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Marsh and Allianz lead winners at CII Exam Awards
This year’s Chartered Insurance Institute Apprenticeship Awards and Qualification Prizegiving saw several major insurance groups collect multiple honours.
Big Interview: Xavier Laurent, CEO of Covéa Insurance
In his first major UK interview, freshly appointed CEO of Covéa Insurance Xavier Laurent shares how he will keep the provider on the course set by his predecessor Georges de Macedo, and explains why he won't chase growth for growth’s sake.
Allianz UK creates head of AI role
Allianz UK has appointed Mansoor Reehana to the newly created head of artificial intelligence role.
Zurich looks to leverage capabilities of engineering arm
Zurich Engineering is increasingly working with the insurer’s other business units to cross-sell services, its head of inspection services Adrian Reeve has told Post.
How insurance can realise the personalised motor policy dream
Damisola Sulaiman analyses the landscape of usage-based motor insurance, including its tailwinds, previous failings and recent innovations that may turn the personalised motor insurance dream into a reality.
Motor market softening puts spotlight on service
Allianz is putting greater emphasis on service and claims delivery in commercial motor amid market softening, Mike Thomas, broker distribution director has told Insurance Post.
Commercial motor pricing stabilised but capacity constraints remain
Price increases in the UK commercial motor market have subsided over the course of 2025, but capacity constraints remain in pockets, according to several brokers and providers that spoke to Post.
Can non-standard motor find growth in a soft market?
Amid an increase in interest and inquiries for non-standard motor insurance, how much is the industry growing, and which segments have the most potential?
Lloyd’s leads City breast and chest cancer checks campaign
Lloyd’s will host what organisers claim is the largest ever City-wide workplace health and wellbeing campaign this month.
Inside the shrinking market for HGV insurance
In the wake of exits from the market in recent years, Harry Curtis looks at why insurers are cautious about insuring heavy goods vehicles and how those that do manage it.
Kelsall at Marshmallow no s’more
Marshmallow head of claims Nick Kelsall has left the insurer for Munich Re.
What will impact UK motor moving forward?
Given predictions of the UK motor insurance market going back into the red next year, experts have outlined the factors likely to impact performance and how the industry can mitigate those pressures.
RSA ends and Intact era begins with specialty lines plan
RSA will today (6 October) become Intact Insurance, with the insurer giving a taste of how it plans to double its UK and Ireland business to £5bn by 2030.
Axa’s road safety initiative; Marshmallow’s migrant offering; Bridgehaven joins ABI
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Sparking debate: Lithium-ion risks
The latest episode of the Insurance Post Podcast tackles the growing risks and insurance challenges posed by lithium-ion batteries.
Top 30 European Insurers of 2025 Revealed
Europe’s Top 30 non-life insurers achieved another year of solid top line growth in 2024, with the average rate being 11%.
Winners of British Insurance Technology Awards 2025 revealed
The winners of the second British Insurance Technology Awards were unveiled last night (23 September) at a The Brewery in London.
Which? makes super-complaint against FCA over insurance failings
Which? has issued a super-complaint to the Financial Conduct Authority, accusing the regulator of failing to tackle persistent problems in the home and travel insurance markets.
Allianz UK uncovers £93m in insurance fraud
Allianz UK identified more than 15,800 fraudulent cases across personal, commercial and specialty lines, worth a total of £92.6m in the first half of 2025.
Experts weigh up AI threats and opportunities within fraud
At Insurance Post’s Claims and Underwriting Clubs last week, experts discussed how fraudsters are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence while insurers are also using the technology to fight back.
Allianz Broker raids Ageas for Nicola George’s successor
Glyn Hughes has been named managing director of Allianz Personal Broker, following the departure of Nicola George in late August.
Ditch ‘pre-existing condition’ terminology to fight travel insurance pain point
The industry should leave behind the term ‘pre-existing condition’ in order to lessen the rate of under-declaration in medical screenings, delegates have heard.
Allianz GenAI tool saves 135 days of underwriter time in a year
Allianz has rolled out a generative AI underwriter guidance tool, which has saved underwriters an estimated 65,000 minutes or 135 working days of information gathering since its pilot in September.
Why Kafka-length insurance policies need to go
Editor’s View: Fresh from a summer break, Emma Ann Hughes returns to an inbox brimming with industry news and a stark reminder from Fairer Finance that, two years on from Consumer Duty, insurance documents remain as impenetrable as a Kafka novel.