Blogs
Blogs
Apprentice blog: a taste of the jobSubscription
Our blogging junior loss adjuster talks about the challenges in handling his first international loss
Davey’s blog: Let’s end dual pricingSubscription
Dual pricing is wrong and makes insurers look like dodgy market traders. It’s time we stamped it out.
Legal blog: Wise moves on personal injurySubscription
Recent developments in the courts and the Commons have ensured a fair framework for personal injury claimants and practitioners. Maintaining the package of Jackson reforms is just as vital
Apprentice blog: Raring to goSubscription
Our new blogger is sizing up the industry with a fresh pair of eyes. His second year in the job is already delivering more than its share of challenges
Legal blog: Time is ripe for reformSubscription
The TUC is wrong to call for employers’ liability claims to be removed from Jackson
Gosden’s blog: ignore staff training at your perilSubscription
A well-trained, motivated workforce is good for everyone – but job cuts threaten to create a skills gap in the industry
Davey’s blog: These days, effort is not enoughSubscription
Two many brokers are relying on sheer hard work to achieve success, without thinking through their strategy, or the tactics to deliver it
Fraud blog: when it comes to beating fraudsters, it’s good to talkSubscription
Conmen know the industry’s limits and are ready to exploit them
Biba blog: The FSA must account for its slice of cakeSubscription
With the FSA continuing to ask the insurance industry to dig deep, the industry needs to ask more of it in return
Legal blog: 2012 – An Olympian leap for the legal profession?Subscription
The Legal Services Act opens up the legal market to other businesses, including insurers. With the Jackson reforms also coming into play, insurance companies may be motivated to take advantage of the changes
Biba blog: 2012 is not all doom and gloomSubscription
While the rest of the economy struggles, the insurance broking sector is looking healthy for the year ahead. And there are other reasons to be cheerful
Biba blog: Change is good, isn't it?Subscription
The rules for taking on new business 45 years ago may sound anti-competitive but at least they were always professional – it’s time for a revival of respect, consideration and honesty
Biba blog: Change is good, but it does make your hair fall outSubscription
Graeme Trudgill looks at the challenges facing Biba
Davey's blog: Tomorrow's world is here todaySubscription
Insurers are already facing difficulties with real-time, online pricing – now the US market presents another challenge
Backchat at Biba
Insurance Times’s man on the inside is in Manchester – read his updates from Biba 2012 here
Biba blog: there is a free lunch for brokersSubscription
It’s a busy time for Biba as the annual conference and exhibition looms
Biba blog: the FSA gets it rightSubscription
The much-derided regulator deserves applause for not only working to clarify client money rules – but for actually spent time talking to Biba members to get their input
Biba blog: SMEs need to get on the ELD trainSubscription
Biba backs the government’s drive to encourage SMEs to export, but those that fail to provide information for the Employer’s Liability Database may find themselves unable to get EL insurance
Biba blog: Something for everyoneSubscription
Biba’s not just for the big-hitters. The association’s national conference has plenty to offer brokers working at all levels
Paul Moors: Life looks different from an open top busSubscription
The chairman of broker Bollington reflects on a busy week that includes lots of meetings, a Biba dinner and a day spent as a tourist in London
Biba blog: The Galbraith factorSubscription
The launch of an initiative aimed at insuring older people and a series of regulatory changes promise an eventful few months for the brokers’ association
Legal blog: Let’s take the sting out of whiplashSubscription
It’s time the government reined in the culture of dubious personal injury claims
Biba blog: refashioning the FSA requires more than a lick of paintSubscription
The government’s forthcoming changes at the financial regulator should not just be cosmetic
Paul Moors: Business as usualSubscription
The chairman of broker Bollington reveals the eventful week in which he was told the firm had been put up for sale by Groupama
Legal blog: Don’t discount the importance of the discount rateSubscription
The government needs to reform how catastrophic injury claims are calculated
Blog: The injury claims shake-up of 2011Subscription
Barely a month has gone by without another development in the referral fees story that has rocked the industry – but what can we expect from 2012?
Legal blog: Life is all about … timingSubscription
Incoming Foil president Don Clarke looks at the effects of referall fee reforms
Blog: Losing the lawyer from injury claimsSubscription
Simple, uncontested personal injury claims rarely require a solicitor, so why are they automatically retained?
