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Insurance & Reinsurance

Referral fees – cash in while you can

1 June 2011 alastair walker 1

Understandably the insurance industry reacted negatively to the news, but in the end cold, hard cash did the talking some days later. on 31st May, stock market analyst Collins Stewart was bullish about the prospects of FTSE 100 darling Admiral Insurance precisely because of the LSB’s protectionist stance. Referral fees are to continue and Admiral will carry on earning a tidy sum from them; a fact that won’t have gone unnoticed by the many pension funds with holdings in the motor insurer. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Something for personal injury lobbyists in 2011?

7 December 2010 alastair walker 1

It took the insurance trade media a couple of weeks to notice that the Discount Rate was officially under review but this certainly got the defendant lobby talking amongst themselves with the actuaries pulling out their calculators first off. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Insurance and legal roundup; fight over MOJ portal reignites

21 October 2010 alastair walker 0

“It’s great, and so are we” say the insurers. “The system’s being abused and they’re taking advantage of it,” say the lawyers. Well which is it? Two very different angles about the the MOJ portal appear in today’s Post Mag and Law Soc Gazette.

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HR & Employment

From facebook to sales book – Postonline

9 April 2010 alastair walker 0

From facebook to sales book – Postonline. Social networking, broker focus  This piece by Amy Ellis looks into the facebook/twitter/linkedin world of social networking and asks brokers if they reckon they can use it to […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

Solvent schemes back in the UK… for now

1 February 2010 0

Last week’s decision by the Inner Court of Session, which upheld Scottish Lion’s appeal against the dismissal of its proposed solvent scheme of arrangement drew blanket coverage in the (re)insurance press. The original decision had […]