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Objectives To gather empirical evidence on any discrimination based on genetic information shown by the insurance industry in the United Kingdom and to assess how society is likely to handle [...]

Byline: RODD ZOLKOS WASHINGTON-U.S. brokers and U.K. insurers and reinsurers are welcoming streamlined procedures from the U.S. Treasury Department aimed at foreign insurers and reinsurers looking to establish their exemption [...]

Byline: NEIL HODGE BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission last week ended its inquiry into the adequacy of the U.K. government's regulation of Lloyd's of London, indicating it was satisfied with the [...]

LONDON-Lloyd's of London is undergoing a strategic review that could result in significant changes to the way the market is structured, Lloyd's Chairman Sax Riley says. Mr. Riley told the [...]

BIRMINGHAM, England-The U.K. Assn. of Insurance & Risk Managers has unveiled a new set of risk management guidelines to help companies comply with new corporate governance rules. The guidelines, set [...]

LONDON - The deadly bombing this month in Omagh, Northern Ireland, has caused Lloyd's underwriters to reassess terrorism insurance rates in the United Kingdom. In Northern Ireland, a U.K. government [...]

LONDON - Policyholders and other creditors must adhere to claims deadlines enforced by insurer liquidators, the U.K. Privy Council has ruled. A decision by the Privy Council, which consists of [...]

LONDON - Increased competition and relatively light losses - not a recent meeting between Britain's prime minister and the leader of Northern Ireland's Sinn Fein party - are responsible for [...]

LONDON - The tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has prompted organizers to file insurance claims for cancellation or postponement of events during the week of mourning that followed [...]

LONDON - The London market is watching to see who will stay and who will go after the recent completion of Aon Group Inc.'s bid for Alexander & Alexander Services [...]

LONDON - Britain could become the 'audit litigation capital of the world' if the current joint and several liability system is not changed, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England [...]

Ongoing training advocated to raise profile LONDON - Insurance brokers must adopt higher professional standards, including possibly greater regulatory controls, if they want to improve their standing in the global [...]

THE salesman's image is a dicey one at the best of times. But the reputation of those who sell life insurance in Britain has seldom been worse. This week the [...]

IT IS a rum old industry, British life assurance. The wonder is not that it is in some upheaval but that it is not more so-indeed that parts of it [...]

BRITAIN'S life assurance industry is facing an upheaval, thanks to the 1986 Financial Services Act. The numbers of independent financial intermediaries-solicitors, accountants, building societies and banks, as well as insurance [...]

LONDON - The profitability of British insurance companies fell last year and is set to weaken even more this year. Earnings in 1998 also could be down unless underwriters quickly [...]

Perhaps the most cutting dismissal of anybody I can recall was that delivered by Dr Johnson when discussing the playwright Sheridan: 'Why Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull. But it [...]

INSURERS are saying the worst is behind them. This month, three of Britain's five big composites (who write both life and non-life insurance) announced improved first-half results. General Accident (GA) [...]

Death of a sales-pitch AT LAST, one of the world's oldest mob of financial rogues is being brought to book. The recent history of British life assurance has been one [...]