Climate change
Q&A: Julian Roberts, WTW
As climate volatility disrupts long-established farming traditions, Julian Roberts, managing director of risk and analytics (alternative risk transfer solutions) at WTW, explains why parametric insurance could be the tool that helps farmers plus the wider agricultural supply chain build resilience.
Insurers must go beyond traditional remit to meet society’s big challenges
View from the Top: Alain Zweibrucker, CEO of Axa Retail, argues issues like road safety and climate change demand insurers strengthen their relationships with customers.
How insurance fuels the global shift to cleaner energy
As governments and activists call for faster climate action, Damisola Sulaiman digs deep into how the insurance industry is quietly enabling the net zero transition by unlocking investment, managing emerging risks, and helping high-emission sectors go…
Lloyd's grows fossil fuel premiums
Lloyd’s of London is continuing to grow its fossil fuel business, according to analysis from non-governmental research and campaigning organisation Reclaim Finance.
Can insurers keep their climate promises?
Whether insurers are truly delivering on their climate commitments or just talking a good game is explored in the latest episode of the Insurance Post Podcast.
Swiss Re CEO urges ‘prevention over cure’ for climate risk
Swiss Re group CEO Andreas Berger has called for an industry-wide shift in the approach to climate risk.
Belfor calls for clarity in claims data collection
Managing director of Belfor UK Hein Hemke has argued insurers must communicate the purpose of added data collection as they make the claims process more data-driven.
CEO voices – A Sollers interview series: Interview with Ken Norgrove, CEO of Intact Insurance
Climate change is the top challenge. Reinsurance, nature-based solutions, and AI in pricing and claims are key. Success lies in blending tech and people. This article explores how digital claims, broker ties, and commercial lines can boost UK market…
Is home insurance fit for the future?
How the growing number of claims from floods, fires, and faulty technology has put traditional home insurance policies to the test is the focus of the latest Insurance Post Podcast.
Banks, insurers and their lawyers face climate reckoning
The Prudential Regulation Authority is tightening expectations on how banks and insurers manage climate risk, which Laurence Besemer, CEO of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, claims will reshape what they demand from their legal advisers.
Protesters target Lloyd's careers event
Protesters have targeted the Dive Into Careers Conference at Lloyd’s today (10 October).
The camper van and motorhome insurance risks we never saw coming
The world of motorhoming has rapidly evolved since Comfort Insurance started 1995. Here It highlights some of the surprising risks the provider didn’t see coming, showing the evolving nature of risks and the need to always be looking ahead.
Classic car insurance keeps vintage motors running
How the classic car insurance market has geared up for changing vehicle values, supply chain challenges, shifting owner expectations, plus environmental pressures is examined by Emma Ann Hughes.
Key drivers shaping the future of motor insurance
Nick Whiting, motor insurance expert at Guidewire discusses profitability challenges facing personal lines motor insurers can be traced to broader structural shifts in the motor industry.
Greater collaboration and data key to beating underinsurance despite peril uncertainty
Greater collaboration between property underwriters and brokers, married with the greater use of AI and data enrichment means the issue of underinsurance is being managed with greater focus than ever before.
Burning point: insurance and heat-driven perils
With a series of heatwaves dominating summer 2025, Fiona Nicolson looks how insurers are changing their approach to underwriting, modelling and climate-risk planning.
Spotlight: The ESG opportunity: insurers as partners in SME resilience
Insurers and brokers look set to play a pivotal role in ESG education and risk management – and potentially, there is a role for more specialist products and incentives to reward firms that demonstrate best practice, writes Rachel Gordon.
Why insurance belongs at the heart of the carbon transition
View from the Top: George Beattie, head of innovation at CFC, explains how insurance was the lynchpin of a landmark multimillion carbon credit deal.
Climate change fuels demand for UK offshore wind cat model
The effects of climate change have created demand for more granular catastrophe models for offshore wind projects in the UK, according to head of renewables, power and energy at McGill & Partners Tom Sexton.
Handling film production claims caused by climate change
Extreme weather is forcing film and television productions, insurers and loss adjusters to rethink cover limits for climate-related disruptions, according to Marion Jones, director of Spotlite Claims.
Beazley share price falls 12% after revised growth forecast
Beazley saw its share price fall by 12% today (13 August) after publishing half-year results that showed lower profits and included revised premium growth guidance.