Opinion
I don't know what you did last summer
Damage Management
Snakes and ladders
The news that Cobra is in talks that may or may not lead to a sale immediately got industry tongues ...
Keeping NFU exclusively mutual
Last week NFU Mutual surprised the market with the announcement that it was to replace outgoing chie...
Hard times ahead?
Unless you had been hiding under a rock for the last few months it would have been impossible not to...
Hedging your bets
Litigation funding
Risk managers can be the sale of the century
Over the last three to four years of booming markets and rising profits, the old adage has proved tr...
Square pegs in Oval holes
The drawn out 'will Oval buy Perkins Slade or won't it?' saga came to a conclusion last week with th...
No deposit critique missed the mark
Predictable as Eddie Hooker's comments about our innovative solution for the lettings industry may h...
No thanks to new ideas
As a market traditionally not seen as very innovative, it is with some sadness that Post this week r...
'Money laundering' chaos still an issue
Time's up. It's more than six months since the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 became law, and any...
The elephant is in the industry's backyard
It's a tough old market out there for insurers, brokers and customers. Crunches, squeezes, strains a...
Fostering healthy market convergence
The current, growing capital market involvement in the insurance and reinsurance industries through ...
Cutbacks: will the big shrink lead to a sink?
Last week two of the largest UK insurers announced plans to streamline their businesses in moves tha...
Industry can do more to stop fraudsters in their tracks
In response to last week's web story 'Fraud prevention low priority for UK' (Postonline, 2 June) I w...
What do you think?
Subscribers to Post and Post Online can now let off steam or pass on their pearls of wisdow to the r...
The claimant's view: adding insult to injury for mesothelioma victims
The tribute paid by Charles Gordon, DLA partner, to those involved in the mesothelioma trigger issue...
Ombudsman report shows FSA witchhunt is wrong
I have just browsed through the Financial Ombudsman report for 2007/8 to see if there were any clues...
Snowball exit closes door on IPO avenue
When Patrick Snowball was unveiled as deputy chairman of Towergate last year it was seen as somethin...
Three blind underwriters
Dear friend, (With apologies to Jane Austen) It is a truth perhaps not universally acknowledged tha...
Hothouse must cool for compliance
While I cannot comment on the internal issues regarding Willis' cold-calling campaign ("Willis divid...
The challenge of change
Solvency II
Biba: hypocrite or in line with change?
Having criticised aggregators in the past for their less than ethical tactics, on face value the Bri...
Don't take second best
If the research and insurance media coverage is to be believed, a constant thorn in the side of the ...
Repair dialogue will only help matters
The recent roundtable discussion looking at the issue of cash settlement, the benefits of this metho...