Analysis
Royal & Sun Alliance subject of takeover speculation
Results round-up
Brokers still licking regulation wounds
In the run-up to this year's British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) conference in Brighton, Insurance Age conducted an online poll of readers to gauge your views on a number of the major themes on the agenda. Michelle Worvell reports on the results
CMGL appoints Jonathan Piper
Claims management and insurance services firm CMGL has appointed Jonathan Piper as chief actuary. Mr...
Allianz Cornhill urges customer focused approach during 2006
Results round-up
Your views on changes since regulation
Brokers' customers have not reacted positively to the changes implemented since Financial Services A...
Brighton the corners
Biba programme
Groupama results show significant improvement
Results round-up
Obstacle or necessity
Corporate manslaughter
Auto-txt given official Police endorsement
Auto-txt, the new Category 5 vehicle tracking system, has been given official Police endorsement wit...
Brokers key to resolution in late payments argument
Brokers could have a key role to play in defusing the row over late payments to contractors handling...
Fortis UK sees profits increase
Results round-up
Appointment at Xchanging
Xchanging, the business processing services company, has appointed Mark Thompson as managing directo...
The runt of the litter
Good things come in small packages, according to the well known saying, but in the current competitive environment being small is not necessarily an advantage, as Liz Booth explains
Thoughts on the fairness of FOS investigations
- "Surely the charges should relate to who is at fault? Hence, if a claim is upheld the insurer pays...
How could insurers improve their service to brokers?
"Employ staff with insurance experience and stop sending everything overseas" - "Better telephone r...
Something to hide?
In recent months, transparency has been a virtue much proclaimed in commercial lines insurance markets. As Andrew Beazley reports, brokers and underwriters have competed to offer the most resounding endorsement of transparency as the cure for all that…
FSA gives verdict on claims review
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it was encouraged by a recent survey of insurers' retail...
What will you be using imarket for?
"As a portal to insurer intranets and trading for small business" - "Single point access to insurer...
The Insurance Age World Cup
Do you want to be a football champion in the insurance industry's most exciting new event? Have you ...
Norwich Union looking at premium rate increases
Results round-up
Broker comments on the claims function
"We suffer because of insurers and loss adjusters attitudes and poor levels of response and service"...
What you said about delegated underwriting authority and dealing with the FSA
Insurers may talk the talk but they don't walk the walk if the response of brokers in our survey is ...
Nothing can go wrong ..
Event insurance
Approval given for schemes
Approval was given late last month for schemes of arrangement to be enacted allowing collapsed Austr...