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Archive
Heavy vetting
In the third part of a regular series, Michael Swann of Deloitte & Touche explains the role of approved persons under FSA rules
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News
Cox rises with a little help
Enormous pre-tax and WTC losses crippled Cox and then killed it. But the giant seems to be rising from the underwriting ashes. Jason Woolfe reports
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Comments/Letters
Insurers are losing their friends
Defections and high-level poachings of loss adjusting talent mean insurers will spend more on negotiating claims. It's very worrying, says Andy Cook
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Comments/Letters
Why is good information so hard to come by?
Personal injury has been widely studied and reported on, and another study is underway. But, Marie-Louise Rossi asks, why there are no comparable data on other types of claim
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Playing on both sides
High quality loss adjusting talent is migrating to accountancy firms. Working increasinglyfor insureds, these adjusters will make claims control harder for insurers.
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Archive
Building up the extras
Claims fiddles by builders cost the industry an estimated £300m every year. So why isn't more being done to stop them? And what steps should insurers take? David Moore examines a shady issue
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Archive
Assessing strength
In the third part of a regular series, AM Best provides an introduction to best capital adequacy ratio, its way of addressing the shortcomings of the solvency margin
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Features
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 ...
