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Clear Group’s Scottish expansion; Bridgehaven’s buy; B.P. Marsh’s CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Allianz x Evoke; Pen’s Bridgehaven partnership; AIG’s chief digital officer
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Tomorrow’s World: Pricing Practices
With data capabilities, artificial intelligence and real-time analytics continuing to evolve, the latest episode of Insurance Post’s Tomorrow’s World series explores the growing pressure insurers face to make pricing more sophisticated, transparent, and…
Tomorrow’s World: Operational Innovation
How insurers can learn from past digital transformation programmes and boost productivity is the topic of Insurance Post’s latest episode of Tomorrow’s World, about operational innovation.
Bridgehaven makes acquisition to unlock EU MGA market
Bridgehaven has acquired Dublin-based insurer SureStone Insurance DAC, which will serve as its launchpad into the European managing general agent market.
Hybrid fronts tipped to become ‘prevailing’ insurance model
Hybrid fronting is increasingly gaining market acceptance and has the potential to become the “prevailing” model of insurance, Bridgehaven chairman Erik Matson has said.
Insurance industry’s most powerful players revealed
Making multi-billion-pound takeover bids for rivals and challenging political posturing is what it took to secure the top spots on Insurance Post’s 2025 Power List.
Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
By making the most of his quarter century of insurance industry experience, Steve Hardy has pushed Policy Expert to rapid growth in recent years.
Paul Jewell, Bridgehaven
Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell launched the UK’s first hybrid fronting insurer in the summer of 2023 and his business is already on track to achieve £400m to £500m of gross written premium by the end of 2025.
Big Interview: Tom Downey, Pen Underwriting
As Pen turns 10, CEO Tom Downey sits down with Harry Curtis to outline his plans to turn the MGA into the equal of the UK’s largest insurers.
Bridgehaven’s Jewell’s verdict on Covéa CEO’s MGA decision
Paul Jewell, CEO of hybrid-fronting insurer Bridgehaven, has shared his thoughts on rival Georges de Macedo, CEO of Covéa Insurance, deciding his business won’t work with MGAs again.
Bridgehaven on course to hit £400m GWP
Eighteen months on from launching the UK’s first hybrid fronting insurer in the summer of 2023, Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell has revealed his business is on track to achieve £400m to £500m of gross written premium by the end of 2025.
Could Covéa’s capacity withdrawal derail MGA progress?
After Covéa Insurance pulled away from MGAs due to a “control from an underwriting perspective”, Edmund Tirbutt examines whether other capacity providers could follow suit.
MGAs Review of the Year 2024
An MGA chief would like Sir Bob Geldof to teach the industry a thing or two about social responsibility in 2025, and leaders are confident that while the hard market was punishing for a time in 2024, next year the sector is well-positioned to lead…
Big Interview: Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
Steve Hardy, CEO of Policy Expert, talks to Tom Luckham about the firm’s plans for expansion, addresses claims concerns, and reveals what American musician Iggy Pop is really like.
Policy Expert gets capacity for pet push
Policy Expert has announced Bridgehaven will provide capacity for the business alongside Accredited, allowing the personal lines insurer to finally launch pet cover.
GoCompare’s partnership; Axa’s claims service; Davies’ chief AI officer
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Fronting insurers and traditional carriers vie for MGAs’ favour
Managing general agents may be able to reap more of the reward of their underwriting activity by partnering with fronting insurers rather than traditional carriers, Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell has said.
Movers and shakers who made Insurance Post’s Power List 2024 revealed
This year’s Insurance Post Power List reflects how claims inflation combined with the Consumer Duty caused some providers to shift their focus and disruptors found it is easier to send a rocket into space than enter the UK insurance market.
Paul Jewell, Bridgehaven
Paul Jewell launched Bridgehaven in the summer of 2023, touting the business as the UK’s first hybrid fronting insurer.