Opinion
If you wish upon a star
Christmas and the new year period traditionally see television screens filled with commercials for c...
CII merger failure has hit confidence
An open letter to Dr Alexander Scott, chief executive officer, Chartered Insurance Institute In my ...
Imperfect storm heralds return of hard market
The global economic crisis that blew up in 2008, blindsiding banking and dominating headlines, shoul...
The insurance industry needs a second life
Web technology took a massive leap forward in 2008. Blogs, forums, wikis, social networking and twit...
2009: a tricky prediction
If this time last year, someone was to tell you: a leading global insurer would be bailed out by the...
What's certain is that nothing is certain
One of the nice things about writing at this time of year is the ability to speculate on what the co...
Talking fairness in the future of PMI
Within Jane Bernstein's excellent article on the outlook for health insurance providers (Post, 4 Dec...
Brokers concerned over UK insurers' endurance
It appears that all this talk of recession is certainly getting to the UK's brokers. With many well...
Now is the opportunity to play a pivotal role in risk
Risk and insurance managers have never had it so good. The need for firms to have good risk manageme...
Reality check: aggregators' role to introduce
Igo4 welcomes the recent findings of the follow up report by the Financial Services Authority into t...
Insurers plough on through tough times
Despite the credit crunch it appears that there is still interest in insurance businesses which are ...
Valued relationships to get through tough times
While all the indicators suggest that we are on the verge of a hard insurance market, there is littl...
Credit-hire assistance could be beneficial
I read with interest the debate on the credit hire industry in last week's Claims Supplement (27 Nov...
2008: quite a year
It was quite a year in 2008. If hurricanes weren't battering the Gulf Of Mexico, then floods were t...
Customer loyalty - how do we protect it?
One of the most remarkable aspects of the UK commercial market is the loyalty of customers; research...
Extending indemnity periods applauded
As a chartered loss adjuster and chartered accountant, frequently involved in the negotiation and ad...
QBE's motor U-turn
With QBE poised to acquire the Lloyd's motor business Equity Red Star, it marks an interesting chang...
Rehab standards - let's have your views
I was delighted to read ('Handle with Care', Post, 13 November 2008, p34) that our draft rehabilitat...
Slow and steady wins the race for survival
There are similarities between the financial troubles at Lloyd's in the 1990s and the current financ...
New cold costs war
Ten years after the Woolf reforms drove through drastic changes to the way civil litigation costs ar...
CII name change clarified
I would like to clarify an aspect of the article of 6 November concerning the 1991 member vote to ch...
Cutting cover is a false economy for businesses
As I write, the International Monetary Fund has predicted how - next year - the global credit crisis...
If at first you don't succeed
While the insurance industry does not enjoy a reputation for cutting-edge innovation, it is pleasing...
CII seeks backing over campaign for change
As expected, the recent announcement of the Chartered Insurance Institute's proposed name change - a...