Claims
Question time.
Martin Bruffell says the Code of Best Practice on Rehabilitation must be reviewed quickly if its impetus is not to be lost and insurers' in-house initiatives are not to be sidelined.
Clerical Medical calls for premium hike
The proposed maximum premium for life cover within stakeholder schemes should be almost doubled to £3...
Equitable proposal.
Equitable Life has devised an individual pension product in line with the government's stakeholder p...
Man fined for asthma wheeze.
A man who fraudulently claimed on his insurance disability policy has been hit with an $800,000 (£50...
Has the demutualisation tide started to turn?
While Standard Life's rebuttal of the attempt to force it to put demutualisation to its members was ...
A closed door policy?
Simon Threadgold asks if the Access to Justice Act is having the opposite effect to which it was intended.
Rehab scheme comes at a cost.
We fully support the aims of your Rehabilitation First Campaign, although we do share the reservatio...
Holbeck Hall Hotel v Scarborough Borough Council.
22 February 2000 Court of Appeal A hotel which stood at the top of a cliff, owned by the local au...
Penny Black's insurance week.
It seems that Royal & Sun Alliance is not the only company suffering due to the bad weather. Shandwi...
Appointment at Smart & Cook.
Helen Andrews has become the first female director of the board of Smart & Cook. Ms Andrews was mana...
BLM retains position on RSA panel
Law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer has retained its role as a member of Royal and Sun Alliance's commercia...
Cyber-stakeholder.
Legal & General has welcomed the government's decision to allow online applications for stakeholder ...
Appointment at Keogh Ritson Solicitors.
North west law firm Keogh Ritson has made six promotions. Defendant personal injury specialist Micha...
Jaffray case Names finally get day in court.
The long-awaited Jaffray litigation against Lloyd's kicks off in earnest in the High Court on Monday...
Danger of inappropriate terminology.
I write with regard to your story 'Legal Bodies to Slash Costs' (PM 3 February, p11). My company ...
Shoestring advice.
CGU has commited itself to the independent financial adviser networks as a means of selling stakehol...
Best foot forward.
Reinsurance's Lunch Forum on rehabilitation, sponsored by Swiss Re Life & Health, highlighted just how much work UK insurers need to do to catch up with best practice in other countries. Janina Clark reports.
People who need people.
A guest at Reinsurance's recent Lunch Forum on rehabilitation (see p26) made a point pertinent to th...
Britain's managers feel the pressure
A new report by the Institute of Management and PPP Healthcare claims that Britain's managers are fai...
Cost shocker.
Changes to employment laws are increasing the importance of employers' liability cover. However, the...
Rossi hails unstoppable drive.
Marie-Louise Rossi, chief executive at the International Underwriting Association, said she believed...
Post Magazine Rehabilitation First Campaign conference.
A range of views on how to progress on rehabilitation were voiced at the recent Post Magazine Rehabi...
Harris v Bolt Burdon.
2 February 2000 Court of Appeal The claimant sued the defendants for failing to issue medical n...
What the Papers Say.
METRO An insurance claimant came up with a wet excuse for losing his mobile phone - he dropped it...