Trade Voice: ABI's Hannah Gurga reinforces the vital role insurance is playing in the midst of the permacrisis
Hannah Gurga, director general of the Association of British Insurers, says the industry needs to shout about the vital role it plays in society, and argues that regulatory reform could enable it to have an even greater impact.
Permacrisis. Never has one word more aptly summed up a year.
Few people would argue with the Collins Dictionary’s word for 2022, given the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russo-Ukrainian War, the
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