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Covéa regional restructure leads to redundancies
Covéa is changing its regional structure, leading to 11 redundancies.
British Insurance Awards 2018: Full list of winners, their stories and photos
Former Churchill and LV general insurance boss John O’Roarke took home the Achievement prize last night at the British Insurance Awards, where his new employer Aviva was among the big winners.
Roundtable: The future of insurance in the digital age
Insurers feel they need to adapt to the digital age but they don’t all agree on how to drive technological change. What culture should they nurture? Post invited a number of industry experts to discuss the challenges ahead
Analysis: Cyber bullying
Cyber cover is entering personal lines and offering protection against online bullying. But is it really a place for insurers?
Penny Black's social world: June 2018
Mucky hacks, the Duchenne Dash and starring with stormtroopers
Roundtable: Digital innovation in commercial lines
The terms commercial lines and digital aren't often spoken together - is the problem that the industry doesn't talk about it or is it really not happening in the market?
Analysis: Supply chains: Pruning supply risks
With supply chains entwined through businesses like ivy, disruption risks are climbing. Under-utilised policy wordings and little-known specialist covers haven’t weeded them out
Ogden rate revision spurs GWP growth for Covéa
Covéa Insurance saw a 10.8% increase in gross written premiums in the financial year to 3 May, up to £739m from £666.3m in the previous year.
Covea's Simon Cooter on investing in tech for customers, not for profit
Innovation needs to focus on enhancing customer experience, explains Simon Cooter, commercial lines & HNW director at Covéa Insurance.
Penny Black's Social World - April 2018
Princes and paralympians, beach clean and ice scene
Updated: QBE claims boss replaces Ashton West at helm of MIB
Ashton West OBE is to retire as CEO and executive director of the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, being replaced by former QBE group chief claims officer Dominic Clayden.
Penny Black's social world: January 2018
Hot coffee, hampers and a heroine
Preview of 2018: A sneak peek at the coming year
The promised whiplash and discount rate reforms, as well as the UK’s exit from the European Union, are expected to shape the coming year for the industry. Insurers, brokers, loss adjusters and lawyers are wary of political uncertainties and the trends in…
Post Power List 2018: James Reader
CEO, Covéa Insurance
This month in Post: Takeovers, tech, trials and tinsel
This week saw one of the biggest takeover deals of 2017 while our December issue highlights a year of tech.
Blog: There will be a tsunami of new apprenticeships
Don’t write the apprenticeship levy off just yet, says Matthew Metcalfe, claims manager at Covéa Insurance, explaining why the future’s bright for new apprenticeships.
Week in Post: All hail Captain Side Parting
This year’s Budget was rewarding for many reasons: a freeze on insurance premium tax, an increase in research funding for driverless cars, and a dig at Jeremy Clarkson.
Covéa's Adrian Furness on removing gender barriers
Adrian Furness, claims and operations director at Covéa Insurance, wants his daughter and other women to be able to fulfil their potential, so as an industry leader he's making sure he can feel proud rather than apologetic about the industry’s diversity…
This week in Post: Anti-bullying, Amex and IPOs
As the mother of a nine-year-old son who is growing up in a digital world where his life might be played out on social media I was shocked to learn that Childline held over 12,000 counselling sessions with children who were concerned about an online…
Blog: 12,000 cries for help on bullying, what can insurers do?
Insurers have a role to play against online bullying, explains Alison Colver, national high net worth underwriting manager at Covéa.
Editor's comment: Fashion is fickle
Fidget spinners, dabbing and the bottle flip are just three of the crazes that my son brought home from school during the last academic year. Luckily for me, unlike Pokémon - which has been in our house for three full years now - these were short-lived…
Research: Focus on fraud
What does a Greek merchant in 300BC delivering corn on a cargo ship have in common with nearly one-tenth of today’s UK population? The answer is insurance fraud. Michèle Bacchus takes a closer look.
Blockchain industry pilot gains 23 new entrants
The Blockchain Insurance Initiative, B3i, has gained 23 new companies to participate in the market testing of its Blockchain prototype.