A sexual assault survivor has questioned why Ecclesiastical is refusing to pay a claim for a recent attack when a previous, similar claim he made was accepted and settled by the insurer more than a decade ago.
View from the Top: Kevin Morton, head of high net worth and personal lines partnerships at Zurich UK, explains why MGAs are set to remain a central pillar of the insurance market.
As climate volatility disrupts long-established farming traditions, Julian Roberts, managing director of risk and analytics (alternative risk transfer solutions) at WTW, explains why parametric insurance could be the tool that helps farmers plus the wider agricultural supply chain build resilience.
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to December 1985 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when airline terrorism saw insurers pulling away from war risk cover.
Narratives about public bodies such as local authorities being outside of cyber insurers’ appetites are outdated, according to Ed Ventham, director at specialist broker Assured.
Shipbuilding insurance, once a niche part of marine cover, is now expanding rapidly. Fiona Nicolson unpicks the complex projects, new technologies, and sustainability trends that are reshaping global ship construction and the risks insurers must navigate.
With major employers starting to keep tabs on office attendance, Colin Ashworth, managing director of insurance operations at NFP, unpicks the potential claims that could arise from forcing more employees back into the workplace.
Axa is planning to add terrorism cover to its SME products by the second half of next year, as a result of a Pool Re scheme that will offer insurers “significant” discounts to reinsure SME terrorism risk.
A decade of mergers, exits and product withdrawals has reduced provider and product numbers across most commercial insurance segments with the exception of tradesman and professions, which are now driving the only area of growth.
04 Dec 2025
