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Market moves: MGAs the main movers as three firms make new hires
While the Managing General Agents Association made the trade press this week, MGAs followed suit with several new hires at Pioneer Underwriting, Asta and Sagicor at Lloyd's.
Your say: Changing deafness climate
Tom Jones’s recent article (‘Selective insurer hearing’) suggests the insurance industry is turning on deafness claims in a ‘let’s bash the victim’ onslaught, with the prime aim of protecting funds at the expense of the injured.
Workplace Stress: Under pressure
With an estimated 18 000 financial services employees taking time off work due to stress in 2011, how can companies protect themselves in financially fraught times?
RTA Portal extension: Delivering swift justice
The extension of the road traffic accident claims portal has met with mixed reactions, with concerns over the practicalities involved and how it will affect the personal injury market.
Weightmans grows by a third on mergers
National law firm Weightmans has reported turnover up by a third (£19.1m) to £77.1m for the 2011/2012 financial year (2010/11: £58m).
Weightmans wins fraud and claims contract on MIB legal panel
Weightmans law firm has become the Motor Insurance Bureau's legal services supplier for core claims and fraud following a strategic review by the association.
Market moves: Ace makes four top appointments
While Aviva stole the headlines with a restructuring of its management team, Ace led a similar revamp in the recruitment sector this week.
Weightmans hires ex-copper as fraud lead
National law firm Weightmans has named former policeman and soldier Scott Bowers from law firm Browne Jacobson as head of fraud business development.
Weightmans queries H&S law bonfire
Law firm Weightmans has claimed government plans to scrap 84% of health and safety regulation will mainly involve archaic and unused laws, having little impact on insurers.
Post Blog: Redknapp, bad weather and PI policies
Alongside Harry Redknapp and adverse weather, the unlikely hot topic of aggregation clauses in professional indemnity policies is hotly debated in insurance circles.
Crash fraudster jailed after being filmed 'working out'
A devious fraudster who attempted to claim £2.3m from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau after misleading medical professionals following a crash that claimed two lives has been jailed.
Judge rules on National Trust negligence case
A High Court judge has ruled that the National Trust was not to blame for the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy fatally crushed by a branch in woods in Norfolk.
Comment - Referral fees: Make your mind up time
As the debate over the future of referral fees rumbles on, it is time for the government to make its decision or risk creating confusion over its civil justice reform programme, writes Kate Lotts.
Inflatable standards urged
Insurers have been urged to introduce new cover pre-requisites for inflatable amusements, after three children were injured when the bouncy castle they were playing on at a hotel in North Yorkshire came loose from its moorings and hit a telegraph pole.
People moves - 19 May 2011
A round-up of people moves and new appointments in the industry, as featured in the 19 May 2011 edition of Post.
Legal update - clinical negligence: substantial speculation
A recent future loss of earnings case saw the claimant awarded substantial damages for a business they had not even started. Clare Malpus reports on the insurer implications.
Legal update - product liability: contractual obligations
The recent case of Omega Proteins v Aspen Insurance UK raised an interesting issue for product liability insurers and liability insurers generally. Colin Peck reviews the case and its potential implications.
People moves – 28 April 2011
A round-up of people moves and new appointments in the industry, as featured in the 28 April 2011 edition of Post.
EL insurers celebrate appeal victory
Employers' liability insurers have avoided claims worth "hundreds of millions" of pounds following a successful appeal in Baker v Quantum, law firm Weightmans has claimed.
Personal injury fraudster jailed
A man who made a £1.35m claim for damages for injuries in a car crashhas been jailed for a year after a court found him guilty of contempt of court.
RBSI claims director joins Weightmans
Weightmans boosted its insurance offering with the appointment of Kate Lotts to the newly created role of head of policy development (insurance).
Motor claims: Can insurers stem the rising cost of whiplash claims?
With 93% of GPs seeing patients they believe to have exaggerated injuries in order to make a claim, Leigh Jackson asks how insurers can stem the rising cost of whiplash cases.
Legal update - surveyors: Fighting back
As lenders attempt to claw back shortfalls in their security, Robert Crossingham explains how surveyors and their insurers are fighting the banks at their own game.
Legal update - NHS recvoery scheme: Getting cash back
New tariffs introduced this year for the Injury Cost Recovery scheme have the potential to impact insurers. Peter Forshaw examines fears that the scheme may be extended further.