Claims
Millennium plans vital to fight risk.
Sharing with confidence will help defeat fears over the Millennium Bug, argues Derek Brighton of Reed Elsevier.
The Loss Recovery Group devises new scheme.
The Loss Recovery Group has devised a new scheme to cut the claims handling costs of brokers. Instea...
Share Watch.
They say that share buy-backs are the last resort of a management team which has lost its direction,...
LTC stuck in purgatory.
The becalmed long term care market is destined to remain in limbo following the Royal Commission's r...
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
While an employer may be certain that one of his workers has been stealing from or cheating the company, proving it to the satisfaction of a loss adjuster so that an insurer pays out can be easier said than done. Ted Baskerville reports.
St Paul gets to grips with Woolf Report.
St Paul International Insurance this week hosted a series of seminars for brokers on the implication...
Solicitors welcome fall in claims.
Claims against the legal profession are dropping off with a further 15% decline in notifications to ...
Appointment at BIB (Darlington).
Sue Cox and Steve Davies have been recruited to BIB (Darlington). Ms Cox has been made commercial cl...
Commentary - Propping up the Bar.
In recent months, newspapers have been full of articles about 'fat cat lawyers' and 'fat cat barrist...
Fraud case ends up in Lords.
An employer would only be vicariously liable for losses from a fraud in which an employee was involv...
Lender v surveyor.
A mortgage lender which sued surveyors for negligently overvaluing property was found to be liable f...
IFAs to lose dominance.
Difficult times lie ahead for independent financial advisers as the pensions industry prepares for a...
Filming suspended following storms.
The filming of the latest James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough has been suspended following the ...
Exclusive - Travel fraud: the game's up.
Ravenstone UK, claims investigator, has launched a massive expansion in its travel claims business a...
Slammed for poor reports.
The insurance industry has been slammed for its inability to produce reasoned and readable annual re...
Court in the act.
A leading law firm invited claims handlers into the public gallery at Nottingham County Court to wat...
Big cheese from the Big Apple.
Brokers can get expert advice and tuition from political risk expert James Cunningham when he flies ...
Commentary - Time to tackle football claims.
In recent years, actions by one footballer against another over an alleged career-ending tackle have...
Law speeds up union recognition.
Gordon Noble gives a trade union perspective on how the relationship between the insurance industry and unions will pan out following the publication of the Employment Relations Bill.
Sales pitch is taking sponsorship too far.
Are giant corporate sponsors getting too big for their boots? Recent weeks should make anyone who ca...
A Woolf at the door.
Just how much will the Woolf reforms cost the insurance industry and how many companies are ready? Neil Harris explains.
Appointment at Berrymans Lace Mawer.
Marian Trippier has joined Berrymans Lace Mawer as northern personnel manager. She will handle staff...
New pensions fuel scepticism.
Government plans for a new flexible tax free pensions investment vehicle have met with industry oppo...
Superhighway or dead end?
The government has a radical blueprint for shaking up the UK's pensions system, but Francis Higney asks if the stakeholder pensions system and revamp of the state system actually get to the heart of the problems.