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Sedgwick reveals how carbon neutrality was achieved in the UK
Insurers have approached Sedgwick for guidance on lowering their carbon footprints, after the loss adjusters achieved carbon neutrality in the UK.
Big Interview: Alistair Hardie, Jensten Group
Alistair Hardie, CEO of Jensten Group, updates Scott McGee on the broker’s anticipated sale, its “radical overhaul”, and where it may shift its M&A focus to in the future.
Jensten’s Hardie to wield axe on insurers with shoddy service
Alistair Hardie, Jensten Group’s CEO, has thrown down the gauntlet to “all insurers” to “throw out the service rule book” and start again, because “nobody has got it right”.
Diary of an Insurer: Clear Group’s Neil Grimes
Neil Grimes, claims director of Clear Group, gets out on the track to experience a demonstration of autonomous driving and catches up with the claims team of a recent acquisition.
Direct Line’s ex-CEO James speaks out about facing flack
Direct Line’s former CEO Penny James has challenged the ‘flack’ the press directs at female industry leaders.
What does Winslow’s hiring splurge say about DLG’s future?
Content Director’s View: Jonathan Swift takes stock of Direct Line Group CEO Adam Winslow’s new look executive team and asks whether it has the attributes to succeed.
Flood Re’s Andy Bord to stand down as CEO
Andy Bord, CEO of Flood Re, will step down at its annual general meeting in July 2024.
How D-Day was reported by Post
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings and D-Day, we dip into our 184-year archive to see what Insurance Post said at the time.
Hardie sees Jensten ‘doubling again’ in next few years
Alistair Hardie, group CEO at Jensten, has said he expects to complete “about 10” acquisitions in 2024, and that he believes the broker can “double the size again” in three or fours years’ time.
Q&A: Richard Clarkson, WTW
Richard Clarkson, global market leader, global specialty for insurance consulting and technology at WTW, explains how the business is working to help global specialty carriers reduce costs across underwriting, trading, and technical actuarial processes.
Reminder: Claims and Fraud Awards deadline is 14 June
With a deadline of 14 June you have just over a week left to get your entries in for the 2024 Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards.
Big Interview: Cécile Fresneau, QBE
Cécile Fresneau, managing director of the insurance division of QBE’s European Operations, reveals her growth plans, hopes for generative artificial intelligence and her efforts to boost the number of female senior underwriters.
60 Seconds With... HF’s Jennette Newman
Jennette Newman, partner and head of London markets at HF, would love to be ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ after learning lots from trial and error.
Diary of an Insurer: Starpeak’s Andy Brownsell
Andy Brownsell, commercial director of Starpeak, discusses data privacy, catches up with insurers to discuss sign-off for binder renewal and meets with a prospective new capacity provider.
Q&A: Liz Hopper, Harry Hall
Liz Hopper, managing director of equestrian specialist Harry Hall, shares how she plans to attract 10,000 more horse owners and how she switched the 130-year-old riding attire business to a membership model offering insurance.
Bartleet aims to be ‘bridge between industry and consumers’
Tom Bartleet, insurance veteran and Liberal Democrat candidate for Suffolk South, has told Insurance Post that he wishes to use his experience to serve his constituents, if elected.
Groundhog day after 39 years at the ABI
After retiring from the trade body, Malcolm Tarling, former chief media relations officer at the Association of British Insurers, urges providers to avoid trying to make their products sexy and says clear communications are essential in the fight to…
Q&A: Marc Lewis, Ecclesiastical
Marc Lewis, underwriting director for the UK for Ecclesiastical, reveals how the insurer is embracing artificial intelligence plus its plans to grow the casualty business.
Dive In opens inclusive manager campaign
Dive In, the insurance industry’s diversity, equity and inclusion festival, has invited nominations for managers making “outstanding” inclusion contributions.
60 Seconds With… Woodgate & Clark’s Richard Fleming
Richard Fleming, delegated claims administrator and technical claims controller at Woodgate & Clark, would like to travel the world like Tintin and won’t down pints of Guinness again just to get a hat.
Diary of an Insurer: Claims Consortium Group’s Jeremy Hyams
Jeremy Hyams, founder of Claims Consortium Group and Synergy Cloud, spends his week looking for missing school shoes, cooking up a storm, talking high-level strategy, exploring international opportunities and new predictive insurance tools.
Insurance’s wealthiest figures revealed
Douw Steyn, founder of BGL Group, the parent of Compare the Market, has climbed 23 places to make it to 58th position on this year’s Sunday Times Rich List.
Protesters target Biba conference with street theatre
Greater Manchester Stop EACOP coalition chose to protest at the British Insurance Broker’s Association conference because the insurance industry is the “Achilles’ heel” of the fossil fuel projects it is campaigning against, according to member Martin…