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Hiscox CEO highlights what’s next after Google collaboration
Hiscox’s London Market CEO shares why responsible tech development was paramount, and when the firm will roll out its AI underwriting model across the wider industry.
New year, new shape of the City for insurers
As Lloyd’s stays put in Lime Street and Aviva kicks off 2024 in a new City HQ, Emma Ann Hughes examines how insurers are reshaping the square footage they occupy in the Square Mile.
Most-read insurance stories in 2023 revealed
Like Cher, Insurance Post is turning back time to remember the industry Consumer Duty’s efforts, business interruption cases continuing to rumble on, developments at Direct Line, RSA’s personal lines exit, plus the other major insurance events of the…
Insurtech Review of the Year 2023
2023 will be remembered as the year the insurtech funding bubble burst but looking ahead to 2024 players in this part of the market expect providers to realise it is easier to buy systems than build them.
Hiscox and Google collaborate; Axis syndicate; Biba’s 2024 conference theme
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Climate activists paint the city ‘blood red’
Protestors from Money Rebellion, the sister group of Extinction Rebellion, have targeted the offices of UK-based insurance companies in London, Reading, Leeds, Leicester and Colchester.
Top 50 Reinsurers of 2023 revealed
Munich Re remained in first place of Insurance Post’s Top 50 Reinsurers 2023 list, with Swiss Re and Hannover Rück SE joining Munich Re on the podium this year.
Hiscox on the limitations of AI technology
Regulations, accuracy and ensuring humans are kept accountable are some of considerations insurers have been warned to factor in to ensure success with artificial intelligence.
What NFTs mean for fine art insurance
Analysis: Edmund Tirbutt examines what the advent of non-fungible tokens means for insurers, and whether the industry is designing an array of cover for this emerging art form.
Allianz's Graham Gibson, Aviva, NFU and Zurich among winners at 2023 Claims & Fraud Awards
Allianz chief claims officer Graham Gibson, pictured, won the prestigious Achievement Award at the Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards yesterday evening (5 October) at The Brewery.
View from the top: Hiscox’s Fiona Mayo on why more technology shouldn’t mean less humanity
Fiona Mayo, Hiscox marketing director, says that increasing automation all too often results in treating humans like numbers.
Top 75 MGAs: Brown & Brown
Brown & Brown's main MGA-MGU activities dealing in UK-based non-life risks in 2022 earning the business a place on the Top 75 MGAs list were Camberford Underwriting, Decus, Mithras Underwriting and Plum Underwriting.
Aon unveils operational risks solution; Admiral launches PI policy; Clear inks another deal
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Flock raids industry in flurry of exec hires
Insurance Post can reveal that commercial motor fleet insurtech Flock has completed a series of senior hires, taking top executives from multiple insurers, including Hiscox and Mulsanne.
CII reveals who scored top marks in insurance exams
Marsh, Axa, Gallagher, Zurich, Allianz, QBE, RSA, NFU Mutual and Hiscox employees were among those who scored the top marks in Chartered Insurance Institute exam and coursework submissions in 2022.
Ex-Hiscox CEO Masojada joins insurtech to target large insurer clients
Instanda has recruited former Hiscox group CEO Bronek Masojada, pictured, as an adviser as it looks to build on its existing client heartland of MGAs and start-ups to win over more mainstream insurers too.
Aston Lark’s latest acquisition; World Nomads’ travel product partnership; and Lloyd’s unveils Women’s Cricket Team
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hemming appointed as Hiscox chief distribution officer
Hiscox has appointed former Aviva distribution boss Gareth Hemming as its UK chief distribution officer.
Updated – Insurer results directory H1 2023
Insurance Post tracks insurers' half-year 2023 results, including gross written premium and combined operating ratio.
Aviva expands underwriting appetite; Flood Flash with Hiscox; Dual deal
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Is Hiscox no longer the big bad BI wolf?
Editor’s View: Scott McGee considers how lessons can be learned from how Hiscox, which bore the brunt of the initial reputational hit from Covid-related business interruptions claims, has moved on.
Hiscox achieves tenfold increase in H1 profits
Aki Hussain, group chief executive of Hiscox, has revealed how a decision to preserve capital over the last few years has paid off with bumper profits at the start of 2023.
Climate change activists target Hiscox and Travelers
Coal Action UK campaigners have graffitied Hiscox and Travelers offices this week, demanding the insurers withdraw support for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project.