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Penny black's insurance week

If any of Penny's loyal readers were wondering what happened to former Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance boss Trevor Brittain then ponder no more.

ABI highlights its successes

Your leader 'Breaking up: hard to do?' highlights the importance of the Association of British Insurers effectively representing our general insurance members.

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.

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.

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

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…

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