Claims
Facing up to claims reality
With asbestos-related disease claims expected for another 40 years, what, asks Lex Dowie, will happen to future claimants when the compensation pot is found to be empty?
Going to waste?
A new directive concerning the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment is likely to have a big impact on the way the insurance industry handles claims and its replacement goods strategies. Bob Still investigates.
RSA: where is fine found?
I have just read that the Financial Services Authority has again fined Royal & Sun Alliance £950,000...
Indemnity crisis?
It is vital to examine the relationship between demand and affordability of professional liability cover and target your market carefully, writes Veronica Cowan.
Film case down to interpretation - HIH Casualty v Chase Manhattan
(House of Lords - 20 February 2003) The financing of film production is a risky business. When Cha...
Action needed to recover costs
Insurers should be more proactive in pursuing local authorities for recovery of costs involved in s...
Berkeley Burke launches PI arm
Ambitious provincial broker Berkeley Burke has set up a new professional indemnity and risks subsid...
No promise of childcare costs even if claimant is disabled.
Damages are not recoverable to compensate for any of the costs of rearing a healthy child - even whe...
TUC calls for higher rates of compensation.
Compensation levels should increase dramatically, Brendan Barber, general secretary elect, Trades Un...
Dual insurers: responsibility not always split in two.
Drake Insurance v Provident Insurance (Queen's Bench Division - 3 February 2003).
Medicals Direct targets Europe in expansion plans.
Eighteen months of aggressive growth, including expansion into European underwriting markets, is on ...
Legal expenses set for shake-up.
The UK legal expenses market is set for a shake-up, with two new players set to go head-to-head with...
Chaucer seeks £40m boost through rights issue.
Expansionist Lloyd's insurer Chaucer is planning to raise £40m on the stock exchange in order to boo...
Final chance for Names.
A group of disaffected Lloyd's Names will discover today whether they can sue the Society of Lloyd's...
Future of union role questioned
It is pleasing to see that my recent article, Just the job (Post Magazine, 27 March) has provoked a...
AMA seeks review of credit hire rates
The Accident Management Association has called for higher rates when the Association of British Ins...
Following EL into orbit?
The media has reported a growing crisis in the public liability market, with past underpricing and increasingly expensive claims sending premiums rocketing at the same rate as those for employer's liability. Insurers are understandably circumspect, as…
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer
Berrymans Lace Mawer has created eight new partners, bringing the national partnership total to 79....
ASP recovery service launch
Figtree Systems has launched a business continuity service, following a client study that revealed ...
GAB seals Big Mac claims deal
Loss adjuster GAB Robins has won a multi-million-pound contract to manage the global claims for fas...
Fraud: educated males most likely
New figures from the Association of British Insurers show that one in five people commit fraud beca...
It's time to address attitudes to trade unions
Paul Picknett of Groupama, (Just the job, Post Magazine, 27 March, p28) queries the role of trade u...
Study leaves rehab at a standstill
The Association of British Insurers/International Underwriting Association's third UK Bodily Injury A...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny was wined and dined last week at the annual Chartered Insurance Institute's president's dinne...