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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.
EV manufacturers to face competition from China
Allianz chief claims officer Graham Gibson has told Insurance Post that electric vehicle OEMs "have their work cut out for them" ahead of stiff competition from Chinese firms entering the market.
MIB names Angus Eaton as new CEO
The Motor Insurers’ Bureau has appointed Hastings Group's Angus Eaton as its new CEO, replacing the outgoing Dominic Clayden.
Q&A: Ben Smyth, Arma Karma
Ben Smyth, CEO of contents insurance start-up Arma Karma, talks to Tom Luckham about the insurtech’s past, future, and how young people view insurance.
How insurance supports the growth of Glasgow
Analysis: Frances Stebbing investigates how insurance supports the growth of Glasgow and how the city is gaining ground against London for attracting and retaining fresh talent.
Pen’s Zurich deal; CFC’s M&A team; AIG’s leadership change
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
60 Seconds With... Value Space’s Reijo Pold
Reijo Pold, founder of Value Space, a technology company that uses satellites to conduct assessments for commercial properties and infrastructure, reveals he has been working since he was aged seven and doesn't even totally clock off when he goes on…
How to support insurance customers in vulnerable circumstances
As the Financial Conduct Authority intends to check claims-handling response times, and whether insurers are doing enough to help customers in vulnerable circumstances, Winn Group chief information officer Clint Milnes explains what providers need to do…
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?
ICG invests in Staysure; Jensten buys broker; Questgates’ legal rebrand
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Civil injury fraudster caught out by ‘Jeremy Kyle’ appearance
A fraudster has been convicted of exaggerating her civil injury claim after being caught out by footage of her on ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’.
Insurers' struggle to fill job vacancies laid bare
Data analysis: The extent to which insurance is an experienced employee’s, rather than an employer’s, is laid bare by recruitment adverts posted at the start of this year.
Zurich says there is nothing to lose from embracing flexible working
Steve Collinson, chief people officer at Zurich UK, said he “understands the reticence and the caution” of embracing more flexible working, but he insists the reality is “very different”.
Aviva’s telematics app; Ardonagh buys Westfield; Swiss Re appoints group CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Lloyd’s DEI role model Sheila Cameron
Last year, Lloyd’s commissioned Franklyn Rodgers to create six portraits of diverse role models. We complete our series of spotlighting them all by speaking to Sheila Cameron, the CEO of the Lloyd’s Market Association
Cila boss’s son gets approval for ‘challenger broker’
Chris Bissell, son of Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters’ executive director John Bissell, has received Financial Conduct Authority approval for his broker firm Bissell & Partners.
iCan founder launches broker; Chaucer enters weather market; RSA's property director
Thursday Round-Up: As tomorrow is Good Friday, Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week, a day early.
Q&A: Carmen Powell, ISC Group
Carmen Powell, interim managing director of ISC Group, explains how she intends to expand the women’s insurance network’s reach over the next six months as well as tackle Sexism in the City.
Suspected serial insurance fraudster arrested
Operation Henhouse, a month-long nationwide 'policing intensification' on fraud that ran through February, has resulted in the arrest of a suspected serial insurance fraudster.
‘Common sense prevails’ as Supreme Court rejects insurer mixed injury appeals
The Supreme Court has rejected the insurer-led appeal against its decision on the first two cases of mixed-injury claims involving both whiplash and non-whiplash injuries.
Biba’s Trudgill on attracting fresh talent to insurance
Trade Voice: Graeme Trudgill, CEO of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association, reports on the body’s efforts to pitch a career in insurance to school pupils.