Regulation
Ablett takes consultancy role
Tim Ablett, former chief executive of FirstAssist, has been appointed by financial services consulta...
Treating staff fairly
Q. Our workforce includes staff who are hard of hearing. Following the fire safety legislation changes recently introduced how do I take this into consideration?
Letters
Part-timers are the real danger I refer to recent press reports confirming the continued stance by ...
News review: February
- Sainsbury's reveals legal plans Supermarket chain Sainsbury's announced its plan to launch a legal...
Part-timers are the real danger
I refer to recent press reports confirming the continued stance by the Treasury to exclude travel ag...
A different dimension
Brokers are increasingly looking into the benefits of implementing risk management practices, but there is still much to be done if the sector is to move in the right direction. Sarah Hills asks if brokers could be doing more to protect themselves and…
Regulation Zone
Treating Customers Fairly is finally upon us, with full compliance expected by the Financial Service...
Brokers told to check their facts or face FSA backlash
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is investigating claims that the selling of legal expenses...
Biba's website is an ineffective tool
I have never found the British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) website easy to navigate, so it...
Consumers are also accountable
The front page story on online trading in the February issue was interesting. Several of the comment...
Open GI events
Following Open GI's 2006 product clinics, the Countrywide Network has launched a series of events de...
Risk Perspectives - Keeping a lid on workplace fraud
Emotive words like duplicity, dishonesty and deception have perhaps unfairly tainted the corporate l...
The road to recovery
RM Client Profile
BIBA research
New independent research commissioned by the British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has revea...
FSA imposes censure
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has imposed a public censure on Cathedral Motor Company for f...
The hottest insurance gossip
Polly was pleased to offer her congratulations to Branko Bjelobaba, director of the self-named busin...
Travel agents voice concern over possible FSA regulation
Greater numbers of consumers would travel abroad without insurance if the travel industry was regula...
Crawford & Co bureau
Crawford and Company has created a new global claims bureau in the UK to strengthen its Lloyd's oper...
FSA firm testing
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has urged firms to improve the stress testing of their busine...
IGI launches online service
IGI is to underwrite the first product offering from Policyfast, a web-based niche underwriting serv...
Letter of the month - Please do not let the letters page showcase one-man band
Over the years I have watched Simon Burgess blow his own trumpet on some of the dafter schemes to hi...
Hurricanes threat not over says expert
The threat of hurricanes in the Atlantic region will remain high for decades, a report by a leading ...
A pregnant pause
Q. An employee of three weeks has just informed me she is pregnant and wants to take early maternity leave. What is her entitlement and the best course of action?
FSA certain over contracts as it hails industry effort
The Financial Services Authority has heralded the insurance industry's effort to achieve contract ce...