Regulation
FSA warning over unauthorised motor insurer
The Financial Services Authority has issued a warning to consumers about a company called H&O Insure Limited which it believes is offering invalid motor insurance policies to the general public. Policies issued under this name have come to light in the…
CFA revamp revealed
Consumers, businesses, insurers, courts and lawyers will benefit from simplification of conditional fee regulations, the government claimed.
UnumProvident subpoenaed by regulators
UnumProvident has said it has received a subpoena from Oklahoma's insurance commissioner seeking evidence of possible improper broker compensation and bid-rigging in the state.
Vukelic fired from Faraday
Berkshire Hathaway has confirmed that Milan Vukelic, the chief executive of the Faraday arm of the company’s General Re subsidiary, has been dismissed.
Time to test yourself
A selection of questions from various past-CII qualification papers
Housing a few challenges
Risk Management Forum
MPs to seek EC action over Directive
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services is set to step up its lobbying...
Agreement terms must be certain
Willis Management (Isle of Man) and Willis UK v Cable and Wireless and Pender Insurance - (Court of Appeal - 30 June 2005)
An opportunity for examinations
When Eliot Spitzer opened his investigations into the US insurance industry, we could not have fores...
Tokio Marine Global joins IUA
Tokio Marine Global has joined the International Underwriting Association as the market body continu...
Lloyd's investor to renew challenge at EGM
Goshawk's largest shareholder is set to rally investors later this month in a bid to oust the insure...
Airmic calls for an urgent FSA meeting
The Association of Insurance and Risk Managers is to seek an urgent meeting with the Financial Servi...
How far does local authority duty reach?
London Borough of Islington v University College London Hospital NHS Trust (Court of Appeal - 16 June 2005)
For a Commons cause
Parliamentary Reception
RSA sells motor business
Royal and Sun Alliance made a string of announcements this week, selling a US subsidiary and bolster...
Mediation is working for Canadians
As the director of claims operations at Canada's largest motor insurer, I read with interest your re...
Dental Defence Union to lobby over insurance
The Dental Defence Union is set to lobby the General Dental Council, to encourage it to favour insur...
Appointment at Navigant New York
Paul Braithwaite, has joined the New York office of Navigant Consulting, as a managing director in the financial services practice. Braithwaite will lead the company’s growing actuarial consulting services team.
MMC results show post-Spitzer damage
Marsh & McLennan second quarter and first half results for 2005 have shown a sharp fall in profits for the company as it struggles in the wake of the fallout from the Spitzer inquiry.
Regulations hindering market, claims Smith
Most carriers in the London market are ill- fitted to cope with the challenge of new regulations, ac...
Spare us another World Trade Centre-like mess!
Inside View
Across the Great Divide
Global Review: Latin America
Finite is dead: long live finite!
The term 'finite reinsurance' has recently become subject to intense scrutiny by insurance regulators. Jonathan Teacher of Kendall Freeman analyses the response at European Union (EU) level
European complications
Global Review: Europe