Opinion
Postscript - 20 years ago: Job loss threat for aviation staff
Looking through Post's back catalogue paints a unique picture of more than 150 years of insurance news, as this highlight from 20 years ago reveals.
View from the top: After the calm may come the storm of inflation
What a quarter we’ve had — no crises, no Greek-style riots, no parliamentary armageddon and no bank failures. In fact, one could sometimes even be lulled into the sense that the past two years have been some awful nightmare from which we have just awoken…
Penny Black's insurance week
Last week's British Insurance Summit certainly saw a considerable amount of debate as the great and good of the insurance market got together.
Top 100 Insurers 2010: Navigating choppy waters
This year's top 100 rankings show the major players dropping anchor in stormy seas, while smaller groups make waves of their own with significant jumps in GWP. Jonathan Swift examines the statistics.
Penny Black's insurance week
This week Penny witnessed the most heart-thumping, testosterone-fuelled event of the insurance calendar.
View from the top: The buck stops here
The past 18 months have been horrendous for the motor market. Insurers have been ravaged by credit hire, claims farming and fraud, burning more than £1bn of capital as a result.
View from the top: Cooperation is key to effective flood risk management
Three years on from the devastating 2007 floods, it¹s difficult to forget the images of people¹s homes and businesses under water and the resulting distress and damage to all involved. Last week¹s flooding summit was a timely reminder of the challenges…
Postbox: No banking business for Chartis
Regarding the article "Chartis to fill short-term lending gap for trade credit clients", I would like to clear up any misconception that Chartis was to begin lending up to £10m.
Penny Black's insurance week
Last weekend Penny was rather royally entertained at Hampton Court Palace for one Peter Cullum's 60th birthday.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny enjoyed a first class day out at Twickenham on Saturday for the new rugby season's double-header and the first matches for Aviva as main sponsor.
Postbox: Exclusion key to fraud prevention
Richard Davies' article 'Time to share fraud data' () highlights an age-old problem: that insurance fraud is ok for many policyholders — unless they get caught. But why not exclusion?
View from the top: Commercial reality check
The most recent round of financial results from across the market has provided further proof, if more were needed, that commercial insurance is being sold too cheaply. Indeed, this has been the case for far too long. Action to address this is a matter of…
View from the top: Time to share fraud data
Industry fraud statistics are normally presented as a good news story. Last year, insurers stopped 122 000 frauds, preventing payment of a huge £840m.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny had a pleasant lunch at the RAC Club last week with one of her esteemed market contacts and was taken aback to hear their car had been stolen and they were having problems getting their claim paid by none other than Aviva. But that was only half…
Postbox: Brokers don't need to be alone in tough times
As reported in The Daily Telegraph this week, Towergate's Peter Cullum has warned that too many businesses are "traumatised" by the recession and are failing to prepare for the future, and that now is the time to be planning "transformational changes…
Exclusive marine content now available on Post Europe
In Post Europe's latest "View from the Top" article RSA’s Richard Turner predicts what the major talking points will be at the at the International Union of Marine Insurance conference taking place in a few weeks.
Exclusive marine content now available
In Insurance Insight's latest "View from the Top" article RSA’s Richard Turner predicts what the major talking points will be at the at the International Union of Marine Insurance conference taking place in a few weeks.
View from the Top - Meeting the challenge of a new decade in marine
The International Union of Marine Insurance holds its annual conference in Zurich this September, where it will be debating the common theme of ‘Meeting the challenge of a new decade’.
View from the Top - Meeting the challenge of a new decade in marine
The International Union of Marine Insurance holds its annual conference in Zurich this September, where it will be debating the common theme of ‘Meeting the challenge of a new decade’.
View from the top: Changing for the better
The commercial insurance sector has seen five consecutive quarters of little or no price increases after nearly five years of steady decreases. These are challenging times for any commercial insurer or broker and when the top line isn't increasing, firms…
Penny Black's insurance week
Ecclesiastical invited Penny and a bunch of insurance hacks for a snoop around Wellington Arch and Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington, last week.
Postbox: Praise for BDMA training
I was delighted to see your feature highlighting the excellent work done by the British Damage Management Association
Postbox: Discovering the intentions of customers
As the Actuarial Party's recent report states, claims management companies are driving some people to claim.
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny congratulates Neil Utley on his wedding in the grounds of his Cambridgeshire home at the weekend.