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60 Seconds With... PPL's Andy Woolley
Andy Woolley, chief design officer at PPL, would love to live like James Bond, lip read, and avoid stacking the dishwasher.
Accelerating action after my voice simply wasn’t listened to
Ahead of International Women’s Day on Saturday (8 March), Jill Hambley, managing director of Insurance Compliance Services, shares the discrimination she has faced during her career, plus her efforts to ensure women are listened to in this industry.
Diary of an Insurer: AmTrust’s Hannah Connolly
Hannah Connolly, property underwriting manager at AmTrust International, catches up with coverholders, swims to counteract cake consumption, and Friday is her busiest day for video calls.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: RSA’s flights and ITC’s boxes
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
Q&A: Nick Kelsall, Marshmallow
Marshmallow’s claims director, Nick Kelsall, sits down with Insurance Post to talk about his move from Allianz, his lookout for talent while growing 'a claims team for the future', and what the company is planning regarding fraud in 2025.
How insurance helped and hindered the care sector
Almost five years on from the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Scott McGee examines how insurers helped care providers make sense of the barrage of government guidance, why some have pulled back from offering cover, plus what the industry is doing today…
ABI appoints Phoenix’s Briggs as president
Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, pictured, has been named as president for the Association of British Insurers for the next two years, replacing Zurich's Tim Bailey.
CII launches executive MBA in Islamic Insurance
The Chartered Insurance Institute and University of Greater Manchester have launched an Executive MBA in Islamic Insurance and Risk Management.
Diary of an Insurer: Parametrix’s Yulia Brod
Yulia Brod, head of monitoring, data and analytics at Parametrix, oversees a team of programmers and data scientists who monitor and analyse interruption events in downtime policies, deals with a major cloud service outage, and her working week kicks off…
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Branko’s bite and Fitch’s potatoes
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
Insurers favour internal talent for cyber team growth
Insurance companies are looking to double their cyber teams but are primarily focused on internal hiring, according to Cyber Insurance Academy CEO and co-founder Guy Simkin.
Nigel Walsh reveals next move following Google exit
Nigel Walsh, who revealed he was stepping down as Google Cloud’s global head of insurance, has announced his next move.
60 Seconds With... Capco’s Matt Hutchins
Matt Hutchins, global and UK head of insurance at Capco, would like to have a license to kill, would like to go back to Ancient Greece, and hopes to learn more about generative artificial intelligence coding and prompting.
Did Markerstudy just set a record for shortest GI CEO stint?
Content Director’s View: Jonathan Swift reflects on the shortest stints in general insurance hot seats this century and mulls whether the CEO of Markerstudy Distribution Ian Donaldson has just beaten the previous record holder, Brendan McCafferty.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Biba’s burgers and sausages
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
ISC Group starts reproductive health forum
ISC Group has launched a reproductive health forum with reproductive health solutions provider Juniper, designed to drive an inclusive culture
Zurich posts 10% pay gap between socio-economic groups
Zurich has today (12 Feb) published its socio-economic pay gap, showing the mean (average) pay gap between employees from profession and lower socio-economic backgrounds at 10.5%.
Aviva promotes Fazzini-Jones for group COO
Aviva has appointed Craig Fazzini-Jones as group chief operating officer, effective from 1 March.
Diary of an Insurer: Charles Taylor's Nadeem Sheikh-Ali
Nadeem Sheikh-Ali, senior assistance and client services manager at Charles Taylor Assistance, is greeted by a raccoon, enjoys a stroll around the lake outside his office, and remembers evacuating some injured corporate policyholders from a war-torn area.
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Biba’s buffet and murder mysteries
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
Abby Thomas steps down as ombudsman CEO
Abby Thomas, CEO and chief ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service, is stepping down.
Q&A: Matt Button, Davies
Matt Button outlines what he has been tasked with as deputy group CEO of Davies plus how he plans to ensure the business achieves annual global revenues of £2.5bn by the end of 2030.
Big Interview: ASL International’s Helen Meredith
Helen Meredith, managing director of ASL International, shares why she isn’t afraid of the ticking demographic time bomb scaring most loss adjusting firms and how the financial lines specialists intend to increase the amount of cyber and political risk…
60 Seconds With... Xceedance’s Ankur Mittal
Ankur Mittal, vice president of business development for EMEA & APAC at Xceedance, has a sense of humour but can’t carry on unless he has had a cup of tea in the morning.