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Axa’s bodycams; Pen’s box at Lloyd’s; Utility Warehouse’s CEO steps down
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
AssuredPartners’ double swoop; LMA and Liiba’s collab; Pen’s IP proposition
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…
Many Pets’ £42m loss highlights issues
Many Pets posted a £42m loss for the year to 31 March 2023, on top of the £31m loss for the year before.
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.
Qover and Revolut partner; Marsh to aid Ukraine; AIG appoints CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Reinventing recruitment and onboarding in insurance
Analysis: Following ‘the great resignation’, news editor Scott McGee examines how insurance companies are replacing lost talent and coping with increased wage demands.
Zurich’s broker club; Novidea’s $50m funding; and Gallagher sponsors women’s rugby
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Ardonagh in double swoop; UK General rebrands; SRG launches in Europe
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments, and strategic moves of the week.
Why the Consumer Duty could reduce general insurance options
Editor’s View: Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes is concerned the Consumer Duty combined with claims inflation could reduce choice for personal lines policyholders.
RSA’s personal motor withdrawal was More Than inevitable
Content Director's View: Jonathan Swift reflects on RSA's withdrawal from personal motor and concludes it had been coming for a few years now.
WTW partners with Sapiens; Zurich expands regional network; Pen UW creates head of IP
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Energy crisis fails to derail insurers from hitting ESG targets
Data analysis: Insurers and reinsurers are managing to stick to their shorter-term goals of cutting underwriting emissions even during the energy crisis.
Questgates acquires CP Adjusting; Pen UW rolls out cyber risk management suite; Brokerbility shakes up leadership team
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Data Analysis: Graduate underwriting recruitment in an employee's market
Post surveys graduate opportunities in underwriting, to investigate how the sector is treating new and prospective entrants.
Interview: Ken Norgrove, RSA
Harry Curtis spoke to Ken Norgrove, RSA UK and international CEO, about life after being acquired by Intact, winning over brokers and the insurer’s technology overhaul.
European insurtech investment catching up with US; Goldman Sachs invests in Clear; Allianz to lead Coalitions’ UK cyber capacity; and Gallagher buys Erimus
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Intelligence: Telematics: Boxing clever?
Twenty years after Norwich Union launched Pay as You Drive Insurance in the UK, Frances Stebbing assesses how much progress has been made in telematics becoming a mainstream motor insurance product; and how these black box offerings have evolved.
Admiral defeats fundamentally dishonest fraudster; Ardonagh Academy launched; start-up Coral aims to disrupt LEI sector; and Pool Re to cut prices
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
AIG, Axa and RSA lead underwriter recruitment; Allianz partners with Solar Energy UK; North P&I and Standard Club to merge; and first non-London syndicate-in-a-box-launched
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
HSBC extends Marsh deal; Zurich to set up transformation Centre of Excellence; Pool Re completes expanded terrorism placement; and Howden acquires again
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Spotlight: Application fraud - Intelligence and a united front bring progress
With a rise in application fraud post-Covid being widely reported, Rachel Gordon asks insurers and brokers how they are using the art of data science to make sure honest policyholders do not suffer.
ABI reports fraud at lowest level since 2007; Axa relaunches British Gas cover; Getsafe extends Series B; and Lockton acquires
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches and investments of the week.
WH Smith to launch ‘digital first’ insurance lines; WTW lines up first acquisition after Aon merger collapse; Converys Europe strikes fourth deal and Higos buys in Cornwall
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.