Articles by Rosie Quigley
Amanda Blanc to become chair of ABI
Amanda Blanc, incoming Zurich Europe CEO, is to become the next chair of the Association of British Insurers.
Insurtech Laka expands to Asia following investment round
Crowd insurance start-up Laka has received £1.1m in seed funding as it prepares to launch in Asia and expand further in the UK.
European insurance stocks took a nose dive after Amazon home insurance rumours
Stocks in European insurance firms took a nosedive today as traders reacted to a report which indicated that tech giant Amazon is looking to offer home insurance.
German insurtech receives $30m funding led by Peter Thiel's VC firm
German start-up Coya has received further series A investment of $30m (£22.37m) led by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures.
Analysis: Is Scotland emerging as a heartland for personal injury claims?
The proposed Civil Liability Bill is set to introduce sweeping changes to the way soft tissue injury claims are paid out in England and Wales. In Scotland though, it would seem as though the effect of the whiplash reforms south of the border could…
QBE Brussels subsidiary granted regulatory approval
QBE Europe has received approval from the National Bank of Belgium to set up a subsidiary in Brussels.
Roundtable: Digital innovation in commercial lines
The terms commercial lines and digital aren't often spoken together - is the problem that the industry doesn't talk about it or is it really not happening in the market?
IFED discovers £165,000 worth of 'opportunistic fraud' in nationwide crackdown
The Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department has launched a ‘crackdown’ of opportunistic fraud within personal injury and property claims.
Aviva ends agency with GRP
Aviva has ended its relationship with Global Risk Partners following its split from two other GRP brokers.
Rising star: Claire Tyler, Allianz
Claire Tyler cut her teeth in insurance during the management trainee graduate programme at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. From there, she entered the Allianz claims graduate scheme and worked her way up to become a senior claims handler
Amazon put on 'beauty parade' to pitch as motor MGA
Exclusive: Amazon put on a ‘beauty parade’ to insurers last December with the intention of pitching itself as a motor managing general agent.
Insurers slammed over auto-renewal 'loyalty tax' of £37m
Insurers have been slammed for increasing rates on auto-renewals, amounting to what campaigners call a 'loyalty tax' of £37m.
Direct cyber market grew 32% last year
US property and casualty insurers wrote $1.8bn (£1.34bn) of direct cyber premium last year, a growth of 32% from the previous year.
Gocompare uses tools to remove unconscious bias in hiring process
Price comparison site, GoCompare has decided to remove candidates’ names from CVs and create an all-female shortlist for its chief marketing officer role, in a bid to attract more female staff.
Lemonade to ditch traditional insurance policies
Lemonade has created an ‘open source’ insurance policy and will eventually stop offering traditional insurance policies to its customers.
Ageas uses full weather reserves on 'Beast from the East'
Ageas used its full weather damage claims allowance for the year during Q1 2018 after the fallout experienced by the Beast from The East.
One Call enters partnership with US connected homes start-up
One Call Insurance has partnered with US connected home start-up, Roost, in order to roll out IoT products across its home insurance product lines.
This week in Post: Dual pricing and declaring bankruptcy
If only online retailers worked in the same way as price comparison sites and insurers.
Industry agrees to tackle dual pricing with sweeping guidelines
Industry bodies for brokers and insurers have agreed guidelines to halt the controversial practice of dual pricing.
Allianz to stop insuring coal power plants and mines
Allianz will stop insuring single coal-fired power plants and coal mines and divest from companies planning to build more than 500 MW of new coal power capacity.
Charles Taylor targets international growth with insurtech acquisition
Charles Taylor Insuretech Limited has acquired Latin American insurance technology software provider Inworx.
Zurich uncertain of staff numbers following underwriting shakeup
Exclusive: Zurich has said it is uncertain as to whether or not it will lose staff as a result of its recent shake up to change where certain types of business are underwritten.
Anti-fraud network becomes associated member of ABI
Anti-fraud network No Office Walls has become an associated member of the Association of British Insurers and has on boarded seven large UK insurers and brokers to the platform.
Risk sharing start-up extends partnership with Zurich
Insurtech start-up Laka has graduated from the Financial Conduct Authority sandbox and will extend its partnership with Zurich.