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Dive In 2026 opens registration for final festival year
Registration has opened for the final Dive In festival, with Lloyd’s famous diversity and inclusion event this year exploring how human skills and artificial intelligence can work together.
Flock unveils AI assistant for UK fleet insurance clients
Flock has launched an artificial intelligence-powered fleet management assistant that analyses driving, claims and telematics data to help customers identify risks and prevent accidents.
Admiral backs government-led financial services skills drive
Admiral has joined more than 20 financial services firms committing to invest in workforce skills, develop talent pipelines and tackle sector-wide skills gaps through a new government-backed agreement.
Wakam UK enters roadside assistance with PIB partnership
Wakam UK has entered the roadside assistance market through a three-year partnership with Rescuemycar.com, the breakdown cover specialist part of PIB Group.
Which? and MoneySuperMarket announce insurance partnership
Which? and MoneySuperMarket have partnered to launch a service aimed at “transforming insurance comparison services”.
Antares CEO Mike van der Straaten passes away
Mike van der Straaten, CEO of Antares, passed away over the weekend following a short illness, a statement from the business has confirmed.
Job losses likely as Allianz Commercial restructures management layers
Allianz Commercial is overhauling its UK underwriting model by product line, and merging branch and regional management roles, leading to job losses, Insurance Post can reveal.
Zurich Municipal gears up for local council overhaul
Zurich Municipal has launched a new insurance product aimed at protecting the shadow authorities being established to oversee England's largest programme of local government reorganisation in more than 50 years.
Allianz’s Ben Fletcher named GIFC chair
Allianz’s director of financial crime, Ben Fletcher, has been named chair of the General Insurance Fraud Committee, replacing Adele Sumner.
Open GI x Covéa; Aviva’s cyber cover; PIB’s CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Brettell reshapes Zurich Municipal for evolving risks
Four years on from taking charge of Zurich Municipal, Amy Brettell has revealed how the specialist insurer has undergone a fundamental transformation to help it best serve public sector and voluntary organisations facing increasingly complex risks.
Post’s Sulaiman wins WTW media interview award
Former Insurance Post senior reporter Damisola Sulaiman has been named Risk Profile Interviewer of the Year at the 2026 WTW Media Awards, recognising work she produced while at the title.
Marco Distefano departs Axa UK
Marco Distefano, managing director of retail home and motor at Axa UK, has departed the business, Insurance Post can reveal.
Defra sets out vet reforms to ‘radically modernise the industry’
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has today (9 July) set out what it calls “the most significant overhaul of veterinary regulation in six decades”.
Copart promotes UK CEO Pocock to president
Copart has promoted UK CEO Jane Pocock to president, effective as of 1 August.
Minster Law reports 230% uptick in alternative dispute resolution
The motor claims insurance industry should become more proactive with using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to cut costs and court waiting times, says Minster Law’s chief commercial officer Paul Taylor as the law firm reports a 230% year-on-year…
FCA insists delegated authority review isn’t challenge to MGAs
The Financial Conduct Authority’s work around outsourced and delegated authority work is not to challenge the model, but more to gain an understanding of the way the sector works.
QBE’s Wallace on IUAD’s lasting legacy in dementia fight
Insurance United Against Dementia has evolved from a fledgling fundraising campaign into the insurance industry’s recognised source of support for the neurocognitive disorder, according to founding board member Chris Wallace.
Insurers told to brace staff for AI disruption
Artificial intelligence will reshape rather than replace many roles, provided insurers invest in training and encourage employees to experiment safely, according to panelists at the Managing General Agents' Association conference.
London Market Group reveals collapse in early careers hiring
Early careers hiring in the London market has fallen by almost a quarter, with another 25% decline forecast next year, prompting warnings that under-30s could account for just 7% of the workforce within a decade.
Duck Creek buys Send to bolster AI underwriting platform
Duck Creek Technologies has bought underwriting orchestration specialist Send Technology Solutions, creating what the company claims is the insurance industry’s first agentic underwriting-to-core platform.
ACSO director Matthew Maxwell-Scott passes away
Executive director of the Association of Consumer Support Organisations, and CEO of the recently launched Consumer Legal Association, Matthew Maxwell Scott, has passed away aged 49.
MGAs ‘must have a plan B to survive soft market’
While he said the MGA market is “one of the most exciting and consequential inflexion points” in his 50-year career, McGill chair Jon Lloyd said “we will now see who the real players are in a soft market”.
Winslow named CFC CEO as O’Shea steps down
CFC has hired former Direct Line Group chief executive Adam Winslow as group CEO, succeeding Louise O’Shea who is stepping down.