Professional indemnity (PI)
Meta and YouTube case creates multi-line risk for insurers
A Los Angeles jury’s decision that Meta and YouTube are liable for harms associated with addictive platform design has far reaching implications for insurers, according to Jonathan Edwards, partner at HCR Law.
Alps’ landlord support; Pen’s PI expansion; QBE’s partner
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Big Interview: Russell White, NPA Insurance and Peach
Russell White, CEO of NPA Insurance and Peach, sits down with Harry Curtis to explain how the government’s plans to reshape the NHS are fuelling ambitions to write a varied portfolio of MGA and schemes business.
Is AI negligence the next legal fault line for PI insurers?
David Pryce, senior partner at Fenchurch Law, explains why unchecked reliance on artificial intelligence is already exposing legal professionals to negligence risks and potential gaps in insurance cover.
Big Interview: Colin Johnson, Hadron International
As a former footballer turned fronting-carrier CEO, Hadron’s Colin Johnson knows the best managers succeed by creating a top team, who can achieve goals, and know the way the opposition plays.
Storm brewing in legal PI market over genAI
As generative AI becomes embedded in professional workflows, Marcel Le Gouais explores how insurers are grappling with a rising wave of silent PI exposure driven by lawyers and other advisers mishandling AI-generated outputs.
Insurers Review of the Year 2025
Insurers managed to post profits amid a softening market in 2025, invested in technology and pushed to reaffirm the industry’s vital role in protecting society with the Labour government and regulators.
Commercial insurance market shrinks as trades grow
A decade of mergers, exits and product withdrawals has reduced provider and product numbers across most commercial insurance segments with the exception of tradesman and professions, which are now driving the only area of growth.
Alp’s Acturis product; Tide’s SME cover; Marsh Corporate’s MD
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Staysure enters Irish market; Rokstone’s cyber unit; Send’s CTO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
‘Modular’ SME policies could be key to fighting underinsurance
Simplified and modular insurance policies could help abate underinsurance in SMEs, according to Hiscox’s group chief underwriting officer Joanne Musselle.
Mutual calls for cash from members following Grenfell fallout
Wren Insurance Association, which specialises in insuring architectural firms, has demanded more money from its members as it continues to struggle with claims relating to the Grenfell tragedy back in 2017.
Long-term participants have an edge in ‘challenging’ PI market
Underwriting adaptability and prudence are all important in the face of a professional indemnity insurance market swimming in capacity and a turbulent geopolitical environment, Markel senior underwriter Joanne Healy has told Post.
Starpeak x Peach; Liiba’s commercial report; Aon’s head of professional services
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Architects take first step towards mutual insurer
Architects have taken the first step towards setting up an insurance mutual with a new scheme to provide professional indemnity cover to small-to-medium-sized practices.
Q&A: Edward Ambrose, RSA
Edward Ambrose, UK head of professional indemnity at RSA, tells Post about the development of the insurer’s pioneering climate professionals PI product, which launched last year, and its reception in the market.
Q&A: Stuart Heath, Tokio Marine HCC
Earlier this year, Tokio Marine HCC appointed Stuart Heath as international head of distribution in addition to his role as head of delegated property. He told Post about how the insurer is hoping to ride out the soft market and its biggest growth…
Professional indemnity insurance for lawyers and accountants
Danny Seaman, professional indemnity specialist at Miller, Peter Stephens, head of PI at Westfield Specialty, and Matthew Harvey, account director of ProFin at the Clear Group, reveal what is behind the softening of the professional indemnity insurance…
Galjaard cautious of history repeating itself with returning competition
While he hopes the market has matured in the last few years, Markel’s managing director for the UK, Neil Galjaard, is hoping brokers “have long memories” of providers that exited markets when things got tough.
Markel’s Galjaard outlines plan to double the UK business
Markel’s UK managing director Neil Galjaard shared the business has just signed off a growth strategy that aims to double the size of the business by 2030.
Gallagher on the hook for up to £5m damages
The High Court has ruled Gallagher could owe damages of up to £5m to a housing trust due to its negligence resulting in its client missing out on data breach cover.