insurers.
Still in the dark over stakeholder pensions.
Are we much wiser about the government's plans for stakeholder pensions after the announcements last...
CNA's services bid.
CNA, the fourth largest US property and casualty insurer, has asked the office of thrift supervision...
Rossi calls for Euro market.
Marie-Louise Rossi, the new chief executive designate of the London market association to be created...
Insurers furious at Euro red tape.
European red tape could bind the hands of sellers of non-life insurance. The Association of Briti...
Insurers could reap rewards from attack on bonds.
The budget may have sounded the death knell for highly personalised bonds, but British insurers coul...
Slade to chair FSA Steering Group.
Former insurance ombudsman Laurie Slade has been appointed as chairman of the newly formed Financial...
2000 begins to bug Parliament.
Everyone seems to be waking up the the enormous potential of the millennium bug to cause huge damage...
Big guns call for 'pensions for all'.
Three major insurers have urged the government to bite the bullet and compel people to save for thei...
New trade body, new leader.
The appointment of Marie-Louise Rossi as chief executive of the new, yet-to-be named London market t...
Easing pain of prescription hike.
Western Provident Association is pushing its cash injection policy to help ease the pain of increase...
I'll be back says RSA skipper.
Devastated but determined to try again was the feeling on board the Royal & SunAlliance catamaran th...
Seize moment for change': Merricks.
Insurance ombudsman Walter Merricks urged the government to seize the moment and make "major improve...
Holocaust team will inspect files.
The North American National Association of Insurance Commissioners will send a delegation to inspect...
Bad practice is rife in aviation'.
The head of the Aviation Insurance Offices' Organisation has blamed bad business practice for the di...
Learning from US mistakes.
Michael Harris, managing director of Prudential Banking, warned insurers to learn from the mistakes ...
Legislation spring clean danger.
It looks as if we are in for a very late spring this year if current speculation about the publicati...
ABI slams flood blacklisting.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has hit back at flood experts who claim householders in lo...
All Greek to Generali.
Zurich Insurance has reached an agreement, in principle, to sell Generali its non-life business in G...