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Winners of Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards 2025 revealed
Aviva. CFC, Charles Taylor, Crawford & Company, DWF and Markerstudy were all multiple winners at Insurance Post's Claims and Fraud Awards last night (2 October).
British Insurance Technology Awards 2025 shortlist revealed
Insurance Post can reveal the businesses and individuals who have been shortlisted for the 2025 British Insurance Technology Awards.
Claims and Fraud Awards 2025 shortlist revealed
Insurance Post can reveal the businesses and individuals who have been shortlisted for the 2025 Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards.
Big Interview: Mark Eastham, Avantia
Mark Eastham, CEO of Home Protect and Avantia Group, reveals how he will turn the business into the first insurer to have an artificial intelligence-driven operating model, plus whether an acquisition of the non-standard home insurer could be on the…
Questions raised by insurers’ lopsided AI investments
Editor’s View: Artificial intelligence is reshaping the way insurers operate, but Emma Ann Hughes wonders if a lopsided focus on investing in point of sale at the expense of the claims experience could raise eyebrows at the regulator and erode…
Avantia aims to become first insurer with AI-driven operations
Mark Eastham, CEO of Home Protect and Avantia Group, has revealed how he will secure a place among the nation’s top 10 home insurers by becoming the first provider to have an artificial intelligence-driven operating model.
Access deal; Clearspeed’s work with 1st Central; Lockton’s risk lead
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurer: Avantia Group’s Mark Eastham
For Mark Eastham, CEO of Avantia Group, no day is ever the same as it’s a juggle of risk pricing, claims, customer experience and artificial intelligence innovation as well as getting on his bike.
Insurance Post’s Top 90 MGAs revealed
Ardonagh Group, Brown & Brown, Gallagher, Markerstudy and Policy Expert are the UK’s five biggest MGAs.
Diary of an Insurer: Avantia’s Jess Woodhouse
Jess Woodhouse, chief operating officer at Avantia Group’s specialist home insurance provider Homeprotect, is up with the lark (or her children), ready to manage her team and discover new technology.
Insurers embrace AI to help reduce costs, improve efficiency, and speed up claims
AI is transforming the insurance industry. In this final part of Insurance Post’s and PayPal’s three part series, Fiona Nicolson explores how AI could play a role in improving security in the insurance sector and help alleviate the economic pressure…
Top 75 MGAs: Avantia
Avantia, the investment company behind Homeprotect, a direct-to-consumer brand for home insurance, appears in this year’s Insurance Post Top 75 MGAs list.
Top 75 MGAs 2023: £30m - £40m
AutoProtect, Avantia, CFC Group, EGV (Holdings), Howden Group Holdings, and PIB Group achieved MGA/MGU revenues between £30m and £40 from UK-based non-life risks in 2022.
Intelligence: All on board – firms must tackle representation
The Financial Conduct Authority requires listed firms to report on, and disclose, targets on how well represented women and ethnic minorities are on boards and executive management teams. Martin Friel investigates if the regulator has been too light…
Brand exposure and tech front of mind for Avantia as it secures fresh PE backing
Avantia has secured further investment from private equity backers ECI, which it will use to expand the capabilities and applications of its machine learning technology and boost the profile of its Homeprotect brand.
Chubb and Marsh unveil Covid-19 vaccination solution; insurtech investment hits quarterly high; motor/home premiums fall; and Aviva offers cover to new customers affected by cladding crisis
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
Avantia CEO dispels sale rumours
Mark Eastham, Avantia CEO, has dismissed rumours that the company is for sale.
Avantia places up to 30 roles at risk in outsourcing move
Exclusive: Avantia Insurance is in the process of relocating frontline roles to Sheffield, placing between 20 to 30 jobs at risk.
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