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How insurance can realise the personalised motor policy dream
Damisola Sulaiman analyses the landscape of usage-based motor insurance, including its tailwinds, previous failings and recent innovations that may turn the personalised motor insurance dream into a reality.
Why London is the place to be for insurtech’s brightest stars
Trade Voice: Melissa Collett, CEO of Insurtech UK, highlights why London remains the global hub for insurtech innovation and what’s needed to unlock its full potential.
Broker Review of the Year 2024
Brokers were pleased with M&A activity in 2024 but ticked off by disproportionate regulation, capacity exiting the market and artificial intelligence failing to live up to expectations.
Elon Musk takes aim at Aviva’s Amanda Blanc
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and owner of social media platform X, has labelled "people like" Amanda Blanc, group CEO of Aviva, as "racist" in a tweet referencing comments she made last year.
Insurers must embrace rather than resist motor OEM disruption
Delegates at the Insurance Innovators conference were told to welcome fresh competition from original equipment manufacturers, and that they don't have a "God-given right" to be the only ones to sell insurance.
Admiral to become ‘technology company selling insurance’
As Admiral celebrates the 20th anniversary of listing on the London Stock Exchange, one of the provider’s technology leaders has revealed: “Years ago, we were an insurance company. We want to be a technology company that sells insurance. That’s the shift…
Defaqto warns consumers are ‘brainwashed’ by prices
Speaking at Defaqto’s Smarter Financial Decisions conference today (12 September), Mike Powell, insight analyst at Defaqto, said customers are too consumed by price when picking a general insurance policy.
Is it time to ditch lithium ion batteries?
News Editor's View: Scott McGee considers if government legislation to make lithium ion batteries safer is too little too late for electric vehicle insurers and whether providers’ appetites for covering such cars will only return when manufacturers…
Consumers want Amazon and Tesla embedded insurance products
Four out of 10 consumers would be comfortable with the idea of buying insurance from companies such as Ikea, Amazon, or Tesla when making purchases from those brands, according to Guidewire’s Insurance Consumer Survey 2024.
What is going on with electric vehicle insurance?
Post Podcast: What pushed up the price of electric vehicle insurance plus the steps providers are taking to ensure premiums are affordable is the topic of the latest Insurance Post Podcast.
How Labour could reduce the cost of motor insurance
Analysis: Emma Ann Hughes examines efforts by the industry to push down motor insurance premiums and whether politicians could force providers to take more extreme action.
Movers and shakers who made Insurance Post’s Power List 2024 revealed
This year’s Insurance Post Power List reflects how claims inflation combined with the Consumer Duty caused some providers to shift their focus and disruptors found it is easier to send a rocket into space than enter the UK insurance market.
What it takes to be a Power List player in 2024
Insurance Post’s Power List reveals today’s leading lights in the industry, the demise of big name digital disruptors plus who has shaken up the market in the last 12 months.
Could Jaguar Land Rover issues derail OEM insurance ambitions?
Following customer concerns over Jaguar Land Rover’s embedded scheme, Tom Luckham contemplates whether the original equipment manufacturer-led car insurance revolution is still a distant dream?
What pushed up the price of EV premiums
Andrew Little, head of marketing and sales at Redtail Telematics, explains what pushed up electric vehicle motor insurance premiums plus what it will take to make cover more affordable again.
Amazon, Google, Tesla … is there a tech giant insurance cannot repel?
Content Director’s View: Following the quick and relatively painless death of the Amazon Insurance Store, Jonathan Swift reflects on why UK policyholders are often resistant to the charms of brands they would otherwise trust when it comes to buying…
Amazon’s insurance exit has a Sting in the tail
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes argues that if Amazon had been allowed to watch every move consumers make, then the retail giant’s Insurance Store would have obliterated insurers in the same way it emptied the high street.
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…
Headlines that shook insurance in 2023
The news and views that shaped insurance in 2023, plus what can you expect from Insurance Post in 2024, are all revealed in our final video podcast of the year.
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.
Big Interview: Nadia Côté and Serge Raffard, Allianz
After being named managing directors of Allianz Commercial and Allianz Personal, respectively, Nadia Côté and Serge Raffard met with Scott McGee to discuss their respective markets, how they have settled in, and where they see their businesses growing in…