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Zurich targeting 30% SME growth in 2025
Nikki Lidster, head of SME and trading at Zurich UK, has revealed the insurer is targeting 30% GWP growth in its SME business in 2025.
Markel’s Galjaard outlines plan to double the UK business
Markel’s UK managing director Neil Galjaard shared the business has just signed off a growth strategy that aims to double the size of the business by 2030.
Allianz invests £750m in three years amid commercial ‘re-platforming’
Nick Hobbs, chief distribution officer at Allianz Commercial, has told Insurance Post that the insurer has invested three-quarters of a billion in changes in the last three years, including re-platforming its commercial business.
Aviva and CyberCube track cyber attackers’ behaviour
Aviva and CyberCube are using artificial intelligence to map the behaviour of cyber threat actors and identify what businesses could soon be attacked.
Sedgwick’s Blunt says lack of future insurance CEOs is ‘our fault’
Sedgwick’s managing director for its Talent Solutions unit, Carolyn Blunt, has said it is the industry’s fault that we are seeing a lack of future CEOs coming through.
Insurance figures richer than The King revealed
Admiral’s founder Henry Engelhardt is now the richest man in insurance, according to this year’s The Sunday Times Rich List.
Claims service improves but regional delivery varies
The general insurance market overall is continuing its improvement in claims service at the start of 2025 but there is massive variation between the best and worst performing providers plus significant variations depending on where brokers are located in the UK.
Diary of an Insurer: Gallagher’s Ayshea King
Ayshea King, energy claims handler of Gallagher, plays netball with Lloyd’s, studies for Chartered Insurance Institute examinations and explains how she switched from being a midwife to supporting clients in the renewables industry.
AI will have a greater role to play in claims despite initial hesitancy
While the insurance sector has reservations about artificial intelligence being used to decline claims and determine liability, the technology is going to have a greater role to play in claims, including larger ones.
The Insurance Post Power List 2025 is available now
We reveal today’s movers and shakers in the industry by measuring their influence and impact on the market.
What’s included?
- A list of insurance’s biggest players today
- Insurance Post Podcast: Listen and find out what it takes to climb to the top of the insurance market
- Ones to watch: The players with growing influence who look set to feature in future rankings
Editor’s Choice
What is making waves in marine insurance
The marine insurance industry is navigating turbulent waters as it heads into 2025 from shifting market dynamics to emerging risks, Harry Curtis examines how insurers are balancing a complex set of challenges.
State of the nation’s roofs: A top-down perspective
John Kimmance, chief customer officer of Ordnance Survey, reveals the depth of the data his organisation has on the state of the nation’s roofs, including the risk and insurance ramifications of their use, construction material and age.
Gibson, Johnson and Malik... do we read too much into parting words?
Content Director’s View: With a trio of senior claims managers moving on in recent weeks, Jonathan Swift reflects on whether they were given enough due praise, and as a consequence did their outgoing employers open themselves up to people reading too much into innocuous statements.
How IT innovation is affecting insurance brokers
As thousands pack their bags for next week’s British Insurance Brokers’ Association conference in Manchester, Tom Luckham explores the ongoing reinvention of insurance distribution and the different challenges as well as opportunities this new era creates for small, independent intermediaries compared to their larger rivals.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024
Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list has been shaken up by tough times for motor insurers in 2023 and a shift to more profitable lines among major players in the market
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Insurance industry’s most powerful players revealed
Making multi-billion-pound takeover bids for rivals and challenging political posturing is what it took to secure the top spots on Insurance Post’s 2025 Power List.
State of the nation’s roofs: A top-down perspective
John Kimmance, chief customer officer of Ordnance Survey, reveals the depth of the data his organisation has on the state of the nation’s roofs, including the risk and insurance ramifications of their use, construction material and age.
How RSA’s exit and FCA action transformed motor insurance
How the exit of RSA from personal lines, plus extra regulation, caused motor insurers to slash windscreen cover, increase fees and up their game when it comes to accident management services is examined by Mike Powell, insight manager for banking and general insurance at Defaqto.
Insurers struggle to fill IT and data job vacancies laid bare
Roles that are critical to core insurance operations are still heavily concentrated in London, plus providers are struggling to fill their IT and data roles, data analysis produced by Michael Stefan, partner at executive recruitment firm Hanover, has revealed.
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