Podcasts If you would like a spokesperson to take part in the award-winning Insurance Post Podcasts, please email emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com. The podcasts will be recorded on Thursday 22 January and Thursday 29 January in our studios at Infopro Digital’s offices, 133 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7BX. How insurers ‘break the spell’ of romance scams- What can insurers do to identify potential romance scam victims within claims or payment patterns?
- How can insurers work with banks, dating platforms, regulators and the police to tackle romance fraud?
- What practical tools, technology or policy changes could help protect vulnerable customers?
Will the regulator’s action tame pet insurance costs?- Could the Competition & Market Authority’s proposed reforms curb pet insurance claims inflation, particularly around treatment and repeat prescription costs?
- With the final decision due in March 2026, what compliance and operational challenges should insurers and vet practices be preparing for now?
- Could greater transparency around vet pricing and ownership improve customer understanding and in turn, help rebuild trust and stability in the pet insurance market?
Employers’ liability insurance- How are shifts in hybrid work, gig employment and mental health awareness reshaping employers’ liability exposures?
- What impact are inflation, wage growth and long-tail claims trends having on pricing and reserving?
- How can insurers use data, tech and partnerships to modernise risk assessment and improve claims outcomes?
Features Topic: Is the insurance legal sector still profitable? Writer: Scott McGee (scott.mcgee@infopro-digital.com) Deadline: Friday 19 December With parts of the legal sector facing tighter regulation, increased transparency expectations, and pressure on fees, some firms are struggling to maintain profit margins. - Is there still a profitable niche within insurance-related legal services, or has that window narrowed?
- What recent regulatory changes and shifting client expectations are affecting the sector?
To what extent are these pressures impacting firms’ ability to generate revenue? - What strategies are firms adopting to offset shrinking fee income - such as diversification, technology adoption, or alternative pricing models?
Topic: Who’s winning the war for UK insurers’ tech spend? Writer: Damisola Sulaiman (damisola.sulaiman@infopro-digital.com) Deadline: Wednesday 7 January The UK insurance sector is pouring billions into digital transformation, cloud migration, and artificial intelligence infrastructure. While Amazon retains cloud scale and maturity, Microsoft Azure dominates core system migrations, and Google Cloud is gaining fast in AI, data analytics, and cost transparency, which company is strongest on the use-case battlefield in 2026? Questions for insurers: - Which companies are you using - for what and why?
- Beyond cost savings, can you show tangible outcomes — faster claims, lower fraud, better pricing accuracy?
- How much leverage will you have if a regulator or your board demands a switch of technology provider in a few years’ time?
Questions for insurtechs: - How are these providers solving insurance problems? Share UK-specific insurance references and outcomes, not generic cloud case studies.
- What difference do these technology provider’s governance toolkits, model-explainability options, and audit capabilities in regulated environments have on selection?
- Is it possible for any other company to enter the battlefield and end Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s dominance?
Topic: What insurers need before the roads go driverless Writer: Scott McGee (scott.mcgee@infopro-digital.com) Deadline: Friday 16 January With the first real-world tests of autonomous driving technology set to begin in 2026, how are insurers gathering the data required from connected and autonomous vehicles to underwrite, price and handle claims for driverless vehicles.
- What real-time and event-based data is required from autonomous vehicles to accurately price risk, determine liability and manage claims?
- Have insurers established the right partnerships, protocols and agreements with motor manufacturers to guarantee timely, secure and standardised access to that data?
- Are underwriting models, claims teams, legal frameworks and cyber-resilience plans ready for a future where responsibility shifts from human drivers to vehicle systems and software?
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