Analysis
Nailing the fraudsters
Public Sector
Commentary - School not liable for education gap
Abdul Ali v The Head Teacher and Governors of the Lord Grey School (Queen's Bench Division - 27 June 2003)
Caught in the speed trap?
The creation of the IFSC has seen massive growth in the number of insurance companies in Dublin. This has produced a deepened well of local expertise, but Lynn Rouse wonders whether it has it all happened too quickly with the infrastructure creaking…
Moves to curb vexatious litigants
Many of us will have been frustrated in the past when faced by a claimant who has a history of bring...
The best credit money can buy?
Premium Finance
Local authority ruling effects insurer payout
Crookdake v Drury (Queen's Bench Division - 31 July 2003)
Careful choice of experts is essential
Gary Beck v Ministry of Defence (Court of Appeal - 11 June 2003)
Taiwan quake risks studied by RMS
Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has provided the risk analysis for a $100m catastrophe bond issue fo...
Legislation Update - UK companies vulnerable to Sarbanes Oxley
The Sarbanes Oxley Act is still not a name that is familiar in the UK, but the US Act will have an i...
Food for thought
Baden-Baden Preview
India - The chosen one
General Insurance Company is facing the challenge of competing for domestic and international business
Defusing the asbestos time bomb
Asbestos
A question of aggregation
The first of two articles discusses a House of Lords case which considered whether claims could be aggregated
Hurricane Fabian batters Bermuda
Initial estimates of the damage caused by Hurricane Fabian in Bermuda predict that the total bill co...
The elements of risk
Systemic risk
Litigation - Getting to the point
With allegations that thimerosal in vaccines has a causal link with autism, will it be the latest product to test mass tort litigation lawyers?
Singapore - A hub of activity
Despite suffering under the effects of the Sars virus and the war in Iraq, reinsurers are looking forward to calmer days in the Singapore market
California dreaming
There was no fraud in the case of a take-over of a workers' compensation company but failure to disclose could make reinsurance invalid
Global terrorism index gives terror snapshot
The World Markets Research Centre (WMRC) has published the results of its global terrorism index 200...
Swiss Re and MMC to create flood risk solution
Swiss Re has joined forces with leading Czech technology company MultiMedia Computer (MMC) to produc...
LMP Changes - Modernisation of London market continues
With a number of different projects from the London Markets Principles (LMP) programme maturing, the...
Japan - A disaster waiting to happen?
In the aftermath of yet another large natural disaster, would it be a case of sink or swim for Japanese insurers?
Pricing and capacity - Desperately seeking security
The reinsurance market is hardly awash with capacity after the net capital outflow of the last two years, but broadly speaking there is enough