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Top 30 European Insurers 2023: Claims inflation bites
Europe’s 30 largest non-life insurers have demonstrated solid top-line growth over the past two years, following a drop in 2020.
Diary of an Insurance PR: SEC Newgate's Vanessa Chance
Vanessa Chance, director of communications at SEC Newgate UK, raises the profile of Insurance United Against Dementia, learns more about using artificial intelligence in communications plus handles a potential reputational risk issue.
Aviva expands underwriting appetite; Flood Flash with Hiscox; Dual deal
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox achieves tenfold increase in H1 profits
Aki Hussain, group chief executive of Hiscox, has revealed how a decision to preserve capital over the last few years has paid off with bumper profits at the start of 2023.
Pen restructures; Percayso raises £2.7m; Axa’s Foley successor
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Axa XL’s carbon emissions product; Defaqto’s updated Matrix software; Flock appoints CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Qover partners with Zurich; Keoghs takes team from Plexus; Allianz appoints CIO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
WTW collabs with Clyde and Co; Canopius unveils cyber team; Hiscox appoints CIO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aon, Lloyd’s and VIG team up to support Ukraine’s reconstruction
Aon, Lloyd’s, and Vienna Insurance Group committed to providing enhanced reinsurance capacity to support Ukraine’s country’s recovery and reconstruction efforts.
Jensten and Hiscox partner; Aston Lark buys HNW book; Axa XL appoints reinsurance CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Could technology cause more to self-insure?
Edmund Tirbutt examines how the centuries-old insurance sector is using technology to shift from handling claims to focus on changing customer behaviour to reduce their risks.
Howden unifies business; Pikl partners with Confused; Gallagher sponsors the horses
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Zurich’s broker club; Novidea’s $50m funding; and Gallagher sponsors women’s rugby
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
How insurers are supporting King Charles’ green agenda
To mark HRH King Charles III's coronation, Fiona Nicolson examines the impact of his Sustainable Markets Initiative Insurance Task Force.
How insurance is making Manchester a northern powerhouse
Analysis: Ahead of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s Annual Conference taking over Manchester Central, Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes explores the challenges and opportunities facing general insurers and intermediaries based in the city.
Law firm Ince enters into administration
Law firm Ince Group, previously known as Ince Gordon Dadds, is set to appoint administrators after a major creditor withdrew its support following months of cashflow problems.
Gallagher buys Buck; Pen’s latest deal; Spring’s commercial PI binder
Friday Round-Up: Ahead of Good Friday and the Easter Bank Holiday, Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Energy crisis fails to derail insurers from hitting ESG targets
Data analysis: Insurers and reinsurers are managing to stick to their shorter-term goals of cutting underwriting emissions even during the energy crisis.
Lloyd’s steps up worst-case scenario planning for cyber and geopolitical risks
Lloyd’s is conducting exercises with the aim of better understanding how a major cyber event or adverse geopolitical developments might give rise to losses for the market.
Insurers with unsatisfactory websites named and shamed
Insurance companies with websites that fall short of consumer expectations have been named and shamed.
Hazards are still stalking the high seas for marine insurers
Analysis: David Worsfold examines how the Russia and Ukraine war has presented marine insurers with several tricky challenges, including insuring ships in the safe-grain corridor, and keeping abreast of the constantly changing sanctions regimes.
Scor extends Concirrus partnership; GRP makes fifth 2023 acquisition; Go Compare founder joins TCI
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Eight insurtech start-ups to watch in 2023
For the eighth year in a row Insurance Post content director Jonathan Swift casts an eye over the insurtech start-up space, and lists a number of firms worth watching over the next 12 months and beyond.
GRP buys Christopher Trigg; Aston Lark opens two regional offices; AIG appoints global head of distribution
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.