Regulation
Intermediary customers in line for FSCS payout
Five insurance intermediary firms have been declared in default
FSA bans broker for sales techniques
Financial Services Authority bans Aaron Nickols, trading as Warwick Finance, for "widespread systems and controls failings"
Tax reforms threaten UK competitiveness, warns PwC
Jonathan Howe, UK insurance tax leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers, calls on the Chancellor to get UK competitiveness back on track in next week's pre-budget report
FSA bans brokers for lying about criminal conviction
Brothers Faraz Ahmed Siddique and Waqas Ahmed Siddique have been banned
Brokers attack FSA over latest 'misleading' complaint statistics
Biba claims results misrepresent broker performance
KPMG study offers two-way perspective on regulation
Respondents see threats and benefits of regulation
AMII unveils plans for more 'broker-friendly' PMI training
Collaboration with CII to be launched next year
FSA delays PPI policy statement on back of industry reaction
FSA hit by claims proposals are too ambiguous
Ecological concerns
Further national and European environmental legislation can only increase brokers' duty of care, writes Edward Murray.
Insurers unite to attack aggregator phenomenon
Comparison sites blamed for impact on pricing
Industry reaction on RBSI sale
Peter Stevenson, owner of Alan Stevenson Partnership, questions whether "big is still beautiful"
RBSI sale confirmed
Royal Bank of Scotland said it will divest in its insurance business over the next four years
IIB welcomes FSCS review
Barbara Bradshaw, chief executive of the Institute of Insurance Brokers, said she is "delighted"
FSCS review confirmed
The move has been welcomed by the British Insurance Brokers' Association
Risk Perspectives: Directors' duties
By Tony Gimple, managing director, Crisis Survivor
FSA stands by the need for increased SIF consultation
Senior appointment scrutiny to affect smaller brokers too
Swinton stung by FSA fine for 'serious failings' in PPI scandal
Margaret Cole: "Play fair, or not at all."
Swiftcover defends claims that its online instructions tempt fraud
Direct provider promises to look at wording on its quote declined page
Commission plans for PPI hanging by a thread
Barclay's successful appeal against the Competition Commission's rulings puts PPI debate back in spotlight
What the papers say
Insurance Age editor, Martin Friel, talks to David Ross, head of media relations at the CII, and Insurance Age news editor Louise Meeson about how the press dealt with the leading stories in October
GI and pure protection complaints soar
Complaints about general insurance intermediaries have also increased
Swinton fined £770,000 for "serious failings" in PPI sales
The Financial Services Authority said Swinton will offer refunds on more than 480,000 PPI policies
Commercial lawsuits jump 9.6% as credit crunch litigation starts to rise
Research by City law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain reveals 70,199 civil law cases were launched in the High Court in 2008.
PPI point of sale ban quashed
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has ruled that the Competition Commission must reconsider its point of sale prohibition proposals