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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.

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…

Subsidence is surging yet policyholders remain unaware

Following the warmest and driest spring in more than half a century, Ashley Stevens, senior associate director at building and construction consultancy Brawdia, warns that the insurance industry must shift from a reactive to a preventative mindset on…

Tomorrow’s World: Operational Innovation

How insurers can learn from past digital transformation programmes and boost productivity is the topic of Insurance Post’s latest episode of Tomorrow’s World, about operational innovation.

Styling shifts transform hairdresser insurance

Fiona Nicolson takes a closer look at why the increase in the number of independent and freelance hairdressers in the UK, as well as so-called co-working salon spaces post pandemic, has pushed up the price of hairdressers’ insurance.

The challenge of insuring asylum seeker accommodation

Oli Williamson, co-founder and chief underwriter at Aspect, explores how civil unrest and political tensions are complicating insurance for asylum seeker accommodation and highlights the vital role insurers, developers, and communities must play in…

Diary of an Insurer: Ecclesiastical’s Simon McGill

Simon McGill, schemes development manager of Ecclesiastical, has the pleasure of an early GWR train into London for broker and MGA meetings, takes his terriers Ziggy and Alfie for a walk, and briefs the market on the provider’s expanding schemes…

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