European Commission (EC)

Power to the pedals

Cycle insurers have mixed feelings about the European proposal to mandate insurance for electric bikes.

Blog: I(nsured), robot

It is unlikely that all robots will require cover, Victor Fornasier and Kathryn Mycock, partner and associate at Hogan Lovells, examine the rationale for compulsory insurance.

Analysis: A changing investment climate

Insurers are increasingly finding themselves under pressure on three fronts when it comes to climate change – as underwriters, as major investors and as large employers with their own substantial carbon footprints. That pressure is about to intensify.

Finishing line in sight for the IPID

Although many who voted for Brexit may have hoped otherwise, leaving the European Union will not enable the UK insurance community to turn a blind eye to the insurance regulations dreamed up by those famously unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Although…

Blog: Don't be phased by the IDD

Insurance companies and intermediaries responsible for selling insurance and reinsurance products should not be phased by the prospect of tightening rules to guard against mis-selling, following the publication of the first of two consultation papers…

Blog: Vnuk opens fraud front

The Vnuk ruling has raised the prospect of a much wider compulsory insurance regime being introduced in the UK, requiring vehicles such as golf buggies, quad bikes and farm vehicles to be insured, even when used exclusively on private land. The…

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