Articles by Insurance Post Staff
Coversure’s latest addition; MS Amlin’s AI tool; PwC’s insurance lead
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Throwback Thursday: Cue’s future threatened
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to November 1996 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when Cue was under threat.
Designing the insurance policy of the future
As AI reshapes commercial insurance, industry experts discuss the role of human judgement, technology and governance in enabling effective underwriting, product development and decision-making.
BIA 2026 winner Q&A: Policy Expert chief claims officer Gary Barker
Gary Barker, chief claims officer, explains how moving from an outsourced solution to an in-house one laid the foundations for Policy Expert having significantly faster claims resolution than the industry standard by blending tech, expertise and…
Tesco launch; Allianz products; Arkel new boss
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Throwback Thursday: Aids debate
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to October 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when the sector was counting the cost of Aids and defending the questions it asked life insurance applicants.
Ardonagh merges global MGA businesses to create $3bn platform Orvia
Ardonagh Group is to merge all of its international managing general agent businesses under the Orvia Underwriting brand creating a platform that controls $3bn (£2.25bn) of gross written premium.
60 Seconds With… LexisNexis’s Carla McDonald
Carla McDonald, director for product management and claims at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, hates ironing, likes to dance to Tina Turner’s Simply the Best, and can’t live without her family.
Aon Re’s UK CEO Andrew Laing passes away
Andrew Laing, CEO of reinsurance for the UK and chairman of global facultative for Aon, has passed away.
Brit’s launch; Apollo x Generali; Acrisure’s UK retail CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Throwback Thursday: Royal retreats from Moscow
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to October 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when Royal International was reconsidering its plans for a Moscow-based insurance company.
What will the insurance policy of the future look like?
Examining the role of agentic AI in tomorrow's underwriting process
Q&A: Kumar Utpal, Decerto
Kumar Utpal, head of business development at Decerto explains how insurers can use AI to beat the fraudsters at their own game, meet Consumer Duty requirements and make more consistent claims decisions.
Howden’s pet launch; Brown and Brown’s grad programme; Flood Re's chair
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Throwback Thursday: ABI’s amateur dispensation
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to October 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when the Association of British Insurers was willing to make allowances for add-on cover.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2026: AIG
AIG slips from seventh position last year to eighth place on Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List in 2026.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2026: Direct Line
Direct Line Group slips from third to fifth place in the Top 100 UK Insurers List 2026 and will disappear from next year’s rankings as the provider is now fully part of Aviva.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2026 table
The top 100 Prudential Regulation Authority regulated companies listed by gross written premium, net written premium, underwriting result, retention ratio, solvency capital requirement and SCR ratio.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2026: Convex
Convex UK climbs from the eighth spot on last year’s list to seventh place on Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List in 2026.
60 Seconds With... LexisNexis’s Tom Clarke
Tom Clarke, motor strategy director of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, would live to be fluent in Spanish, hates cleaning the bathroom, and couldn't live without a passport.
Clear’s M&A; Konsileo’s investment; FOS’s chair
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Shyam Bhatt, Quantexa
Shyam Bhatt, Quantexa’s global head of insurance fraud solutions, offers insights into how it cracked ‘Operation Pot Noodle’, and why it is so important to contextualise claims.
Throwback Thursday: Satellite insurance attempts take-off
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to October 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when our award-winning publication's editor Alyson Rudd examined space insurance.