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Why insurance belongs at the heart of the carbon transition
View from the Top: George Beattie, head of innovation at CFC, explains how insurance was the lynchpin of a landmark multimillion carbon credit deal.
Throwback Thursday: Lit streets and radar reflections
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to September 1945 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when burglary insurance providers had their hopes raised by lit streets.
CFC appoints Jane Poole as group CFO
Former Direct Line Group chief financial officer Jane Poole will be joining CFC in September, subject to regulatory approval.
Big Interview: Andrew McMellin, Markel
Andrew McMellin, president of Markel International, sits down with Harry Curtis to talk about the insurer’s plans to hit $5bn premium by 2030, rebalance its portfolio, and how it’s using AI to turn the distribution chain on its head.
Ferma urges insurers to ditch transition risk exclusions
The Federation of European Risk Management Associations has called for insurers to stop imposing “blanket exclusions or one-size-fits-all pricing” when insuring transition-related risks.
Q&A: Testudo’s George Lewin-Smith
George Lewin-Smith, CEO and co-founder of Testudo, shares his pioneering work to create a new category of insurance purpose-built for the generative artificial intelligence era by using real-time litigation data and working with Lloyd’s.
Why it’s time to rethink what adequate cybersecurity looks like
Johnty Mongan, global head of cyber risk management at Gallagher, argues prevention is the best cure and urges organisations to raise their cybersecurity standards.
Sompo strikes £2.6bn deal to acquire Aspen
Sompo has agreed to acquire Aspen in a deal worth approximately $3.5bn (£2.6bn), with the transaction expected to close in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.
Architects take first step towards mutual insurer
Architects have taken the first step towards setting up an insurance mutual with a new scheme to provide professional indemnity cover to small-to-medium-sized practices.
Insurance push needed to tackle women’s rugby online abuse
Imogen Mitchell-Webb, head of sport at law firm HF, has called on insurers and brokers to assist in curbing the prominence of online abuse in women’s rugby.
Tomorrow’s World: Product Development
As customer expectations shift and data becomes more powerful, the latest episode of Insurance Post’s Tomorrow’s World series reveals how insurers are rethinking how products are developed to stay relevant and future-ready.
Protecting the tools of tradesmen
With theft affecting the majority of UK tradespeople, Fiona Nicolson examines rising losses, underinsurance, and strain on trade tool insurers.
RSA calls on industry to act to avoid liability ‘landmine’
RSA has called on the wider insurance industry to help thousands of businesses ensure they don’t fall foul of new legislation and open themselves up to criminal liability.
Climate change fuels demand for UK offshore wind cat model
The effects of climate change have created demand for more granular catastrophe models for offshore wind projects in the UK, according to head of renewables, power and energy at McGill & Partners Tom Sexton.
Insurance’s role in the new nuclear age
View from the Top: Clifford Blayney, head of power and offshore sustainable energy at Markel, calls on insurers to innovate new products to support the nuclear renaissance.
Tomorrow’s World: Pricing Practices
With data capabilities, artificial intelligence and real-time analytics continuing to evolve, the latest episode of Insurance Post’s Tomorrow’s World series explores the growing pressure insurers face to make pricing more sophisticated, transparent, and…
Handling film production claims caused by climate change
Extreme weather is forcing film and television productions, insurers and loss adjusters to rethink cover limits for climate-related disruptions, according to Marion Jones, director of Spotlite Claims.
Bspoke independence ‘set in stone’ after acquisition
NFP has committed to allowing Bspoke to run “completely independently”, having brought a long search for an MGA acquisition target to an end with the deal struck last week.
Aviva’s Storah flags quick wins with Direct Line
Jason Storah, Aviva’s UK and Ireland general insurance CEO, has outlined early operational wins from the Direct Line takeover, and shared his growth plan for personal, commercial and specialty lines for the latter half of 2025.
Aviva’s Direct Line deal triggers £500 staff gift
Aviva has posted an operating profit of £1.07bn for the first half of 2025, up 22% on the start of 2024, and to “celebrate and recognise the acquisition” of Direct Line is giving £500-worth of free shares to staff in September.
Beazley share price falls 12% after revised growth forecast
Beazley saw its share price fall by 12% today (13 August) after publishing half-year results that showed lower profits and included revised premium growth guidance.
RSA-to-Intact rebrand to kickstart with e-trade products
RSA is set to mark its imminent rebrand to Intact by rolling out five new e-trade products designed to bring together the best of the existing RSA and NIG product sets, according to commercial lines managing director Tovah Grosscurth.
Wedding venue’s Covid fight with RSA drags on
A Devon wedding venue’s dispute with its insurer RSA is still rumbling on more than five years after the first government Covid restrictions were put in place, and more than eight months after the complaint it lodged with the Financial Ombudsman Service…
Big Interview: Peter Beaumont, CEO of Cornish Mutual
Peter Beaumont, CEO of Cornish Mutual, shares why he swapped the Tolworth Tower for Truro to modernise the mutual and how the business is helping farmers stay resilient amid economic, political and climate pressures.