Opinion
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...
Underhand measures show motive behind new name
David Bishop wrote an excellent piece against the Chartered Insurance Institute name change ('Name...
No place for risky bets
So it's official, we are in recession. Asset values are dwindling, the need for raw materials has di...
Name change a nonsense
As an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, and having previously worked for a major insur...
BGL to get its paws on rich pickings as prices tumble
If a bear market is defined as a prolonged period in which investment prices fall, accompanied by wi...
In an uncertain world
What now? As our front cover this month reflects, this is a question that has been pinging around Re...
Crunch time for industry
As the credit crunch has taken hold it has become evident how intertwined the whole financial servic...
Surviving the global downturn
Global financial meltdown and looming recession has resulted in major impact to the insurance sector...
A good deal for Swiss Re
The most interesting aspect of the touted CVC Capital Partners deal for Royal Bank of Scotland Insur...
At the tipping point
Profitability in the UK motor market has been in steady decline since underwriting returns peaked, w...
Divided but not yet fallen
The announcement by the London Market Insurance Brokers' Committee that it plans to set up an indepe...
Happy to be boring
Turmoil in the financial services markets is understandably at the front of the insurance industry's...
Your comments online
In response: Most listed buildings have wrong insurance says Ecclesiastical 3 Oct 2008 09:01 by P El...
Redefining insurance in the public eye
In recent decades, few industries have needed to change as radically as the international insurance ...
An audience with Terry Nichol, XL Insurance
Anthony Gould, group editor-in-chief, Post, recently spoke to Terry Nichol, regional manager, UK mid...
The AIG serial continues
If AIG needed a vote of confidence, it got one in the shape of the insurance sectors very own Tony t...
Glut of TV ads is sickening
I feel the need to register my disgust at the amount of unnecessary expenditure allocated by insuran...
Such lively, vital times
What a marvellous time to be involved in the insurance industry. For many years, insurance was seen ...
Rehab: industry has a long way to go yet
We have read with interest the views that have been expressed since the publication of our article '...
Policyholders may share burden of B&B rescue
The financial markets continue to hog the headlines again this week. With the government bailout of...