Analysis
Personalise insurance or fall foul of disruptors
The potential of personalisation and embedded insurance continue to excite the insurance market. David Worsfold explores what progress is being made and whether the innovation is being driven by mainstream players, disruptors or a combination of the two.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: AIG
AIG holds steady in fifth place on Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List in 2024.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Convex UK
Convex UK is the newest company - only created in 2019 - to appear towards the peak of Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List in 2024.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Allianz
Allianz has made significant strides to increase the brand’s presence in the UK and remains in the Top 10 of Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Admiral
As Admiral celebrates the 20th anniversary of listing on the London Stock Exchange, the only Welsh company in the FTSE 100 has leapt from eighth place on last year’s Top 100 UK Insurers List to seventh place in the 2024 rankings.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Direct Line Group
Direct Line Group has climbed from fourth place on last year’s Top 100 UK Insurers List to third place in the 2024 rankings.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: RSA
RSA is in fourth place on the Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Aviva
Aviva Insurance Limited is ranked number 1 and Aviva International Insurance Limited is ranked number 2 on the Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Business lines
A ranking of the top 100 UK Insurers for different general insurance business lines, based on data from AM Best’s Financial Suite.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Drastic turnaround in profitability
Major players pulling out or significantly scaling back their personal lines propositions, while others saw commercial lines profits soar, has significantly shaken up Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers rankings in 2024, according to Ben Diaz-Clegg,…
Insurers hike spending on cyber security
Combined cyber security spending for insurance companies and asset managers increased by 53% between 2019 and early 2023, a Moody’s survey has shown.
Lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage
Laura Miller examines how the CrowdStrike outage impacted various insurances, including property, business interruption, professional liability, D&O and product liability insurances.
Alarm bells ring over uptick in buildings insurance complaints
A sharp increase in buildings insurance complaints has sounded alarm bells within the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Six reasons Ageas could be the perfect insurance ‘partner’ for Saga
Content Director’s View: As Saga admits it is in talks with Ageas, Jonathan Swift suggests there is a lot to like about a potential ‘partnership’ between the two, not least as a spring board for further deals.
How the Insurance Post Top 90 MGAs List 2024 was produced
Market analyst Insuramore reviewed revenues – defined as fees and commissions earned in relation to UK-based risks from any kind of direct non-life insurance – to produce Insurance Post’s Top 90 MGAs List.
Insurance Post’s Top 90 MGAs revealed
Ardonagh Group, Brown & Brown, Gallagher, Markerstudy and Policy Expert are the UK’s five biggest MGAs.
Women working in insurance earn 20% less than men
Gender pay disparities in the insurance industry continues to stubbornly persist, with virtually no companies reporting on whether an ethnicity pay gap exists.
Top 30 European Insurers of 2024 revealed
The top 30 European non-life insurers achieved another year of solid top line growth in 2023 with the average growth rate of the companies being 9.8%.
Claims service continues to improve
The trend of overall improvement in claims service seen in the UK market continued in the second quarter of 2024.
How insurers address evolving supply chain risks
How incidents like the attacks in the Red Sea, drought in the Panama Canal and Baltimore bridge collision have the potential to create cascading exposures for insurers is examined by Tim Evershed.
Travel insurers that satisfy customers revealed
Saga, LV, Tesco Bank, Multitrip.com, and AA have the happiest travel insurance customers, according to the latest Fairer Finance survey.