Wild is the wind

With the increasingly unpredictable nature of extreme weather events, some argue that historic data can no longer be relied upon. Sam Barrett looks into event-based risk analysis and the benefits it can bring to insurers

With four major hurricanes hitting the US in 2004 - resulting in a record level of losses - and an unprecedented number of typhoons battering Japan, many felt that a trend of escalating claims as a

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Is the home insurance market set for a reckoning?

Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes warns home insurers to brace themselves to be the next target of policyholders’ wrath as moaning motorists are replaced by angry-looking property owners on national newspapers’ personal finance pages.

Q&A: Ben Smyth, Arma Karma

Ben Smyth, CEO of contents insurance start-up Arma Karma, talks to Tom Luckham about the insurtech’s past, future, and how young people view insurance.

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