Opinion
Penny Black's insurance week
Having shaken off its collective Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous hangover, the London market was back doing ...
See you in court
The City of Westminster's Jason Goodwin believes local authorities must take a firmer line when it comes to spurious claims and be willing to fight it out in the courts
Personal touch
Periodical payments could radically change the personal injury litigation sector. After the publication of the draft Civil Procedure Rules, Brendan Padfield assesses the likely implications
RAC to give AA a run for its insurance money
The RAC's decision to buy Axa's interest in RAC Financial Services certainly raised a few eyebrows t...
Whose fault is the blame claim game?
If you ask anyone in the street whether today's society is more litigious than, say, five years ago,...
Trial separation?
Insurers and solicitors have enjoyed a successful marriage for years. But commercial pressures are seeing a rise in fixed-fee agreements, fast-tracking and in-house litigators, and cracks are starting to appear in the relationship for the first time,…
Panel shake-up spells success for smaller players
And finally, Zurich announced its loss adjusting panel this week, moving away from a simple two adju...
The cycle - a storm in a tea cup?
Talk last week was all about Hurricane Ivan - will it, won't it hit the US mainland at full strength...
8 years ago
Looking back
Admiral and Saga Initial Public Offerings
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Trade body's mutual benefits
And so the embattled UK mutual insurance sector has a new trade body aimed at representing its aims ...
There's more to compensation than money
Is compensation for injured people just about pounds and pence or is it about helping them to get be...
Reinsurers re-emphasise need for caps
Although hurricanes and the future of Converium were the hot topic at Monte Carlo this week, a few o...
Secondary sector numbers are still cause for concern
The latest figures from the Financial Services Authority do little to ease industry fears that the s...
Mutuals' days are numbered
The recent article 'Open for Business' uncovers seismic changes in medical and dental defence (PM, 9...
Eight years ago
Looking back
Call to arms for MDU AGM
In her response to my factual interpretation of the latest set of the Medical Defence Union's accoun...
Greenaway did not grasp the uninsured nettle
The Greenaway Report has failed to grasp the nettle on the issue of uninsured drivers who it claims ...
The FSA has been sold a system pup
The Financial Services Authority's bid to achieve a position alongside Sarbanes-Oxley and Internatio...
Whistle-blowing is a duty
I agree with all Steve Hearn's points about whistle-blowing (view from the top, PM, 26 August, p9). ...
UK CEOs must act to stop history repeating itself
I was struck by Peter Matson's 'View from the Top' (PM, 29 July, p11). From my own experience during...
EL solutions waiting game
Zurich Financial Services' decision to reward its commercial customers for adopting good risk manage...
Compensation Culture viewpoint
In the last in our series of comments from participants in the Monte Carlo debate, US judge Richard Posner, outlines his views
Insurance IPOs need confidence boost
With Initial Public Offerings being talked up wherever possible, the next few weeks could prove a tu...