Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Mark Brown, general secretary of the independent BTU union, said Lloyds seemed to be “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” just as the lender was under scrutiny as part of an industry-wide probe into...
...“The BMA would not approve any transaction that the [insurance company’s home] regulator does not support,” said the BMA....
...One in four of the companies surveyed already offer private medical insurance, rising to almost half for groups employing more than 1,000 people....
...Signa Development creditors have also formally petitioned for an independent administrator to take control of the company....
...Geico and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance declined to comment. Gen Re did not respond to requests for comment....
...The attorney-general’s office suggested the $175mn bond, which is underwritten by Knight Specialty Insurance Company, should be deemed ineffective, and Trump given another week to find an alternative backer...
...Sources tell Eric and Ian there are three leading candidates, including Peter Eastwood, who runs the fast-growing Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance unit, and Charlie Shamieh, chair of Gen Re....
...medical insurance-funded services is ‘very positive’ or ‘positive’ so independent providers are upbeat about the[ir] prospects.”...
...The private medical insurance sector is booming, with the number of people covered by health insurance hitting 5.8mn in 2022, according to the latest industry data — the highest level since 2008....
...consultant on ethics in insurance....
...independent insurers....
...Earlier this week, Knight Insurance Group, one of more than a handful of companies that make up Hankey’s financial empire, put up a $175mn bond for Donald Trump, an amount the former president had to post...
...Lloyd’s insurers Tokio Marine Kiln, Chaucer and Liberty Specialty Markets are among those that have pledged to hold the risk for a total of £500mn of insurance coverage written in partnership with these...
...Even Coopers, the one large brewery that has stayed independent, has joined the club by brewing Sapporo beers in Australia....
...into bank parent companies....
...Self-pay treatment — not covered by medical insurance or NHS-funded private care — has surged to 32 per cent from pre-pandemic levels, according to the Private Healthcare Information Network, an independent...
...A significant factor has been a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance, or insurance for insurance companies....
...He confirmed the heavily trailed 2p cut in national insurance contributions, a shake-up of the “non-dom” tax regime and the creation of a “British Isa” to encourage investment in UK-listed companies....
...Buyout groups saw that a chain of vets has far greater bargaining power when it comes to negotiating prices with pharmaceutical companies than an independent clinic, said RBC Capital analyst Charles Weston...
...When an AI-powered doctor tells you that you’re just being hysterical, the AI-powered insurance company is unlikely to disagree....
...Their performance was helped by a few big successes such as insurance group Skyward Specialty, which has risen 125 per cent since listing a year ago, and Rayzebio, which is up 244 per cent, driven by news...
...“All of the ones at the beginning of a change in habit are milestones,” said Travis Lundy, an independent special situations analyst who publishes on Smartkarma....
...“Private medical insurance has been slowly declining as a percentage of independent hospital income for years . . . and so has lost some of its bargaining power over doctors,” said Tim Read, a researcher...
...Experts predict hundreds of billions of pounds of liabilities will transfer from company balance sheets to insurance companies as part of a multiyear shift that will redraw the UK’s retirement landscape....
International Edition