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Insurance perils of driving home for Christmas
As motorists get ready to celebrate Christmas, Emma Ann Hughes examines the road risks of the festive period, explores accident-prevention strategies, and checks whether insurers’ claims teams are as prepared for seasonal challenges as Santa’s elves are to deliver presents.
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.
Monzo’s new cover; Aviva boosts renewables; Laka raises £7.7m
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
British Insurance Awards 2025 winners revealed
Aviva was crowned General Insurer of the Year and Airmic CEO Julia Graham, pictured, took home the Achievement Award at the 2025 British Insurance Awards last night (9 July).
Policy Expert’s profit skyrockets 500%
Policy Expert has today (25 June) released its financial results for the 12 months ending 31 March 2025, reporting an increase in pre-tax profit of more than 500%.
Insurers exposed for pricing bias over payment preference
Some insurers and brokers on price comparison websites are inflating motor premiums based solely on whether a customer indicates a preference for paying monthly instead of annually, an investigation by Insurance Post has revealed.
Rising water excess fuels distrust in home insurers
Peter Roper, head of research at Fairer Finance, argues home insurers need to do more to help customers understand the cover they are purchasing to increase satisfaction in the sector's products and services.
Big Interview: Mark Eastham, Avantia
Mark Eastham, CEO of Home Protect and Avantia Group, reveals how he will turn the business into the first insurer to have an artificial intelligence-driven operating model, plus whether an acquisition of the non-standard home insurer could be on the…
Insurance industry’s most powerful players revealed
Making multi-billion-pound takeover bids for rivals and challenging political posturing is what it took to secure the top spots on Insurance Post’s 2025 Power List.
Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
By making the most of his quarter century of insurance industry experience, Steve Hardy has pushed Policy Expert to rapid growth in recent years.
Paul Jewell, Bridgehaven
Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell launched the UK’s first hybrid fronting insurer in the summer of 2023 and his business is already on track to achieve £400m to £500m of gross written premium by the end of 2025.
Policy Expert bosses outline plan to double GWP
Policy Expert CEO Steve Hardy has laid down a target to double the size of the business within five years and become a top five provider of pet insurance in the UK.
Bridgehaven on course to hit £400m GWP
Eighteen months on from launching the UK’s first hybrid fronting insurer in the summer of 2023, Bridgehaven CEO Paul Jewell has revealed his business is on track to achieve £400m to £500m of gross written premium by the end of 2025.
Ex-Aviva CEO Wilson named Policy Expert chair
Policy Expert has appointed Mark Wilson as its new chair, effective from February 2025.
AI system launched to overhaul claims settlements
Stephen Kavanagh, who has spent more than 25 years developing technology to transform financial service business processes, has created a system that overhauls how insurance losses are assessed and settlements reached.
Optalitix and PWC team up; Ki goes standalone; Davies’s reshuffle
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Big Interview: Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
Steve Hardy, CEO of Policy Expert, talks to Tom Luckham about the firm’s plans for expansion, addresses claims concerns, and reveals what American musician Iggy Pop is really like.
Policy Expert reveals lessons learnt after customer complaints
Steve Hardy, CEO of Policy Expert, outlines the changes it made following issues with the claim of a dissatisfied customer who then went on to create an action group.
Policy Expert gets capacity for pet push
Policy Expert has announced Bridgehaven will provide capacity for the business alongside Accredited, allowing the personal lines insurer to finally launch pet cover.
Post-pandemic supply-chain issues beginning to ‘stabilise’
Aviva's technical claims manager Martin Smith has told Insurance Post that supply-chain issues caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have ‘stabilised.’
Insurance Post’s Top 90 MGAs revealed
Ardonagh Group, Brown & Brown, Gallagher, Markerstudy and Policy Expert are the UK’s five biggest MGAs.