All AIRMIC Portfolio articles – Page 5
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Hopkin on IPT
Speaking to a forum organised by specialist tax consultancy FiscalReps in the City of London, Hopkin said that insurance buyers need to press for fuller disclosure on IPT compliance, since they ultimately may be liable for unpaid taxes. For their part, insurers and intermediaries need to accept that such requests ...
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AIRMIC dinner speech notes
Former Secretary of Defence Michael Portillo put the value of risk management into a wider perspective when he spoke at the annual AIRMIC dinner. Portillo described the critical balance governments today have to make between fighting terrorism and preserving civil liberties. "It is all about measuring risk," he said.Portillo addressed ...
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Software research
From insurance claims management to sophisticated statistical analysis performing stochastic simulations, software packages offer risk managers an array of tools to do their jobs, and vendors compete
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Portillo to speak at annual dinner
Michael Portillo, former Conservative cabinet minister and one-time contestant for the Conservative Party leadership, is to speak at the AIRMIC annual dinner on 6 December. The second speaker is finan
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AIRMIC to help launch Prorim
AIRMIC executive director David Gamble and administrative assistant Chloe Green will take part in the formal launch of Prorim, the European risk management training program, in Brussels on 11 October
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New chairman comments
From insurance to trainers via construction and jeans with a detour into music is a succinct description of the career path of AIRMIC's new chairman, Geoff Taylor.
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Market responds to risk managers' concerns
AIRMIC's regular survey of its members indicates a stable or slightly weakening insurance market, a good level of satisfaction with brokers' disclosure of their remuneration and optimism about achievi
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CHAIRMAN DESIGNATE
Geoff Taylor is the chairman designate of AIRMIC for 2006-7 Currently deputy chairman, he is due to be formally elected at the annual conference on 14 June in Bournemouth.
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Government support for rehabilitation
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, government spokesman on Work and Pensions in the House of Lords, has welcomed the joint campaign by AIRMIC and the Confederation of British Industry to promote workplace reha
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A new spin on the airmic conference
John Tiner, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has one of the most important roles in the country in relation to the work of most AIRMIC members, but it is not immediately clear
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Rehabilitation event
Department for Work and Pensions Minister Lord Hunt is the keynote speaker at the next event in AIRMIC's campaign to promote greater use of rehabilitation for employee injury and illness. David Ireland of the international construction company Vinci will chair the event, which takes place on 22 March at the ...
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Training in enterprise risk management
AIRMIC is offering four training courses on enterprise risk management (ERM) free to members. The courses, which will conducted by Paul Hopkin in his role as principal of risk assurance, will take place in London, Edinburgh and probably also in Manchester, with the first one on 8 March. They explain ...
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Catastrophe and contract uncertainty
Contract certainty - the ability of insurer, loss adjuster and policyholder to know the wording of a policy when there is a major loss - emerged as a pivotal issue during the presentations to a joint
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Issues have not gone away
Now that companies will have gone through at least one insurance renewal since broker remuneration became such a contentious issue, AIRMIC would like members to share their experience, says chairman Peter Berring."We still need to see clarity on the issue of contingent revenue," he comments. "It has certainly not gone ...
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Growing rehabiliation
AIRMIC is expanding the activity of its rehabilitation group, which promotes an active approach to staff welfare The group, which has previously met on an informal basis, has elected David Ireland as
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Contract certainty
Contract certainty - the issues around insurance documentation - is important to commercial insurance buyers, and AIRMIC has organised a series of roadshows on the subject for its members in November
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AIRMIC TO MEET FSA OVER SOLVENT SCHEMES
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has agreed to meet an AIRMIC task force
