Technology
Improving Underwriting: Driving Profits
Can a more sophisticated approach to underwriting help motor insurers finally turn a profit?
Improving Underwriting: The extra mile
The use of geographic intelligence can improve the understanding of risk in the motor insurance space.
Biba and Willis back social media site
Social media platform My Slipcase has signed up members from 342 insurance and reinsurance organisations since it launched nine months ago.
Digital Insurance Strategies: Mobile strategy vital as smartphone use increases
Google finance industry head Jo Hind has insisted that firms’ social media strategies must be handled at board level to ensure they becomes part of the corporate culture.
Expertise in Action: Pricing: Looking for support
With brokers calling on insurers to share more information and provide greater practical assistance, how can both parties – and their clients – benefit from better collaboration?
Go Skippy signs up two new partners
General Legal Protection has won a contract to provide breakdown cover to customers of online car insurance broker Go Skippy in a deal it claims is worth in excess of £600 000 over the next 12 months.
Halifax warns of £32bn technology insurance black hole
More than one in 10 people do not have sufficient insurance for their technology devices, creating a £32bn insurance black hole, according to the Halifax.
Bluefin signs software deal with CDL for Leeds hub
Bluefin appointed insurance software provider CDL for its personal lines platform in Leeds.
Post Blog: Making the most of data
In the second part of a two part special, Sabine VanderLinden, head of value propositions at SSP, explains the advantages of effectively utilising big data.
Wunelli and EE join forces to deliver driving scores to insurers
Telematics provider Wunelli has joined forces with communication giant EE to develop mobile-to-mobile network communications to deliver vehicle driving and usage patterns to insurers.
Brokers bemoan electronic claims systems as service satisfaction declines
Brokers have blamed an over-reliance on electronic systems for a decline in London market insurers’ claims standards.
Cyber Liability: Dangerous territory
As demonstrated by several Twitter-related defamation cases in 2012, unfiltered user-generated content means social media can be a libel minefield. How is the insurance industry responding to the ever-evolving risk?
Website review: Slow response bytes into Zurich performance
Availability was good, but not as good as most of its competitors, says compuware firm Gomez.
GAB Robins expands tablet adjusting programme
Loss adjuster GAB Robins is to deploy tablets with all loss adjusting teams by the end of Q2.
Xchanging 'makes history' with ECF app launch
Xchanging has launched a mobile application for the London insurance market in a move it claims will "make history in the market".
Assurant director joins competitor as MD
The Source has appointed Assurant Intermediary's former sales & marketing director Kevin Paterson as its new managing director.
Post Blog: Does size matter?
In the first part of a two part special, Sabine VanderLinden, head of value propositions at SSP considers the use of big data.
$400m satellite loss biggest in market history
The destruction of a satellite during launch last week is believed to be the largest insured loss in the history of the space market.
90% of London market claims processed electronically
The use of electronic claims files in the London company market is much more extensive than previously stated, according to the International Underwriting Association.
Sterling launches software company
Sterling Insurance has launched Sterling Technologies, a software company aimed at financial services clients.
Action Claims unveils new brand
Action Claims is rebranding as Action 365 as of today in a move that it hopes will reflect the portfolio of products and services it provides to its broker and insurer clients.
Interview: Theo Duchen and David McDonald: Human Kind
Acturis co-founders Theo Duchen and David McDonald have preferred to stay under the radar in the early days but, more than a decade on, the software experts explain they would not be where they are today without investing in people power and allowing…
Spotlight On: Telematics: On the road to a new era
Has the EU Gender Ruling finally brought telematics to the fore to drive new growth in the motor sector?
Online exclusive: Easing the customer journey
Which companies provide the best customer experience for motor and home insurance buyers? Global Reviews reveals all in its quarterly benchmarking report.