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Blog: Cyber risk on Claims Club Asia's agenda
A very Happy New Year of the Goat and welcome to our Claims Club Asia blog.
Blog: Adding value through data
Historically, many businesses have looked to customer data to help build customer insight and shape their marketing activity
Claims Club Monthly Missive: Driverless cars, connected homes and PPOs
From Tennessee to London, over the past few months I have heard a considerable amount about the future of insurance.
Blog: Five Quindell headlines that should have rung alarm bells
Following the news today that Quindell founder and chairman Rob Terry has resigned from the board of directors with immediate effect, Post lists five recent headlines that spelt trouble for the firm.
Blog: Customer service lessons from the happiest place on earth
Katie Marriner sums up her experiences at this year's annual Applied Net conference at Disney World Orlando
Blog: Five benefits insurers could gain from the connected home
Post explores the main benefits insurers could derive from the connected home, if they play their cards right.
Blog: Five incidents that rocked Quindell's share price
Promising half year financial results from Quindell this week - in which revenue increased 119% to £357.3m off the back of organic growth and a 15:1 share consolidation aided a 292% rise in pre-tax profits to £153.7m – came as a timely boon for the…
Blog: Five ways - from telematics redundancy to cyber terrorism - that driverless cars will impact insurers
Driverless cars are set to be the biggest disruptive innovation of the early 21st century.
Post-blog: Turning information into new business
Information on clients and prospects has never been more plentiful or available.
Post-blog: Apprenticeships - diversifying the recruitment mix
National Apprenticeship Week begins next Monday. It’s the annual opportunity for businesses of all sizes to showcase best practice and success stories, and for parents, students and other companies to learn more about training programmes which go a long…
Downhill ski, medals triumph and failure, world records and curling - a risky business?
Ahead of Sochi, Sportscover Europe business development director Paul Thomas looks at the insurance risks behind the 22nd Winter Olympic Games.
Blog: Insurers care and so do the buyers of insurance…
Floods swept across the nation earlier in the year, causing problems for thousands of stranded home owners and driving insurance companies into top gear.
The Co-operative has done a u-turn over insurance sale - but for how long?
The news that the Co-operative Group has decided not to sell its insurance business after putting it in the shop window in March last year might have caught some on the hop.
Insurance and the 'Internet of Everything'
In October, research organisation Gartner declared the start of the ‘Digital Industrial Economy'.
The problem with the .london domain
Heralded as a first amongst the cities of the world, Boris Johnson last week announced that London is to get its very own web domain - .london.
Blog: The importance of data analysis
Data has always played a significant role in all key stages of the insurance customer lifecycle. But, increasingly, the onus is on insurers to take all the necessary steps to understand their customers, validate the information provided and assess the…
Blog: Time for change
The Insurance Fraud Bureau has been a positive, collectively funded vehicle for the industry in tackling organised motor fraud, and has influenced industry thinking.
Blog: Will Lloyd's lay down a marker and hire its first female CEO?
“I did not break down the barriers; they were broken down for me by the members of Lloyd’s in a very charming way.”
Blog: Driving down rates?
Is telematics actually providing young male drivers with the more competitive rates it promises? With two young sons about to take to the roads, David Waring finds out.
Claims Club Blog: 2013, the worst ever year for loss adjusters?
As we enter the final quarter of 2013 there appears to be no sign of any upturn in UK property claims activity.
Blog: Robin Spencer, Aviva’s latest GI fall guy
Lasting just 14 months as Aviva general insurance chief executive, Robin Spencer has left the business. Jonathan Swift looks at what went wrong.
Penny Speed meets... Barrie King, Branch Manager, Birmingham and Bristol, Axa
Being an insatiable socialite, Penny Black is always eager to probe the personalities behind the professional veneer of her industry friends. What better way to squeeze in and share as many intimate revelations as possible than her very own ‘speed…
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 12 September 2013
Penny was fascinated to see Scottish knitwear brand Lyle & Scott announce a bold new strategy for choosing its next CEO - Twitter.