Editor’s letter – May 2011

Judging by our reportage on regulation, the powers that be in Whitehall have no intention of relieving the pressure on brokers. This is despite the fact that the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) commissioned independent research that found the risk posed by the general insurance broking community was rather limited.

And of course, the ever-present PPI has reared its head again, the Bribery Act is still rattling cages and, as the Power hour shows, the legal expenses market is coming to terms with wholesale legislative changes.

It often seems all we talk about is regulation and legislation and it gets a bit wearing. But if it is getting tedious to write about, readers must be at the end of their tether actually dealing with it.

However, our coverage of regulatory and legislative matters over the last couple