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Allianz sponsors Rugby World Cup; Alps's motorhome product; Send's CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox achieves 6% UK growth and eyes double digits by 2028
Hiscox UK is on track to hit its 6% growth target for 2025 at the halfway mark, with group chief underwriting officer Joanne Musselle revealing plans for double-digit retail growth by 2028.
Styling shifts transform hairdresser insurance
Fiona Nicolson takes a closer look at why the increase in the number of independent and freelance hairdressers in the UK, as well as so-called co-working salon spaces post pandemic, has pushed up the price of hairdressers’ insurance.
Tomorrow’s World: Claims handling
How technology is reshaping claims handling and whether humans will always be part of the process is explored in the latest episode of Insurance Post’s Tomorrow’s World series.
British Insurance Awards 2025 winners revealed
Aviva was crowned General Insurer of the Year and Airmic CEO Julia Graham, pictured, took home the Achievement Award at the 2025 British Insurance Awards last night (9 July).
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.
Hiscox CUO on how underwriters must evolve in the age of AI
View from the Top: Hiscox UK’s chief underwriting officer Peter Treloar explores the skills underwriters will need to develop as AI adoption grows
Throwback Thursday: CII card woes; Hiscox grows
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to May 1990 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history: the Chartered Insurance Institute was suffering card woes, Hiscox was growing and Sun Alliance increased its stake in…
Hiscox warns how tech insurance bubble could burst
Hiscox’s head of technology, Adam Atkins, has warned that the influx of new competition into the market could lead to another event which would see many exits in the sector.
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.
Aki Hussain, Hiscox
Aki Hussain, CEO of Hiscox Group, has accelerated innovation and created an inclusive culture to keep the insurance business in pole position in the market.
Q&A: Craig Foster, Ondo Insurtech
Craig Foster, founder and CEO of Ondo Insurtech, the first insurtech to list on the London Stock Exchange, discusses with Insurance Post what makes its flagship claims prevention technology unique, the growth opportunities the technology offers and the…
Gallagher on the hook for up to £5m damages
The High Court has ruled Gallagher could owe damages of up to £5m to a housing trust due to its negligence resulting in its client missing out on data breach cover.
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.
Ardonagh Advisory buys firm; NBS x Hiscox; Tokio Marine’s head of compliance
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Painting a picture of the fine art insurance market
Today’s trends in fine art and how this affects the world of insurance are tackled in the latest Insurance Post Podcast.
Hiscox offers update on plan for genAI underwriting
Hiscox and Google Cloud have shared plans to introduce generative artificial underwriting to more lines of business and explained what it took to get it working last year for terrorism cover.
How AI is reshaping insurance in 2025
Rory Yates, global head of strategy at EIS, Kennedys IQ chief products officer Karim Derrick, Paul O’Brien, chief AI officer of Davies, Charles Clarke, group vice-president of Guidewire Analytics, and Hiscox chief technology officer Ian Wrigglesworth…
Five future female insurance CEOs
As International Women’s Day approaches, Insurance Post spotlights five women in the insurance industry that are likely to be at the helm of our nation’s biggest insurers in the years to come.
When will insurance get more female leaders?
Analysis: Damisola Sulaiman highlights the barriers preventing women in insurance from attaining senior-level positions today, and questions whether the move away from diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives in the US could hamper efforts to gain…
Hiscox hits 2024 UK growth target
The growth of Hiscox’s UK retail business gathered momentum over the course of 2024, finishing the year just within the insurer’s 5% to 15% target range, according to its results announcement.
Big Interview: Steve Tooze, Extinction Rebellion
Steve Tooze, spokesperson for climate pressure group Extinction Rebellion, tells Damisola Sulaiman about the group’s motivations for targeting the insurance industry, responds to questions from the companies his organisation has targeted and shares plans…
Aviva’s DLG deal pushes insurance past FTSE All-Share
The UK insurance sector managed to outperform the FTSE All-Share Index on a total return basis in 2024, thanks to “major outperformers” Just Group, Beazley and Direct Line Group.