Claims
Snap, tackle and op.
Liability law has extended its net to catch more and more sports. Jonathan Swift goes fishing for the facts.
Commercial business heats up.
Corporate court cases are on the increase throughout the UK. This is opening up fresh opportunities for commercial legal expenses insurers, who are showing innovation in a busy market, as Kevin Pratt explains.
Future of SOFA still not sitting comfortably.
The future direction for the Society of Financial Advisers is still uncertain despite a comprehensiv...
Names force EGM over council representation.
A group of 600 Names has forced Lloyd's to call an extraordinary general meeting to vote on the futu...
Tig seeks a buyer.
Tig Holdings, parent company of Tig Re, could be sold following unexpected losses as a result of rei...
Just the job or just a job?
How satisfied are staff with their current jobs?
Appointment at The Quest gates Partnership.
Alistair Lornie has joined the Quest gates Partnership in Harrogate. He has worked within the adj...
Full marks for presentation, but what about the content?
Government, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is 'the system or method of governing'. But Mark Boleat, director general of the Association of British Insurers, asks if New Labour is more interested in how it looks than what it does.
Born in the USA.
A fact-finding trip to America resulted in AIG revolutionising the field of employer's liability claims. Jonathan Swift talks to the award-winning team which rehabilitates, not procrastinates.
Heard the one about the deaf traffic cop?
Think of an occupational injury, and total or partial deafness does not always spring to mind. Yet as Ken Cannar reports, legislation in the past decade has seen the number of cases rising.
UK firms: profits healthy.
UK companies are effectively combating the economics slowdown by shedding jobs and scaling down inve...
Mortgage rate cuts.
Wesleyan Home Loans has reduced the interest on its variable rate mortgage from 8.59% to 8.10% (8.5%...
Commentary - Bang bang, you're deaf.
A report in the US showbusiness journal Variety Daily suggested that blockbuster movies featuring sh...
Core service offers commercial key.
Should commercial claims handling be kept indoors or entrusted to outside help? Steve Banner finds out.
Experian signs deal.
Experian will host databases of insurance claims information for the whole industry, following the s...
Personal injury claims to rocket.
The insurance industry has been told to expect millions of pounds worth of backlogged personal injur...
Of course millennium problems are forseeable.
I read Ian Drewer's attack on the Association of British Insurers' exclusions with a certain degree ...
A heart chorus of 'good riddance'.
The insurance industry does not appear to be shedding any tears over the prospect of stakeholder pen...
No point crying over spilt cream.
The Central London County Court recently held that a shopper could not be held liable to another sho...
Three into one will go.
NLA and DWM insurance groups have now been merged with subsidiary Clayton Bishop under the name Mill...
Friends boosts ethical range.
Friends Provident has added a number of new services to its ethical investment range - an area in wh...
GRE's Y2K check.
To make sure that its computer systems are in order for the millennium Guardian Royal Exchange is ge...
IFA's peace-of-mind policy.
IFA Portfolio has a new unemployment and disability mortgage protection policy. 'Mortgageguard' p...
Face to face with python
A broker which insures people tying the knot - rather than those being tied in a knot - had a slippery surprise last week