Regulation
Slade to chair FSA Steering Group.
Former insurance ombudsman Laurie Slade has been appointed as chairman of the newly formed Financial...
2000 begins to bug Parliament.
Everyone seems to be waking up the the enormous potential of the millennium bug to cause huge damage...
Big guns call for 'pensions for all'.
Three major insurers have urged the government to bite the bullet and compel people to save for thei...
New trade body, new leader.
The appointment of Marie-Louise Rossi as chief executive of the new, yet-to-be named London market t...
Easing pain of prescription hike.
Western Provident Association is pushing its cash injection policy to help ease the pain of increase...
I'll be back says RSA skipper.
Devastated but determined to try again was the feeling on board the Royal & SunAlliance catamaran th...
Seize moment for change': Merricks.
Insurance ombudsman Walter Merricks urged the government to seize the moment and make "major improve...
Holocaust team will inspect files.
The North American National Association of Insurance Commissioners will send a delegation to inspect...
Bad practice is rife in aviation'.
The head of the Aviation Insurance Offices' Organisation has blamed bad business practice for the di...
Learning from US mistakes.
Michael Harris, managing director of Prudential Banking, warned insurers to learn from the mistakes ...
Legislation spring clean danger.
It looks as if we are in for a very late spring this year if current speculation about the publicati...
ABI slams flood blacklisting.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has hit back at flood experts who claim householders in lo...
All Greek to Generali.
Zurich Insurance has reached an agreement, in principle, to sell Generali its non-life business in G...
One of the first to achieve BSI certification.
Market Run-Off Services, a division of Hampden, has become one of the first companies in the financi...
Perfectly reformed?
In his consultation paper, Lord Irvine has acknowledged that the legal profession will need time to implement conditional fee arrangements. Ken Cannar looks at how the "no win, no fee" strategy would work in practice.
It's what you know.
Knowledge management is not a passing craze. According to 1997 figures, over 100 of the world's larg...
Government will scrap IBRC, says ABI's Boleat.
Association of British Insurers director general Mark Boleat told the conference audience to expect ...
IFAs to be given helping hand at last.
I am glad to see growing support for the idea that life offices should "lend" some of their resource...
Pru to pay £5m for new City HQ.
Prudential has agreed to pay an initial £5.4m to lease The Governor's House in the City of London fo...
No win, no fee, was lawful.
A woman involved in a county court case had made an agreement with her solicitor whereby he would ac...
Portfolio clamp.
Two life assurance products were caught up in the clampdown on offshore investments. Personal portfo...
Forsaking argument.
The effectiveness of alternative dispute resolution an alternative to taking legal disputes to court has meant that the legal profession as well as insurers is now vocal in its support. Liz Loxton reports.[QQ]
A government recipe for cash-saving and popularity.
Universal legal costs insurance of £25,000, at a premium which is allowed for tax purposes against i...
Insurance boost as Brown peps ISAs.
There has been a mixed reaction from the industry for the government's new Individual Savings Accoun...