Insurtech
Innovating insurance with persona-based insights and tools
Insurers face growing pressure to deliver smarter, personalised, data-driven experiences to relevant personas including brokers, customers and employers.
21 businesses vie for a place in latest cohort for Lloyd’s Lab
The Lloyd’s Lab held a pitch day for its 14th cohort earlier this week, with 21 businesses vying for a spot in the 10-week accelerator programme.
Trust in AI
Polarisation between AI’s doomsayers and its evangelists may have abated but the technology still promises enormous rewards alongside great risks.
Q&A: Sivan Iram, Flow Specialty
Sivan Iram, CEO and co-founder of Flow Specialty, shares with insurance Post the reasoning behind launching an artificial intelligence broker agent, as well as how the firm retains its quality.
The case of the missing millions: Understanding data quality in reinsurance
When it comes to reinsurance claims recovery, spreadsheets are filled with manual calculations, data is scattered across multiple systems, and millions in recoveries have vanished.
Spring Statement 2025: What insurers should know
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her 2025 Spring Statement today (26 March) with a mix of spending cuts, investment pledges, and economic forecasts.
British Insurance Technology Awards is open for entries
The prestigious British Insurance Technology Awards are now open for entries.
Zurich’s Clayton says let tech guide your fraud teams
Zurich’s head of fraud Scott Clayton has urged the industry to keep counter fraud a “people business”, but to allow technology to act as a guide.
GenAI in insurance: A roadmap for digital transformation
Generative AI (GenAI) has emerged as a disruptive force in the insurance industry, capable of revolutionising underwriting, claims processing, fraud detection, and more.
Zego CEO predicts fully autonomous motoring ‘within 40 years’
Sten Saar, CEO of Zego, has said a “fully autonomous world is coming”, and that it will be here in 40 years as a “worst-case scenario”.
Miller flags Trump’s impact on parametrics
Alice Glenister, head of parametrics at Miller, has called for the market to develop more data sources outside the US due to President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal scientific research bodies.
Hiscox offers update on plan for genAI underwriting
Hiscox and Google Cloud have shared plans to introduce generative artificial underwriting to more lines of business and explained what it took to get it working last year for terrorism cover.
Innovate and evolve: How to win the 2030 insurance technology challenge
The insurance industry has always been built on risk management, but what if the biggest risk now is standing still?
Five ways to simplify commercial lines
The commercial lines insurance industry stands at a pivotal crossroads, where unprecedented challenges meet boundless opportunities for innovation.
Instanda teases ‘moonshot’ AI commercial lines product
Tim Hardcastle, CEO and co-founder of Instanda, has revealed plans for a “moonshot” complex commercial lines product later this year.
Understanding insurer motivations for modernisation and transformation
As the pace of change continues to accelerate and technology evolves, insurers are looking at ways to modernise existing technology, streamline operations, and achieve greater business agility.
Ripe to launch pet insurance product in 2025
Ripe plans to launch a pet insurance product later this year, according to CEO Alan Thomas.
Video Q&A: Key trends that will shape the automotive and motor insurance sectors in 2025 and beyond
In this Q&A video, Europcar’s head of insurance sales James Roberts addresses the key trends that will shape the automotive and motor insurance sectors in 2025 and beyond.
Cytora joins Google Cloud; PIB buys MGA; SRG’s head of corporate
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
What has driven loss adjuster start-ups to near extinction?
Content Director’s View: The beginning of the century saw a number of loss adjusting start-ups fueled by entrepreneurial managers and teams determined to go it alone and forge their own paths outside of the incumbent ‘big boys’ but of late these new…
How can MGAs strike a perfect balance between competitive pricing and profitability?
For MGAs, there is a fine balance to be found between pricing competitively to attract customers, whilst avoiding aggressive pricing that can lead to underwriting losses if risks aren’t fully understood.
Q&A: Chaz Perera, Roots Automation
Chaz Perera, CEO and co-founder of Roots Automation, tells Insurance Post about the firm’s generative artificial intelligence model specially trained for insurance InsurGPT and the challenges in the industry this technology is primed to solve.
How AI is reshaping insurance in 2025
Rory Yates, global head of strategy at EIS, Kennedys IQ chief products officer Karim Derrick, Paul O’Brien, chief AI officer of Davies, Charles Clarke, group vice-president of Guidewire Analytics, and Hiscox chief technology officer Ian Wrigglesworth…
How the pandemic transformed travel insurance
Tom Luckham explores the travel insurance market post-Covid and analyses what kind of effect the pandemic had on the industry, and which effects are still lingering.