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  • Court of Appeal defeat leaves fraud as insurers only defence option as they seek to void film finance losses A landmark Court of Appeal decision has stymied insurers' early successes in voiding film losses that threatens to cost the industry over $2bn
  • Insurers hit by D&O losses in wake of shareholder class-actions over collapsed stock prices History, they say, always repeats itself. Ian Youngman, in his 1999 book Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, observed that the first US D&O policies wer
  • With Independent’s spectacular fall from grace and the continuing controversy over Equitable Life, the industry is yet again in parliamentarian’s bad books. As a consolation, Marcus Scriven traces some of the happier relationships Lloyd’s and insurers hav
  • To avoid over-writing and the shortage of reinsurance, syndicates are buying in-house quota share cover and planning capacity expansions for 2002. But what impact will these have on the 2001 capacity auctions?
  • Term life syndicates face additional hurdles, despite personal accident and contingency syndicates writing conceptually similar business.With only one life syndicate open to external members, perhaps its time for a rethink says Laptop.
  • During the first week of 1999, Illinois’ governor, Jim Edgar, signed a bill permitting mutual insurers domiciled in the Land of Lincoln to convert to mutual insurance holding companies (MIHC). For those who may have forgotten the MIHC is a neutron bomb fo
  • Allegations of fraud might get brokers off the hook, but their earnings could be affected If it wasn't for the grasping compensation culture, then it's quite conceivable that the Independent empire could have tottered onwards until - presumably - “Bri
  • Market optimistic over recovery as capacity shrinks London Market liability rates have soared in the light of the capacity crunch caused by the withdrawal of a host of carriers. The collapse of specialist casualty insurers such as Independent and HIH,
  • 2 January Independent begins the year ostensibly in good cheer. The stock price sat at a record high at 401.5p, valuing the company at almost £1bn and Michael Bright's 6.18% stake at around £60m. But not all was well. In 2000 some of Independent’s rein
  • Credit Suisse bailed out after commissioning highly critical reports of the management and underwriting of HIH’s London operations five years before it collapsed HIH's London operations were mismanaged with business written “without appropriate infras