Risk Management
Spotlight: UK businesses brace for evolving claims risks
The risks facing UK businesses are constantly evolving, and trends in claims follow in their wake. It’s not just a rise in extreme weather events that is contributing to the claims tally for UK businesses.
Spotlight: Why insurance can't afford to ignore RegTech
Within the insurance industry, regulatory pressures are intensifying, operational costs are soaring, and the ever-present threat of compliance violations could destabilise entire businesses.
Over half of risk managers think key risks are set to become uninsurable
More than half of risks managers believe that some of the key business activities and locations are set to become uninsurable, a survey by the Federation of European Risk Management Associations has found.
Verisk London 2024: Catastrophe modelling
In the second in a series of videos recorded at the Verisk Insurance Conference in London, Insurance Post content director Jonathan Swift met with industry experts to examine how the sector can get a better view of catastrophe risk.
Why insurers should rethink their approach to tree removal
Freya Chapman, residential lead at ground engineering specialist Mainmark, explains how insurers can triage tree-related subsidence in a low impact way.
Spotlight: Tackling insurance's regulatory tsunami
Waves of regulatory initiatives are driving up costs, reducing profitability and slowing down business for insurance firms. This spotlight focuses on how insurance firms can respond to these challenges and address the regulatory tsunami.
2024 AI handbook for insurance leaders
AI will touch nearly every aspect of insurance - from broker operations to underwriting to risk management to claims processing and beyond. Insurers that adopt AI effectively will have an insurmountable advantage.
Spotlight: Why we need risk management for everyone, not just the 2%
For over 200 years, the insurance industry has understood the benefits of risk management in reducing and controlling exposure. But in a world of emerging and evolving risks, the traditional way of making improvements through site surveys creates a…
Spotlight: Emerging risks in the property sector
The property sector faces a number of long-established risks from storms and floods to subsidence and fires. However, new risks are emerging all the time and the insurance industry must make sure customers are aware and are prepared to face them. Tim…
Spotlight: UK businesses brace for evolving claims risks
It’s not just a rise in extreme weather events that is contributing to the claims tally for UK businesses. Tim Evershed explores the gaps in insurance cover in the workplace
Howden and Microsoft launch climate risk platform
Howden has collaborated with Microsoft on a platform aimed at enabling clients to manage climate risk and increase climate resilience.
ESG Spotlight: Can SME commercial insurers drive profitable growth with ESG data?
ESG continues to act as a catalyst for change, with its reach having extended to the UK SME sector.
Terrorism legislation ‘likely’ to result in increased D&O claims
Legislation tabled in parliament last week is “likely” to result in more directors’ and officers’ claims and renewed demand for public liability cover, law firm DAC Beachcroft has warned.
ESG Spotlight: Ethics, talent and underwriting profit - how ESG can help insurers
Although most insurers are not yet fully embracing ESG in working practices, a group of UK insurers are showing best practice – from pricing and underwriting to staff motivation and community investment.
Look to the skies to manage climate change risk
By leveraging advanced technologies like satellite data, Forbes McKenzie, founder and CEO of McKenzie Intelligence Services, argues insurers can better predict, manage and mitigate the impact of increasingly common frequency and severe natural disasters.
Government uncertain on Martyn’s Law’s insurance implications
Martyn’s Law, which will require public venues to boost their preparedness for terrorist attacks, has finally been introduced to parliament.
ESG Spotlight: The ESG opportunity for SME brokers
As ESG becomes more important to SMEs, Saxon East says brokers can work with forward-thinking insurers to help their clients.
ESG Spotlight: Ethics, talent and underwriting profit – how ESG can help insurers
While there is a lack of clarity on how insurers can embed ESG into working practices, despite its growing importance, Saxon East reports some insurers are showing the way.
ESG Spotlight: Can SME commercial insurers drive profitable growth with ESG data?
ESG continues to act as a catalyst for change across business operations and culture with its reach having extended to the UK SME sector. What does this mean for SME commercial insurers and can they use ESG data to better assess risk and create…
Whose role is it anyway? Helping consumers with the lasting impact of the cost of living crisis
68% of Europeans think insurance premiums are excessively high, highlighting the importance for many to access affordable products.
Fraud Spotlight: ID fraud now hardest to spot, say insurance leaders
Identity fraud was named as the fraud typology most difficult to detect, according to the 2024 Insurance Post Fraud Survey sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
Fraud Spotlight: Insurers face ‘cat-and-mouse’ with fraudsters
There has been a marked increase in opportunistic claims fraud, according to the Insurance Post Fraud Survey 2024 conducted in association with LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
Hot works – how not to get burned
Risk improvement can boost an insurer’s bottom line and help customers avoid damaging and disruptive incidents. However, RiskSTOP’s Lisa Beaton finds underwriters’ risk requirements are not always valued, and that one intervention presents a particular…
HSB Knowledge Squad Podcast: The true cost of not having equipment breakdown insurance
Following our whitepaper, HSB’s Andrew Bazley, Alan Cain, and Andy Meanock discuss the commercial realities of equipment failures and how they can impact customers’ finances, and the trends and risk considerations you need to be aware of.