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Insurance Post’s star-studded Christmas Special for 2025
The award-winning Insurance Post Podcast has signed off the year with a Christmas Special featuring industry heavyweights, newsroom favourites and even a CBeebies-style bedtime story.
Die Hard: Who is insurance’s answer to John McClane?
Content Director's View: Putting aside the argument about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not, Jonathan Swift asks if you have ever wondered who would be the insurance equivalent to NYPD cop turned terrorist plot spoiler John McClane?
Diary of an Insurer: Zurich’s Louise Griffiths
For Louise Griffiths, trading underwriter for Zurich UK, no two days are ever quite the same working in Wales and the south-west region, from growing her own fruit and vegetables to hosting roundtables.
Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Award winners revealed
Tara Foley, CEO of Axa UK & Ireland, has been named Diversity & Inclusion Leader of the Year at Insurance Post’s Diversity & Inclusion in Insurance Awards 2025.
Big Interview: Simon McGinn, CEO of Dual UK
Simon McGinn, CEO of Dual UK, is betting on regional expansion, specialist expertise and empowering underwriting talent, rather than pursuing takeovers, to double the MGA business by 2030.
How insurance fuels the global shift to cleaner energy
As governments and activists call for faster climate action, Damisola Sulaiman digs deep into how the insurance industry is quietly enabling the net zero transition by unlocking investment, managing emerging risks, and helping high-emission sectors go…
PWC’s launch; Bentley’s insurance product; Howden’s group CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Zurich looks to leverage capabilities of engineering arm
Zurich Engineering is increasingly working with the insurer’s other business units to cross-sell services, its head of inspection services Adrian Reeve has told Post.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: L&G’s handbook; iCAN’s popcorn
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
Winners of Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards 2025 revealed
Aviva. CFC, Charles Taylor, Crawford & Company, DWF and Markerstudy were all multiple winners at Insurance Post's Claims and Fraud Awards last night (2 October).
Zurich reveals ‘puzzle pieces’ approach to AI is paying off
Zurich Insurance is reaping the rewards of a modular “puzzle pieces” approach to artificial intelligence, according to Penny Jones, responsible AI lead at the insurer.
CII to adapt for AI-dominated insurance sector
The Chartered Insurance Institute’s CEO Matthew Hill has urged the sector to embrace artificial intelligence “not as a threat, but as a tool”. But warned professionalism, ethics and human judgment must remain central as the technology reshapes the…
Diary of an Insurer: Zurich’s Paula Robinson
Paula Robinson, team manager for Zurich Engineering, scales heights in lifts and cranes but she’s not so keen on underground tunnels.
CII conference to examine how AI is reshaping insurance
“Artificial intelligence won’t replace your job, but someone who uses AI better than you will,” warns Artur Niemczewski, AI champion and former non-executive director of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
Why part-time men are a full-time win for everyone
View from the Top: Having seen the number of men working part-time increase by nearly 50% in recent years, Zurich’s chief HR and sustainability officer Steve Collinson argues the change is good for employees, their families and companies.
Top 30 European Insurers of 2025 Revealed
Europe’s Top 30 non-life insurers achieved another year of solid top line growth in 2024, with the average rate being 11%.
Dive In proves insurance superheroes no longer need masks
Editor’s View: Insurance once rewarded only Superman-style displays of strength, but as Emma Ann Hughes observes, this year’s Dive In shows the sector now thrives when Clark Kent qualities are embraced.
Zurich’s Ahmad on how flexibility fosters faith belonging
Madiha Ahmad, senior data engineer at Zurich, shares how support for her faith and flexible policies have helped her feel truly valued and included.
Smashing the class ceiling in insurance
Damisola Sulaiman examines why social mobility data and initiatives remain patchy in insurance and how recruitment and culture need to change to smash the sector's class ceiling.
How Zurich helped me understand how my mind works
Richard Kirkham, assistant sales manager at Zurich Municipal, shares how being diagnosed autistic, dyslexic and ADHD led to life-changing support and a renewed sense of self at work.
Zurich’s fleet change; Ariel Re’s syndicate; Applied’s purchase
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.