Opinion
MDU claims seem to be off balance
Dr Michael Saunders recently expressed concern about the discretionary membership benefits offered b...
Industry blind spots may hamper claims progress
The news that US firm Cybersettle's blind-bidding claims settlement system is finally set to be give...
Living with risk
Attitudes to risk are all wrong, says Steve Fowler, who suggests that risk need not be seen in a negative light but, as it is a fact of life, should be embraced as an opportunity
How we can learn to live with risk
Risk and opportunity are two sides of the same coin - neither can exist without the other. Companies...
Compensation Culture viewpoint
In the third in our series of comments from participants in the Monte Carlo debate on compensation, John Humphrys, author of Devil's Advocate outlines his views
The MDU is in fine financial fettle
The Medical Defence Union is in good financial shape. Its accounts should be read bearing in mind th...
The rollercoaster heads down
Although reserve pressures remain, softening markets in 2004 may be the result of market competition, explains Edmund Megna
Re is on the next floor up
The 'department store' approach can offer substantial benefits for diversified financial services groups, writes Henry Keeling
Weathering the storm
Each year, the Monte Carlo has a distinct atmosphere and its own major themes over the few days of t...
Politics is part and parcel of insurance
Hiscox is a well run and successful insurer; however, I have to doubt the sagacity of its chairman (...
View from the Top - Telling tales for the benefit of all
Last month's deadline for completed applications to the Financial Services Authority triggered much ...
Brokers plea for underwriting help
I am finding it increasingly difficult to find anyone working in insurance companies that can make a...
Is the gender directive losing impetus?
Halifax Bank of Scotland's move into the women-only insurance market is interesting considering ther...
RBS looks to NIG for growth
Last year, when Royal Bank of Scotland bought Churchill, some commentators suggested NIG would not l...
How about pay-as-you-go EL insurance?
Good to see Norwich Union is to pilot pay-as-you-drive motor insurance (PM, 19 August, p3). Presumab...
Penny Black's insurance week
Penny's latest sailing adventure at Cowes, courtesy of CNA, proved to be the most eventful of the su...
Facing up to the after effects
The past seven days have seen two catastrophic events put the insurance industry under the spotlight...
Greenaway is good news but support is needed
If comprehensively implemented, the recommendations in the Greenaway Report, published last week, wi...
One size does not fit all brokers
Contrary to what Zurich managing director, UK commercial, Peter Burrows claims (PM, 5 August, p1), t...
Compensation Culture viewpoint
The first in a series of comments from participants in the 'Compensation: Are we all paying too high...
Little help from Greenaway
I wholeheartedly agree with everything Steve Tidd said in his letter last week (PM, 12 August, p8). ...
Penny Black's insurance week
It would appear that Steve Fowler of the Institute of Risk Management is still smarting from televis...
Greenaway motor report needs to be driven home
After initially being scuppered by weapons of mass destruction, or rather the media frenzy surroundi...
Industry must mind the information gap
In its annual review, the Financial Ombudsman Service suggests that among the industry's customer ba...