Dane Douetil, chairman of the London Market Reform Group

Why, for the first time in several generations, there is now a climate in which the senior people in the market place, both brokers and underwriters, are pushing for change in the way subscription business is processed

It is difficult to think of anyone in the London insurance market right now who has a better overview of the subscription market’s efforts (or, according to some commentators, distinct lack of effort) to overhaul its business processes and practices than Dane Douetil, the chief executive of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC, the UK based insurance and reinsurance group which last year wrote a gross premium income of £1.2bn.