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Budget 2012: Government affirms drive to tackle compensation culture
The government has affirmed its commitment to work with the insurance industry to stamp out compensation culture in the 2012 Budget.It said it had agreed with insurers that the industry “commits to challenge vexatious civil claims in order to tackle the compensation culture” and that it was “working with business ...
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Omnibus II vote: good and bad news
The proposed changes to Solvency II have finally been voted through.
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Solvency II transposition deadline brought forward two months
European Parliament passes crucial vote on Omnibus II package
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Snapshot: mega-brokers’ full-year results
Insurance Times analyses the biggest brokers’ 2011 performance
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16-22 March: Saxon East's week
A busy week as I fit in premiership football between fielding claims farmer nuisance calls
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Acquisitions on hold at Oval as new boss Blanc goes for organic growth
Meanwhile, rival Giles’s group MD Sarah Lyons exits amid contract ‘issues’
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Aviva's Biggs to chair Direct Line - reports
Mike Biggs is currently chairman of takeover specialist Resolution
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AJG Underwriting boss eyes international expansion
AJG Underwriting Group managing director Sian Fisher says “there is nothing to stop” its international expansion
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Ecclesiastical suffers £7.7m loss for 2011
UK liability claims and natural catastrophes in Australasia hit insurer hard
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Beazley acquires 25% stake in Equinox Global
Lloyd’s cover holder forms strategic partnership with insurer
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Winds of change for consolidators
Management musical chairs at both Oval and Giles prompt big questions over their future plans
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Energy consultancy firm sues Lloyd's insurers for £3m
RSA, Mitsui, Argo, Novae, Chaucer and Liberty all included in the writ issued at the High Court
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iprism and Durell launch broker e-trading platform
New platform aims to compete with existing offerings
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Legal blog: Time is ripe for reform
The TUC is wrong to call for employers’ liability claims to be removed from Jackson
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BPF calls for urgent renewal of flood cover agreement
2013 expiry of Statement of Principles could start hitting policyholders in four months