Regulation
What the papers said this week
Financial Times Solicitors are to lose their right to handle complaints, with the Law Society riski...
View from the Top - Duncan Boyle, UK chief executive, Royal & Sun Alliance
At the Chartered Insurance Institute conference last month, I took part in a panel discussion regard...
Seven years ago
Looking back
E-mail is insurers' "Achilles heel"
Insurers and reinsurers may be risking costly claims litigation through the everyday use of e-mail a...
Moves to curb vexatious litigants
Many of us will have been frustrated in the past when faced by a claimant who has a history of bring...
No need to fear the Ombudsman
Insurers need not fear the Financial Services Ombudsman when tackling fraud, according to Principal ...
MEP to continue fight after EC backs down
Roy Perry MEP has vowed to bring the British government to task over failings he believes contribute...
FSA to simplify annual returns
The Financial Services Authority has set out proposals to simplify and make the reporting of key reg...
Local authority ruling effects insurer payout
Crookdake v Drury (Queen's Bench Division - 31 July 2003)
ET Knagg expands into Blackpool
ET Knagg has expanded into Blackpool with the acquisition of Jenny Lynn Insurance Brokers. ET Knagg,...
Legislation Update - UK companies vulnerable to Sarbanes Oxley
The Sarbanes Oxley Act is still not a name that is familiar in the UK, but the US Act will have an i...
India - The chosen one
General Insurance Company is facing the challenge of competing for domestic and international business
Broadening your horizons
Sal Zaffino considers the importance of diversifying reinsurance placements
The elements of risk
Systemic risk
Things are looking up
Richard Austen is confident of the benefits that Arthur J Gallagher can bring to the Singapore reinsurance market
Litigation - Getting to the point
With allegations that thimerosal in vaccines has a causal link with autism, will it be the latest product to test mass tort litigation lawyers?
Re-ratings - Transmarine Insurance
AM Best has given a financial strength rating of 'B ' to Transmarine Insurance, with a stable rating...
Reweb - First seen on the Reinsurance website www.insurancewindow.net
Munich Re made a loss of EUR603m in the first half of 2003, in contrast with the EUR4.1bn profit it ...
Singapore - A hub of activity
Despite suffering under the effects of the Sars virus and the war in Iraq, reinsurers are looking forward to calmer days in the Singapore market
Scor attacks downgrading
French (re)insurer Scor has described rating agency AM Best's decision to lower the company's financ...
LMP Changes - Modernisation of London market continues
With a number of different projects from the London Markets Principles (LMP) programme maturing, the...
Pricing and capacity - Desperately seeking security
The reinsurance market is hardly awash with capacity after the net capital outflow of the last two years, but broadly speaking there is enough
More turbulence is on the way
Uncertainty is still widespread in the troubled aviation (re)insurance market, as it enters its main renewal period