Commercial combined
Big Interview: Simon McGinn, CEO of Dual UK
Simon McGinn, CEO of Dual UK, is betting on regional expansion, specialist expertise and empowering underwriting talent, rather than pursuing takeovers, to double the MGA business by 2030.
Insurance Post’s Top 80 MGAs of 2025 revealed
Policy Expert is the UK’s biggest MGA thanks to an 8% swell in its customer base, reaching 1.6m policies for the first time this year.
Aviva’s Direct Line deal triggers £500 staff gift
Aviva has posted an operating profit of £1.07bn for the first half of 2025, up 22% on the start of 2024, and to “celebrate and recognise the acquisition” of Direct Line is giving £500-worth of free shares to staff in September.
Zurich growth not enough despite new business surge
Zurich saw new business for its UK regional business increase 20% in the first half of the year, but the insurer’s head of retail commercial Morgan Lyons believes it can boost that further, despite competitive market conditions.
Zurich rebrands tradespeople offering to include homeworkers
The scope of Zurich’s trades and professions product has been broadened to include home workers, Insurance Post can reveal.
MBC’s Clear rebrand; MS Amlin’s simplification; CFC chief tech officer
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurer: Apollo’s Chris Moore
Based in Amsterdam, Chris Moore, president of commercial at Apollo ibott 1971, gets the kids to school while the London market still sleeps, has a data-driven underwriting approach, and reflects on what Lloyd's chair Bruce Carnegie-Brown and CEO John…
Zurich expands SME proposition to online retailers
Zurich has expanded its commercial combined offering to include coverage for SME online retailers, Insurance Post can reveal.
Zurich targeting 30% SME growth in 2025
Nikki Lidster, head of SME and trading at Zurich UK, has revealed the insurer is targeting 30% GWP growth in its SME business in 2025.
Markel’s Galjaard outlines plan to double the UK business
Markel’s UK managing director Neil Galjaard shared the business has just signed off a growth strategy that aims to double the size of the business by 2030.
Stephanie Ogden, HDI Global
Stephanie Ogden, CEO of HDI Global, has risen up the sector’s ranks at breakneck speed.
Carbon Underwriting CEO retires due to MS
Carbon Underwriting co-founder and CEO Nick Tye is retiring from the business following a diagnosis of progressive multiple sclerosis.
Commercial insurance rates fall 6% in Q1
UK commercial insurance rates fell 6%, on average, in the first quarter of 2025, according to the Global Insurance Market Index released today (24 April) by Marsh.
Throwback Thursday: Strikes impact Post
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to April 1980 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when our publication was lighter than usual on news due to the printing industry going on strike.
Brown & Brown buys broker; Crif and Crawford collab, Atec hire
Weekly Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Covéa finally swings back to profit
Covéa Insurance has swung from an £87.3m loss in 2023 to posting a £32.9m profit for 2024.
Big Interview: Tom Downey, Pen Underwriting
As Pen turns 10, CEO Tom Downey sits down with Harry Curtis to outline his plans to turn the MGA into the equal of the UK’s largest insurers.
Throwback Thursday: North Sea disaster; bullion raid
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to April 1980 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when heavy claims were expected following a North Sea disaster and the cost of a bullion raid was being counted.
Throwback Thursday: RSA shake-up; Axa’s advert drive
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to March 1998 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when a shake-up was going on at RSA and Axa wanted recognition.
Aviva creates dedicated commercial combined underwriting team
Aviva has put together 16 of its most experienced underwriters in a dedicated commercial combined underwriting team as it looks to give brokers the confidence to place larger, more complex risks online.
Throwback Thursday: CU & GA’s vow; Beazley’s hoax cover
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to March 1998 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when Commercial Union and General Accident were making promises, and bomb threat cover was created.