Content Director’s View: With a host of recent – mostly surprising – announcements relating to short leadership/CEO stints, Jonathan Swift revisits his column from last February where he awarded the crown for briefest tenure at the top to Ardonagh’s Ian Donaldson.
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Following rumours Lloyd’s shelved Blueprint Two after years of delays, Insurance Post asks if the market still needs the programme when both businesses and technology have changed drastically in the seven years since its inception.
View from the Top: Sam Thomas, head of retail underwriting at Zurich UK, looks at how insurance turns tomorrow’s breakthroughs into insurable realities.
Verisk’s new CEO of general insurance for the UK and Ireland sits down with Harry Curtis to discuss plans to encourage cross-pollination between the company’s GI and specialty businesses.
View from the Top: Jon Cope, managing director of specialty lines at Intact Insurance, predicts broker facilities will continue to drive the market in 2026.
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to January 1991 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when the Gulf War saw Lloyd’s remain open at the weekend and Royal, now known as Intact, wanted to raise brand awareness.
Lloyd’s chief of market performance Rachel Turk has highlighted areas in which she thinks the market can continue to grow in a pricing environment that she characterised as “softening” but not yet “soft”.
13 Feb 2026
