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The Central Bank's Strategic Plan 2016-2018 published in 2015 is now well underway. The Bank's Mission Statement ‘Safeguarding Stability, Protecting Consumers' remains at the heart of what it does...

On the 17 December, 2009, the definitive text of the Solvency II Directive (2009/138/EC) was published in the Official Journal.

A recent, preliminary ruling of the Court of Justice of the European UnionOpens in new window (the "ECJ"), in response to a referral made by the German Federal Court, sheds some interesting light...

EIOPA has published Annex II to its Decision on Collaboration Regarding the Transfer of Registered Office of Insurance and Reinsurance Undertakings (Decision), which supplements the 2021 Decision.

On 20 October 2021, the General Scheme of the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021 (General Scheme) was published. The General Scheme will address several insurance-related issues highlighted in the Action Plan...

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Fuelled by cycle of rising and falling insurance premiums, the high level of personal injury awards, and a series of high profile successes against fraudulent claimants, in recent times it seems...

On 1 September, the Minimum Competency Regulations 2017 and the revised Minimum Competency Code 2017

You can get costs against an insurance company even when they legitimately repudiate.

On 19 October 2011, the Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank"), published the revised Consumer Protection Code (the "CPC") which came into effect from 1 January 2012 for regulated entities including banks, insurance and investment companies and intermediaries.

The Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 (‘2023 Act') was signed into law by the President on 5 July 2023. It contains amendments to the Occupiers' Liability Act 1995 (‘1995 Act')...

As Mr Justice Keane recently stated in the High Court case of Brian Maxwell v Irish Life Assurance and others, there is no strict chronological or arithmetical answer to the question ....

On 16 November 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued its final technical advice on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive ("AIFMD") implementing measures.

The Insurance Distribution Directive 2016/97 ("IDD") regulates the way in which insurance products are designed and sold across the EU.

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") recently published an Addendum to the Consumer Protection Code 2012 (the "Addendum") to (the "CPC")...