Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on the High Court ruling on recoverability of claimants' losses arising from unauthorised insurance activity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the facts surrounding the case and comments on the decision. Findings...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on the High Court ruling on recoverability of claimants' losses arising from unauthorised insurance activity. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the facts surrounding the case and comments on the decision. Findings...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a practical overview of the personal liabilities (criminal, civil and other) that a governor of a French company may incur, to consider the chances that a corporate governor will actually incur personal liability, and to explain the forms of...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to advance marketers' understanding of customer‐based brand equity (CBBE) within the context of a B2B financial service marketing setting. Design/methodology/approach – Two nation‐wide studies were used to investigate whether brands are in fact...

Purpose – To examine the existence of underwriting cycles for the property-liability insurance industry as a whole, and by line of business. Specifically to consider whether the combined ratio is stationary and stable. Design/methodology/approach – The augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test is...

Purpose – To examine whether the properties of the combined-ratio series, an indicator of underwriting profitability in property-liability insurance, have changed over time. Design/methodology/approach – Using the autocorrelation function (ACF) and partial autocorrelation function (PACF), we...

Purpose – To examine whether the properties of the combined‐ratio series, an indicator of underwriting profitability in property‐liability insurance, have changed over time. Design/methodology/approach – Using the autocorrelation function (ACF) and partial autocorrelation function...

Purpose – To examine the existence of underwriting cycles for the property‐liability insurance industry as a whole, and by line of business. Specifically to consider whether the combined ratio is stationary and stable. Design/methodology/approach – The augmented Dickey‐Fuller (ADF) test...