Regulation
Biba welcomes call from CAB
The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has welcomed a call from the Citizens Advice Burea...
Risk Management Service of the Year - Cooke & Mason
Insurance Age Awards 2005
Building from the ground up
The clock is ticking for the industry to take contract certainty initiatives on board. Colin Foster offers his advice on how brokers can achieve this with the minimum of disruption
Brokers come up wanting during FSA 'health check'
No broker was fully regulatory compliant when Axa performed health checks at 22 of them, a senior fi...
First Assist sells PMI business to Standard Life Healthcare
First Assist has sold its private medical insurance (PMI) business to Standard Life Healthcare for a...
Risk perspectives - Making sure your PI policy is valid
Insurance brokers have a duty to report all circumstances which may lead to a future claim on their ...
Associations look to bring in secondary intermediaries
Garages and retail outlets may be admitted into the British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) as...
Searchlight Letter of the month
Although I fully support the Financial Services Authority idea of offering the general insurance cus...
FSA warns of unauthorised insurer
The Financial Services Authority is warning consumers about H&O Insure, which it believes is offerin...
Accountant warns of more BSPs to come
London-based chartered accountant CLB Littlejohn Frazer is warning of more trials and tribulations a...
Lloyd's subpoenaed over finite reinsurance
Lloyd's has confirmed it has received two requests for information from the US Securities and Exchan...
Premium Finance & Regulation - Which way for premium finance?
Premium Finance
RMAR setback for FSA
In yet another setback for the Financial Services Authority's regulation of insurance, the deadline ...
Insure and Go secures new travel partner
Intermediary InsureandGo has added First Assist as one of its travel insurance providers. The cover,...
The Broker Network acquires 15th member
The Broker Network has acquired the goodwill and asset purchase of member Whitehouse Woodall Reeves,...
Child care-arrangements
Q. What amount of time away from work is an employee legally entitled to in order for them to care for a sick or injured child?
Hatching a plan
Business Continuity
Calls for BPS to face administrator legal action
Creditors of BPS Insure, which went into administration in May after the Financial Services Authorit...
FSA: no need to worry about customer risk transfer interest
Brokers do not need to worry about paying interest to retail customers when risk transfer is involve...
ACLP prosecution alert
Allianz Cornhill Legal Protection (ACLP) is asking brokers to alert their customers that they could ...
Conflict of interest training needed for sake of customers
Brokers must ensure they train staff to recognise potential conflicts of interest and have stringent...
Private eye
Insurance inspectors
ZSL enters transitional phase
Company ratings
ABI report
A new report published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has suggested that risk diversif...