International Underwriting Association (IUA)

Insurance Block Exemption Regulation

The insurance block exemption has in the past helped European insurers to avoid competition issues. However, as Jakki May explains a recent tightening of the rules means insurers must put their practices under scrutiny.

UKRC puts rehabilitation on the general election agenda

The UK Rehabilitation Council has thrown down the gauntlet to the main political parties, asking them to stipulate their plans for improving the country's poor return-to-work record, with a view to posting responses live on its website in the run up to…

View from the top: The tipping point

In his best-selling book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell says that ideas and behaviours spread like viruses, and that intervention (or a nudge) at just the right point — the tipping point — results in a cascade of change.

Inflation reservations

Any return to high rates of inflation would be a challenge to writers of long-tail reinsurance business, especially when it comes to reserving. New modelling techniques will help to cope with this uncertainty, says Andrew English of EMB

Roundtable: Solvency II in depth

In this extended roundtable discussion, group editor-in-chief Ant Gould and industry big hitters from the UK and continental Europe consider the progress made by (re)insurance as the once-distant spectre of Solvency II now looms large and close

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