All Features articles – Page 83
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Equitas surplus falls as its solvency margin rises
Equitas' latest results have been praised by senior figures in the UK insurance market. The company reported a £21m, or 3%, fall in its surplus to £679m in the year to 31 March 2001. The fall ...
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Syndicate drops lines
Lloyd's Syndicate MWL 2245 has stopped writing new business on certain lines for the rest of June, as part of a strategy to allocate its capital across the whole 2002 year.Syndicate 2245 underwrit ...
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Governance Opportunities
Putting in place a structure to manage risk across a company can be difficult unless there are agreed practices and definitions. Carole Edrich explains how to approach the task
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Wellington faces Names' outrage
Names fear Wellington Re will cream off 2020's best business
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Litigating Circumstances
Why do subsidence cases go to court?Despite neither side wanting to waste either the management time or expense far too many subsidence cases end up in court. Richard Whybrew explains why
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Lord Levene named next chairman
After months of speculation, the former Lord Mayor of London, Lord Levene, has been named the next chairman of Lloyd's, according to market sources.Levene, who is vice-chairman of Deutsche Bank an ...
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Regulatory Shortcomings
The set-up outlined last week at Rabid Insurance Intermediaries should have rung a few alarm bells. Waltham Pitglow examines its regulatory shortcomings
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Names to resist limits
Lloyd's attempts to lure unlimited liability Names to a limited status will face resistance, according to the Association of Lloyd's Members (ALM).In January, the Chairman's Strategy Group (CSG) a ...
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The Lime Street Superhighway
Following the success of its online broker service, Lloyd's is pressing ahead with an ambitious risk exchange network. Yvette Essen investigates
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An irregular Intermediary
Both the FSA and GISC have specific codes of practice for intermediaries and insurance companies. Here, Waltham Pitglow describes a successful intermediary who has no need of regulation
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Lloyd's fund for collapsed firm
Lloyd's has set aside £4.9m to pay claims related to a collapsed travel insurance intermediary.The Management Company (London) issued policies bearing the Lloyd's name without Lloyd's authority. …
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Extended Benefits
Comprehensive motor insurance covers much more than just car-related incidents. In this continuing series Roy Rodger explains some of the benefits of this wider policy
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Lloyd's £1.4bn profit forecast
Lloyd's is expected to report a 2002 profit of more than £1.4bn. Analysts said the strong premium rate rises, bolstered by the terrorist attacks of 11 September last year, will push the 314-year-old m ...
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Heritage sets up new property syndicate
Heritage Managing Agency plans to double its size by setting up a new syndicate.
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Governing Standards
Corporate governance is an issue the FSA will be looking at in the insurance sector. Carole J Edrich explains the likely areas of its regulatory requirements
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Lloyd's overhaul at Miller Fisher
The director of Miller Fisher's Lloyd's unit has left, as the company begins to reorganise its London Market business.The third party administration company has brought in Paula Doolan from its Ir ...
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Reviewing the results
Last week's CPD proposed that training alone would not allow a business to flourish within the FSA regulatory regime, and that competence was the essence of development. Mac Eddey reviews the questions he set the case for being Lions rather than porcupines and ostriches was proposed last week and ...
