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Motor insurers with the happiest customers revealed
Data analysis: Fairer Finance’s latest consumer survey shows Audi, NFU Mutual, BMW, Santander, and By Miles have the happiest motor insurance customers and digs into the reasons why they are more cheerful than most.
Amazon adds fifth provider to Insurance Store
Amazon has signed-up Urban Jungle to its Insurance Store, making it the fifth insurance provider on the tech-giant’s platform.
Zurich cuts claims times; Marsh's global cyber practice; Brown & Brown partners with Ageas
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2023: Personal lines insurers hardest hit by inflation
Valeria Ermakova, associate director for analytics at AM Best, reveals while reserving for claims inflation is shaking the nation's insurers, actions taken by the top 10 of this year's Insurance Post Top 100 UK Insurers List helped these providers hold…
Insurers ready for hundreds of Luton Airport fire claims
While the Association of British Insurers has claimed it is “too early” to estimate the insured cost of a fire at London Luton Airport. LV, Ageas and Aviva have confirmed how they will be handling motor insurance claims caused by the blaze.
Who’ll buy RSA’s home and pet books if sale is green-lit?
Content Director’s View: With RSA and parent Intact floating the idea of a possible sale of its remaining personal lines business, Jonathan Swift looks at who could be in the market for a new pet and/or household book.
Young adults want Alexa to sort out their insurance
Data analysis: Young adults are markedly more likely to want their Alexa to share information so they can have personalised home (70%), pet (68%) and car insurance (67%) than older adults (50%, 43% and 48% respectively), a survey has shown.
Three-year time limit for new vehicle MOTs set to stay
The result of the Department for Transport’s consultation on the mandatory time limit for MOTs is likely to result in the rules remaining unchanged, Insurance Post can exclusively reveal.
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.
How insurers cope with shifting ground caused by summer heatwaves
Analysis: As UK summertime temperatures continue to soar, Aamina Zafar examines how insurers are striving to minimise the damaging impact heatwaves have on property and homeowners.
What the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance’s demise means for the industry
Edmund Tirbutt examines what the future holds for the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened body set up two years ago for insurers wanting to cut their carbon footprint and reduce climate change risk.
Bain Capital is back after LV deal fallout
Bain Capital Insurance is focused on pursuing middle market transactions in North America and Europe after it announced the final close of its inaugural private equity fund at $1.15bn.
Four insurers save £650K by challenging credit hire costs
Admiral, Hastings Direct, KGM Underwriting Services and LV General Insurance have successfully challenged the prices charged by credit hire firms in recent weeks, according to law firm HF.
Hillon to succeed retiring Kenyon as Allianz Personal pricing director
Allianz Personal has appointed James Hillon as director of pricing for personal lines, replacing the retiring Hugh Kenyon.
Best Insurance Employer: Allianz
Allianz was rated a five-star place to work in this year’s Insurance Post Best Insurance Employer list, thanks to the provider’s returners programme, trans policy and race at work training.
Allianz, LV and Zurich to discuss speeding up fraud detection in Insurance Post webinar
Whilst some insurance fraudsters are getting smarter at using modern technologies to embellish their false insurance claims; other more opportunistic policyholders are being driven to seek illicit gains as the cost-of-living crunch means money is tighter…
Insurance and repair concerns could stifle EV adoption, says Thatcham
A report from Thatcham Research has stressed how insurance implications remain unclear on repair capacity, training, skills, and cost, as well as the lifetime sustainability of battery electric vehicles.
Ways to tackle economics-driven insurance application fraud
Nick Jackson, partnerships director of CDL, explains how to detect quote manipulation or misrepresentation among those feeling the pinch.
Dive In aims to unlock innovation through inclusivity
Insurance Post is media partner for this year’s Dive In Festival, which will take place from 26 to 28 September and launch a mentoring programme.
Who wants to be a DLG CEO?
Editor’s View: It is approaching six months since Penny James, Direct Line Group’s CEO “stepped down” from the role, but who could be in line to take over?
Motor repair sector must step up EV training or face talent gap
The motor repair industry is facing a massive talent shortfall in qualified EV repairers if it does not start ramping up its training and recruitment.
‘Naïve’ to expect road usage to go back to pre-pandemic ways
The changing habits of drivers post-pandemic requires insurers to be “comfortable being uncomfortable”, the head of underwriting for Allianz Personal and LV said.
Allianz reveals Treloar’s successor at LV
Allianz has named Serge Raffard as its new personal managing director, following the recent news that Steve Treloar has decided to leave to pursue new opportunities.