Opinion
Letter - Teenage Associate lays claim to record
Tony Cornell's letter in the 11 March edition "An Age Old Conundrum" denying Peter Cullum's (ascribed) claim to be the youngest Associate at 21 sent me scurrying for my archives — otherwise known as the suitcase in the loft.
View from the top: A makeover of the mind
The insurance industry has an image problem. If it were a celebrity, it would take more than just a nip and tuck and some botox to transform its wrinkled reputation with the paying public.
Looking Back 5 Years Ago: Real-time MID updates are scrapped
Insurers have abandoned plans for real-time updating of the Motor Insurance Database on cost grounds, instead opting for a seven-day requirement. And the Association of British Insurers and the Motor Insurers' Bureau urged the government and the industry…
Looking Back 10 Years Ago: Insurers hit by high claims costs
Insurers suffered their second-heaviest claims burden ever last year — only 1992, the year of Hurricane Andrew, was worse.
Penny black's insurance week
What a week it was for branding geeks.
Careers: Ask the experts
After a couple of years without a pay rise, I have decided to move to a competitor. What kind of premium should I expect?
View from the top: Driving changes forward
The insurance market is highly competitive. Over the past few years, increases in claims costs have not been passed on in premiums. However, this has not been sustainable, with a recent insurance premium index showing the largest annual increase in motor…
Postbox: Burgess: I was wrong about consolidators
In January 2008, my business British Insurance became part of the Towergate Partnership.
Biba 2010: Aggrogators, ale and Willis and Marsh
Post has unearthed the centuries old diary of Daul Ponaldson, Sun Insurance employee, revealing details of his first Great British Insurance Brokers' Association conference.
Editor's comment: How many have Ageas concern out there?
Rebrands are always difficult at the best of times, but in insurance they seem to hold extra resonance.
Penny black's insurance week
If anyone had doubts about Axa's IT team, then Penny would like to say that its online policing is second to none. Just ask the member of staff who spent a few lunchtimes searching for "golden shower curtain rings".
Postbox: An age old conundrum
In The Times on the 24 February, there was a piece on Towergate's acquisition of John Charcol.
Postbox: Dutch show potential to youth
I read the recent article 'CII launches campaign to woo young people' with interest and believe that it is possible to get young people interested in insurance.
View from the top: The tipping point
In his best-selling book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell says that ideas and behaviours spread like viruses, and that intervention (or a nudge) at just the right point — the tipping point — results in a cascade of change.
Notes from The Weekly
A month's worth of fun and frolics
Legal: Climate change, nanotechnology and cyber-risk liabilities
Our climate is changing rapidly while technology that used to be the preserve of fanciful fiction is growing prevalent, writes Nilam Sharma, Michelle Jones and Benjamin Folkinshteyn
Postscript - 5 years ago: Government to step in over claims
The government has decided to take steps to police the claims management sector, with the Department for Constitutional Affairs expected to unveil its plans in the next fortnight.
Postscript - 20 years ago: J&H given Olympic contract
Lloyd's broker Johnson & Higgins has been awarded the reinsurance contract for the 1992 summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Postscript - 30 years ago: Highest fire figures are disclosed
The highest total ever recorded in one month for the estimated cost of fire damage in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) was disclosed in the British Insurance Association's recent figures as the total reached £58.5m.
Penny black's insurance week
Penny was fortunate to go along with a host of insurers and brokers to the Prince's Trust Celebrate Success Awards at The Odeon Leicester Square this week, as part of its Insurance Leadership Group.