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FACULTY FOCUS

Insurance Broking Faculty


A market forum for everyone working in insurance broking


The Insurance Broking Faculty is a market forum managed by experts in the broking market combined with the direction and support from the CII. It is for everyone who works in the broking market no matter what their level of experience.

For further information on the faculty click here. This is the official archive of the faculty.



Please note the documents listed on this page are available to members and subscribers only unless indicated otherwise. If you are not already logged in you will be asked to do so before the required file is delivered.

Technical Focus | Regulatory News | Legal Digest | Insurance Research and Practice | Reports | CII Faculty Xpress | Professional Pointers (2006–2008) | Newsletter (2005) | Presentations (2005–2006) | Also on this site ...



Technical Focus

For earlier articles see Professional Pointers.

NO 1 (MARCH 2008)
Environmental liabilities and insurance: an update
By David Brierley, MA (Oxon)
Environmental risks manager, Bridge Insurance Brokers Limited

NO 2 (MAY 2008)
Directors' and officers' liability
By Rowland Dicken, ACII, Chartered Insurance Practitioner
Technical training consultant, Towergate Partnership

SPECIAL ISSUE (JUNE 2008)
Senior management responsibilities: the FSA’s new approach to pursuing enforcement action against approved persons
By Nathan Willmott
Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP

NO 3 (JULY 2008)
Using CCTV to reduce risk
By Pauline Norstrom
CCTV section chairman, British Security Industry Association

 

Regulatory News

For earlier news see Professional Pointers.

No 1 (March 2008)

No 2 (April 2008)

No 3 (May 2008)

No 4 (June 2008)

No 5 (July 2008)

No 6 (August 2008)

 

Legal Digest

This series of legal articles is being published in association with all of the CII's general insurance faculties. The following articles are published in association with the Insurance Broking Faculty. For a full list of articles click here.

NO 9 (MARCH 2008)
Notifications: insureds to reveal all
HLB Kidsons v Lloyd's Underwriters
First instance 9 August 2007
Professional indemnity – notification – specificity required

NO 20 (APRIL 2008)
Three little words – £50m lost
Standard Life Assurance Limited v Oak Dedicated Limited and others
Commercial Court 13 February 2008
Mortgage endowment mis-selling – aggregation – brokers' duties

NO 23 (MAY 2008)
Non-disclosure of a complaint believed to be trivial
Zeller v British Caymanian Insurance Company Ltd (Cayman Islands)
Privy Council (on appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands) 16 January 2008
Health insurance – avoidance – non-disclosure

NO 26 (JUNE 2008)
The scope of public liability insurance
Tesco Stores v David Constable and others
Court of Appeal 22 April 2008
Construction – public liability insurance – economic loss

NO 32 (JULY 2008)
Brokers fail to obtain surplus cover
Ramco Ltd v Weller Russell & Laws Insurance Brokers Ltd
First instance 13 June 2008

Insurance brokers – negligence – purchase of inadequate cover

NO 36 (AUGUST 2008)
Interpretation of public liability policies
Bedfordshire Police Authority v Constable and others
First instance 20 June 2008

Public liability insurance – interpretation – breach of statutory duty

NO 38 (SEPTEMBER 2008)
US services of suit and London arbitration clause: where to sue
Ace Capital Ltd v CMS Energy Corporation
First instance Commerical Court

Jurisdiction – anti-suit injunction – arbitration

 

Insurance Research and Practice

Insurance Research and Practice is a peer-reviewed series of research papers
published as a regular supplement to the CII's Journal. The following papers have been published in association with the Insurance Broking Faculty. For a complete list of papers, click here.

NO 3 (APRIL 2008)
Broking in 2012 : consolidation or bust?
By Mark Grice, Sarah Ouarbya, Margarita Rodriguez-Piza and Stephen Temple
Mazars LLP

NO 5 (AUGUST 2008)
Has captive insurance truly earned its place in risk financing?
By Callum Beaton, FCII, Chartered Insurer
Principal, Callum Beaton (Insurance Consulting) Ltd

 

Reports

CII SPECIAL REPORT
Opinion leader research: broker and insurer relations in a regulated world
Research commissioned by the faculty in association with Oracle. Looks at the current state of play and evolutionary trends marking out the future of the industry. Published 2006

 

CII Faculty Xpress

A monthly newsletter e-mailed to members by the Insurance Broking Faculty.

No 1 (March 2008)
PDF version

No 2 (April 2008)
PDF version

No 3 (May 2008)
PDF version

No 4 (June 2008)
PDF version

No 5 (July 2008)
PDF version

No 6 (August 2008)
PDF version

Also on this site …

Members of the faculty have access to a wide range of online technical information as a benefit of membership. The following is just a selection; for a complete guide to what is available see our home page. All members also have access to one of the largest insurance libraries in the world, the CII library.

Fact files

Fact-packed, up to date and easy to digest, our series of technical fact files includes the following broking-related titles:

E-commerce in insurance
The Financial Ombudsman Service and general insurance
Flood risks and insurance
The professional liability of insurance brokers
The regulation of general insurance and protection business
The regulation of general insurance intermediaries

A wide range of other titles is available on insurance and financial services. Click here for a complete list.

Market data

This collection of key statistics includes salary data for:

  • London retail broking house technical staff (global multinational account managers);
  • regional commercial broking and claims staff;
  • regional personal lines brokers including motor, household, PA, travel etc.
Global web directory

This directory lists, categorises and describes over a thousand websites from all over the world focusing on insurance, risk and related financial services.

Knowledge gateway

A gateway to published material, whether online or printed - books, reports, journal articles, websites, online documents etc. Click here to search the whole gateway, or browse these special links:

Books on insurance broking
Recent articles on insurance broking
Publications on insurance broker remuneration, commission and fees
Publications on the professional liability of insurance brokers
Publications on IT for insurance brokers
Publications on the regulation of insurance brokers

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