Opinion
Choosing a PR agency
Q: We are considering employing a PR agency to raise our company profile. How do we select the right one?
Dutch unlimited cover not common
I was interested to read your story and comment on unlimited cover on third party motor physical dam...
The long summer
The long summer blazed on this August and the silly season reached its peak, with insurers and broke...
Cover for EUR10m offered in Austria
Third party liability motor insurance is sold in Austria by 25 companies. The minimum limit require...
Brokers should try to help themselves
As predicted, regulation by the Financial Services Authority is starting to bite and provincial brok...
Good practice: a case of too little, too late?
While I am sure the industry as a whole welcomes the joint Association of British Insurers (ABI) and...
Paying the premium for apathy: loony laws and governments
Tony Bridgland ponders sex discrimination, a dubious scam to cut legal costs and the great self-employed NI con
The hottest insurance gossip
Hello. Yes, it's me. What do you think? One's close friends are all being very charming following Po...
The hottest insurance gossip
Polly has had a whirlwind few weeks, what with having to move a few streets to new premises followin...
'I your commission will forthwith dispatch' (Hamlet, Act III, sc iii)
Tony Bridgland turns to the Bard for help getting to grips with the FSA's selective approach to disclosure
Industry initiative is in your hands
In a few months' time, the insurance-company sponsored imarket initiative will finally - we hope - g...
Some days, they all seem to have a vested interest
Tony Bridgland finds that crime pays sometimes - but that it's not the criminal who benefits
Tie up the loose ends
Tony Martin, ceo of Bluesure, believes that in the future packaged insurance will probably become the norm in the UK. But in the meantime there are some misunderstandings that definitely need to be sorted out
A bad, bad month for brokers ...
The Biba conference has been and gone - but how farther forward are we? Biba chief executive Mike Wi...
And to think we were given the chance to regulateourselves ...
With a heavy heart, Tony Bridgland charts the course of two decadesof government supervision
The Hottest Insurance Gossip
No sooner has Polly calmed down from the tales of daring that havecome from those members of the ins...
We already know what should have happened at Biba
If you spoke to anyone at Biba in the week running up to its annualconference, you would have found ...
Biba must sound the compliance clarion this year
The eyes of the industry will focus on the seaside town ofBournemouth this month for the annual Biba...
No cause? That doesn't mean no effect, according to the FSO
Tony Bridgland is most surprised by the Financial ServicesOmbudsman's latest decision
The Hottest Insurance Gossip
Polly was delighted to see England beat Turkey last month - but atale has reached her ears about the...
Red tape blues
Peter Done is appalled the raft of legislation and regulations thatbrokers, both as employers and as assessors of risk, have to cope with
A MARK OF RESPECT?
The controversial, see-saw battle in the courts between Arsenal Football Club and a street-trader who made his living selling unlicensed club merchandise outside its ground is a salutary lesson to insurers on the potentially huge value of intellectual…
Stonewalled on flood defences
When the UK was hit by floods in the spring of last year, the breakfast television news was inundate...
THE HOTTEST INSURANCE GOSSIP
Polly has to recount a story she was told about serial uninsureddrivers trying to pull the wool over...