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Broker share prices tumble after ChatGPT insurance apps go live
Several broker share prices have fallen following OpenAI’s approval of apps offering personalised home insurance quotes for ChatGPT users.
Diary of an Insurer: Marsh’s Kasia Lipinska
The working week of Kasia Lipinska, automotive and manufacturing industries leader at Marsh, is a whirlwind of cars, clients, and cyber plus supporting her wife with chemotherapy and daughters with their GCSEs.
Big Interview: Colin Johnson, Hadron International
As a former footballer turned fronting-carrier CEO, Hadron’s Colin Johnson knows the best managers succeed by creating a top team, who can achieve goals, and know the way the opposition plays.
Record-breaking total for Insurance Day for Dementia
More than 152 firms took part in this year's Insurance Day for Dementia on 27 November raising a record-breaking £431,000 from the annual event.
Clear Group’s Scottish expansion; Bridgehaven’s buy; B.P. Marsh’s CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
My Mum, Alzheimer’s, and the importance of IUAD’s Day
Nigel Walsh, global head of insurance at cloud-based platform ServiceNow, shares his family’s rapid and painful experience of Alzheimer’s and why Insurance United Against Dementia’s Day (27 November) holds deeper meaning for him this year.
Fore! Golf boom drives up risks on and off the fairway
With more people teeing off than ever, David Worsfold examines how golf’s quiet fairways conceal growing exposures and gets to grips with the widening gap in the insurance cover many players and clubs rely on.
Marsh hit with £85m negligence claim by pub giant
The UK’s largest pub company, Stonegate, is suing Marsh over cover the broker arranged for the group that allegedly left many of its establishments without business interruption insurance at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Chris Lay to retire as Marsh UK names new CEO
Marsh has announced its UK CEO Chris Lay is to retire in Q1 2026, with the president of Marsh Asia James Addington-Smith named as his successor.
IUA elects chair amid ‘challenging market conditions’
The International Underwriting Association has elected Theo Butt, UK CEO of Convex Insurance, as its next chair.
Does Intact’s UKGI investment signal a new era of insurers buying into brokers?
Content Director's View: With Intact investing into the owner of Addler Fairways, are we about to see another dawn of insurers buying into commercial insurance distribution? Jonathan Swift weighs up the lessons of the past and present to find an answer.
How insurers are helping sneakerheads cover their kicks
Once purely functional footwear for athletes and soldiers, Tom Luckham explores how sneakers have become an investment asset, prompting insurers to adapt their offerings to protect the prized collections of a new generation of collectors.
Ageas x RAC; Starr buys ERS-owner; Allianz's distribution director
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Big Interview: Chris Lay, CEO of Marsh McLennan UK
Chris Lay, Marsh McLennan’s UK CEO and Insurance United Against Dementia chair, shares his plans for the next phase of the campaign, plus his growth plans for the 154-year-old broking giant.
Marsh McLennan CEO shares plan to be ‘better, not just bigger’
Marsh McLennan UK CEO Chris Lay has shared his plans to build a business “for the next 154 years” exclusively with Insurance Post.
IUAD aims to shape dementia data and NHS plans
Insurance United Against Dementia chair Chris Lay has said the insurance industry has a critical role to play in shaping dementia care through better data and influencing NHS policy.
Marsh and Allianz lead winners at CII Exam Awards
This year’s Chartered Insurance Institute Apprenticeship Awards and Qualification Prizegiving saw several major insurance groups collect multiple honours.
Winners of Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards 2025 revealed
Aviva. CFC, Charles Taylor, Crawford & Company, DWF and Markerstudy were all multiple winners at Insurance Post's Claims and Fraud Awards last night (2 October).
Insurance Post’s Top 80 MGAs of 2025 revealed
Policy Expert is the UK’s biggest MGA thanks to an 8% swell in its customer base, reaching 1.6m policies for the first time this year.
Marsh McLennan’s Lay announced as new LMG chair
Marsh McLennan UK CEO Chris Lay is set to become the next chair of the London Market Group, taking up the role on 1 January, 2026.
Axa’s road safety initiative; Marshmallow’s migrant offering; Bridgehaven joins ABI
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.