Opinion
20 Years Ago: Union warns over foreign vulnerability
anufacturing Science Finance, the financial services union, said UK insurance companies are vulnerable to foreign takeovers and the government is doing nothing to guard against this
30 Years Ago: Study reveals low spend on insurance
Most London families suffer from poverty because husbands spend four times as much on drinking and smoking as they do on insuring their lives, according to a report based on a six-month study by Liberty Life Assurance.
Penny black's insurance week
Jeepers! Penny spotted the always dapper Lorega chairman, Malcolm Harvey last week apologising profusely to another driver after a minor jeep-on-4x4 incident in Haywards Heath. Penny is not sure exactly what happened — but it sounded like Mr Harvey's…
Cyber cover: concentrate on private sector
I was interested to read Patrick Hill's presentation of the case for cyber liability insurance ('Cyber threat or opportunity?', www.postonline.co.uk/1565406).
Insurer majority alive to specialist need
The article by Martin Richell of the Raw Group ('Contamination frustration', www.postonline.co.uk/1567567) correctly warns against the employment of inexperienced contractors when dealing with contamination incidents.
European legal insurance model can work in UK
Helen Withers, managing director of Arc Legal Assistance, makes some bold statements in her recent letter ('European Model unworkable in UK', www.postonline.co.uk/1585923) that could lead Post readers into thinking that the standard model for legal…
View from the top: The changing focus of service delivery
Over the last year or so, while the focus has been on the credit crunch, a quiet revolution has been taking place in the way the insurance industry delivers its service. Modern service delivery is increasingly reliant on (and influenced by) the…
Invest in your profession
This week, Post launches Investing in the Profession, a new campaign aimed at raising the profile of some of the great initiatives that are taking place in the general insurance sector to improve professionalism and standards.
Postbox: European model unworkable in UK
Why is [DAS chief executive] Paul Asplin sounding the death knell for the UK legal expenses model (www.postonline.co.uk/1567531), when alternative UK business models are already demonstrating that add-on legal expenses can deliver both a responsive…
Penny black's insurance week
Penny is getting sick of this cold weather, although the freak blizzards in Kent on 17 December added a surreal element to Towergate's Moroccan themed soiree that saw marketing boss Marc DonFrancesco kitted out as a camel and CEO Andy Homer masquerading…
The SME squeeze
Never hold a major planning meeting just before Christmas. Psychologists tell us that in the run up to the festive season most people can only focus their minds on the 25th itself; beyond that is a just a blank.
View from the top - Aleksandr Orlov: Business made simples
Greetings insurance peoples, and welcome to The View from Top with me, Aleksandr Orlov. I am very honour to give advice to you big cheeses.