Underwriting
Open GI x Covéa; Aviva’s cyber cover; PIB’s CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Duck Creek buys Send to bolster AI underwriting platform
Duck Creek Technologies has bought underwriting orchestration specialist Send Technology Solutions, creating what the company claims is the insurance industry’s first agentic underwriting-to-core platform.
The insurance factor you’re overlooking for 2026: Data analytics
In 2026, leading insurers will not only manage risk but also anticipate it, offering products, services, and interventions that proactively protect and empower customers. This blog post explores why data analytics will define the next era of insurance…
Big Interview: Tom Clementi, Pool Re
Tom Clementi, CEO of Pool Re, speaks to Insurance Post regarding his efforts to modernise the government-backed reinsurer, how terror risk has evolved, and where the firm sits on cyber.
When AI begins running the insurance workflow
Autonomous agentic operations mark the point where AI systems coordinate processes across underwriting, claims, customer engagement, and risk management. This blog sheds light on why the insurance industry has reached its ‘Netflix moment’ and how…
Pricing transformation in insurance: the underwriter perspective
Drawing on survey findings and insight from leading insurers, this report explores pricing modernisation through the underwriter's lens. It examines whether transformation efforts are delivering meaningful operational benefits – and what underwriters…
The AI boomerang: Why 2026 is the year broker work outran the broker
Clients now use AI to generate work at a volume brokers cannot match by hand, so demand on brokers is climbing. This blog sheds light on the emergence of AI boomerang, the impact on broker workflows and how successful brokers can stay ahead by pairing…
Aviva calls for forward-looking climate risk modelling
Insurers are relying too heavily on historical risk data, contributing to a widening protection gap as climate-related losses become more frequent and severe, according to Aviva.
Zurich launches life sciences offering in UK
Zurich has launched a life sciences insurance offering in the UK and Europe, expanding its existing US capabilities.
Agentic AI: The underwriter’s new co-pilot
The real bottleneck in commercial underwriting is not pricing the risk. It is the paperwork beforehand: sorting submissions, extracting data and chasing missing documents. This blog sheds light on the potential for agentic AI to assist underwriters in…
Pool Re launches terror resilience assessment tool
Terrorism reinsurer Pool Re has launched a tool aimed at helping policyholders assess and manage terrorism risk across property portfolios.
Zurich’s Hackett urges industry to win over Gen Z talent
Gen Z graduates are ‘bright’ and the industry needs to position itself as an attractive place to start a career for them, according to Bernadette Hackett, head of customer and distribution UK at Zurich.
Big Interview: Jane Poole, CFC
Jane Poole, chief financial officer of CFC, reveals how she is helping the insurer scale internationally, what she learned during Direct Line’s takeover saga, and why insurance still needs to do more to improve social mobility and leadership diversity.
Charity accuses Lloyd’s agents of ‘underperforming’ on climate change
Climate change progress has stalled significantly since 2024, with Lloyd’s managing agents performing worse across the board in ESG underwriting practices, according to a charity’s major climate change assessment.
What practical AI adoption looks like for insurers
At a recent Insurance Post webinar in conjunction with Hyland, industry leaders explored ‘AI in insurance: Moving from hype to practical impact’. This article highlights the key takeaways including how insurers are approaching AI adoption and practical…
Five insurtech capabilities the c-suite is discussing
The insurance industry is ripe for disruption if it doesn’t address the challenge of core modernisation, especially now with AI, which can be an accelerator or threat. This blog highlights five insurtech capabilities that insurance CEOs and CIOs are…
Outcome-seeking AI: Insurance’s next platform evolution
Once AI agents are trained across underwriting, claims, policy administration, and customer engagement, something fundamentally new becomes possible. This blog sheds light on why the emergence of outcome-seeking AI marks the beginning of a new phase in…
Building insurance software that endures
Tobias Bergmann, founder and CEO of tigerlab has spent more than 18 years building core insurance platforms for insurers, MGAs and brokers. This blog reflects upon what time has taught Bergmann about the technology that holds up over the long term and…
Axa XL and Scor stress need for multi-peril climate change insurance
Axa XL and Scor have said multi-peril coverage, in comparison to parametric solutions, can increase investor confidence for successful climate change coverage.
Q&A: Yvonne Moore, Zurich Resilience Solutions
Yvonne Moore, head of Zurich Resilience Solutions UK, speaks to Insurance Post about how resilience continues to evolve in the face of new risks, and what the firm does to prepare businesses for risk exposures.
LexisNexis warns of ‘reactive’ inefficiencies in motor claims handling
While underwriting and pricing has become more data-driven in recent years, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has warned that motor claims handling is still lagging behind, relying on “fragmented, reactive processes”.