Insurance and reinsurance

Useful legal information for the insurance and reinsurance sector is provided here. You can also find out about our legal services for the insurance sector (at our sister site).

• Insurance brokers and intermediaries
  The current debate over commission disclosure and conflicts of interest, plus the VAT exemption and Lloyd's reform.
• Competition law and insurance
  The business insurance sector inquiry, the insurance block exemption and investigations into PPI. 
• European developments affecting insurance
  Solvency II, Principles of European Contract Law, plans to modernise VAT, Rome I and Rome II.
• Insurance law
  The Law Commissions' latest proposals for reform.  
• Life insurance
  Recent developments in the life sector, including the Retail Distribution Review, the inquiry into with-profits inherited estates and new rules for permitted links.
• Recent insurance and reinsurance cases
  Summaries of recent decisions of interest.
• Insurance regulation
  The latest regulatory developments including new rules in ICOBS on PPI and on financial promotions. 
• Reinsurance
  The Reinsurance Directive in the UK.

OUT-LAW News on insurance and reinsurance

• Business leaders fear emergence of compensation culture
• FSA to bring EEA branches of UK insurers within compensation scheme
• FSA plans shake-up of retail investment distribution
• FSA warns firms to improve data security
• Financial Ombudsman Service is too 'middle-class', says review