Legislation
News analysis: Financial Services Bill - Nuts and bolts
The Financial Services Bill is going through the legilslative process. Daniel Preddy and Martin Langley explain why more debate is needed about some of the proposals.
Environmental liability update: Small impact?
With the Environmental Liability Directive finally becoming law in the UK last March, Alan Dobson examines whether its effect has been as hard hitting as predicted.
Industry welcomes exception in Equality Bill
The insurance industry has welcomed a decision to allow insurers to continue using age as a risk factor in setting premiums.
Healthcare bill to bar insurers from denying coverage – Obama
Obama says healthcare bill will bar insurers from denying coverage to those with existing illnesses, terminating coverage for those who become ill, or charging “exorbitant premiums” on the basis of age or gender
Mexico made simple
Concerns about regulating reinsurance contracts continue to deter potential entrants to the Mexican market, write Yves Hayaux-du-Tilly and Carlos Fan.
Woolf issues contingency fees warning
Move to US-style fee structure could "destroy professional standards"
Shaken and stirred
Despite the global downturn Japan's reinsurance market is still very stable, says Jeremy Golden but its new government's policies on healthcare and earthquakes may increase international cover needs
Legal eagle
Katherine Blackler talks to Alan Levin, a partner specialising in (re)insurance law at US firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, about his career and the challenges facing the reinsurance market.
US: Chinese drywall makers may ignore lawsuits
Lawyers say they expect Chinese companies that made the wallboard to ignore hundreds of lawsuits filed against them in US courts.
Showing its teeth
Contrary to predictions, one of the first major judgments to consider the issue of 'desirable activity' has arisen in the employer context. Paula Jefferson explains.