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View from the top: The buck stops here

The past 18 months have been horrendous for the motor market. Insurers have been ravaged by credit hire, claims farming and fraud, burning more than £1bn of capital as a result.

French insurance market faces innovation challenge

The French insurance market is complex due to its legal and competition structure, as well as the ways and customs of the French themselves. However, as Jean-Pierre Menanteau explains, if insurers take customer service and innovation seriously they can…

Identity fraud: Tolerance levels

With technological advances arguably making insurers more susceptible to fraud at the underwriting stage, should validation techniques be learned from banks? Amy Ellis examines the issue of fraud at the front end.

Penny Black's insurance week

Penny had a pleasant lunch at the RAC Club last week with one of her esteemed market contacts and was taken aback to hear their car had been stolen and they were having problems getting their claim paid by none other than Aviva. But that was only half…

Health insurance - IPT rise: A bitter pill

With the failure of the industry's efforts to persuade the Treasury to freeze, or indeed lower, insurance premium tax on private medical insurance, Veronica Cowan looks at what it would take to lobby more effectively.

Credit hire: Stuck on you

After Axa spurned the Association of British Insurers' general terms of agreement, many thought other motor insurers would follow suit. Rachel Gordon examines why a mass exodus has not occurred.

Bollington affinity deal

Commercial broker Bollington has entered an affinity partnership with fleet management specialist Fleet Support Group.

Groupama outlines IPO timefame

Groupama is expected to float on the stock market in 2011 or 2012, according to its chief executive Jean Azema.

Focus on Greece

The European insurance market is facing a tough economic climate but none more so than the Greek market with its government’s financial debt crisis. Edward Murray reports on how the industry is coping.

Penny Black’s insurance week

Remember Big Brother? Penny was taken aback to discover the series is still trundling through its final series and drawing in big enough viewing figures for Go Compare to choose a slot in tomorrow’s eviction night extravaganza as the place to launch its…

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