Opinion
Banging the drum
The issue of commission has been a repetitive theme in the industry trade press and insurer/broker e...
Negative reaction to MoJ reforms ignores advances
I was disappointed to read the negative comments in last week's Post following the publication of th...
Sorry - how much was that again?
The Weekly
Revenge of the money-swappers
Dear friend, One thing guaranteed to annoy an underwriter is when clients start treating them like ...
Cutting insurance is short sighted in the extreme
It is hard to recall when the UK last faced the current levels of financial uncertainty. Nor, for ma...
Sons and daughters
When Insurance Australia Group sat down in 2006 and decided a well-known telebroker headquartered in...
The claimant's view: HSE takes soft option
The Health and Safety Executive has a steering group set up to evaluate the impact of measures to st...
Strong surveillance will help curb fraud
I must concur with the recent findings of the Innovation Group (Post, 17 July 2008, p10) with regard...
Government waters down and buries PI reforms
The fact that the government's long-awaited response to the personal injury reforms consultation is ...
Delivering value is doing the right thing
The outlook for the economy seems to get worse every time I open a newspaper. As a former underwrite...
Leaving already?
Litigation Funding
Endsleigh looks to student connection
I was disappointed to read the article 'Broker boss concerned at Endsleigh branch exit' (www.postonl...
Then there were three
With Zurich no longer interested in buying Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance, a once impressive field...
New flood maps should be peer-reviewed
The Environment Agency is launching new flood maps in August, which will, for the first time, take i...
Cover confidential
Insurance disclosure
An end to water torture
It's hard to believe that a year has passed since those rains came but barely a week has gone by wit...
Equality for who exactly?
The proposals around the Equality Act raise a number of issues for the insurance industry. Insurance...
Online feedback
"Is that the dentist? Hello, I have toothache, how much do you charge to fix it?" "Without seeing i...
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...