insurers

Ageas has completed its sale of Ageas Protect Limited for £197m to American International Group (AIG).

Beagle Street has turned its life insurance customers' policy documents into works of art to help them avoid losing their policy details.

Barnett Waddingham has launched ‘SIIMPLIFY' which will allow companies to calculate standard formula capital requirements for Solvency II.

The Legal Ombudsman will from January 2015 deal with complaints about claims management companies (CMCs).

The role of insurers and financial advisers is ‘critical' to the advice challenge on long-term care (LTC) fees, delegates heard at the 2014 COVER Forum.

Less than a third of people trust insurance providers with numbers proving hard to improve.

Global life premiums grew by 0.7% in 2013 to $2.608bn, down from 2.3% growth in 2012; research has found.

Almost three quarters of intermediaries have warned that the weight of regulation is damaging insurers' customer service, in a survey conducted by EDM Group.

Whole of life sales have plummeted following a change in non-investment linked marketing emphasis among providers, Swiss Re's Term and Health Watch 2013 has shown.

The number of on-site ‘ARROW' inspections of insurers by the FSA has jumped 38% over the year, with 47 visits in 2012 to (to September 30) compared to 24 for 2011, according to law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP (RPC).