Opinion
Call for Property Thatcham
With the property insurance industry up to its knees in water, isn't it time again to consider a Tha...
Accident prone employees: can we predict who they are?
A company's accident book can often reveal recurring names of employees. Are some people just unluck...
Subsidence Expo: a catalyst for debate
Last week's Post's Subsidence Expo provided those within the industry a golden opportunity to air vi...
An inconvenient truth
The Association of British Travel Agents reacted as expected to the announcement that the Financial ...
Are insurers living in a claim-free nirvana?
As usual, I'm returning to my favourite subject of premium inflation (or lack of it). I have some f...
Outdates processes still exist
The fact that HM Revenue and Customs insists upon the six-year retention of paper receipts is a clea...
My key to the cabinet
Reports coming out of France about Nicolas Sarkozy inviting Henri de Castries, group chairman and ch...
Disclosure debate needed
If 2006 was the year that the words 'contract certainty' were etched into our collective consciousne...
Convergence is well and truly back on the menu
The growing use of catastrophe bonds, industry loss warranties and other insurance linked securities...
Back to the future for open-door RSA policy
It is amazing how sometimes the simplest of things get insurers very excited. Take last weeks' anno...
Safe online docs can be a dead cert
Like Matthew Donaldson (Online certs cop unfair flak, Post, 7 June 2007, p16), I was disappointed at...
Losing credit
Future of PPI
Conference no-shows set the scene for gossip
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers' conference this week was notable, as much for who wa...
Online certs cop unfair flak
Chief Constable Hughes of the Association of Chief Police Officers claims that legalising online car...
A simplified approach reaps best SME rewards
For too long brokers have avoided providing bespoke services to small to medium-sized businesses as ...
Competition - Winners
The answer to the question to win the Chartered Management Institute's book Six of the Best by Ed ...
VC culture set to swoop?
Whether prompted by Post's Power List or not, it was certainly serendipitous that two of the top fou...
We need to regain trust
Imagine, as a broker, if a lender got in touch with you to say it was improving the conditions of yo...
Broker price indiscipline can't go on
It's about time that UK composites stopped 'pussy footing' around brokers. For too long brokers, in...
Aggregation aggro?
The rise of the aggregators in personal lines is a phenomenon. They have become a force to be reckon...
Service mantra not evidenced on frontline
While I'm delighted to see that luminaries from the insurance industry are sitting around a table to...
Competition: Win a copy of Six of the Best
In the Chartered Management Institute's new book, Six of the Best, author Ed Peppitt brings together...
In the shadow of the FSA
This week a significant chunk of the UK general insurance sector will decamp to East London for the ...
Working together to bring about change
The Department of Constitutional Affairs' (now Ministry of Justice) recent consultation paper on per...