Opinion
C-Suite - Insurer: Foresight is a wonderful thing
It is vital that insurers look ahead to try and offer products to customers before they demand them.
Legal Update: Consultations on small claims limit won't be plain sailing
The personal injury reforms announced in the Autumn Statement are to be welcomed. But is Chancellor George Osborne being too bold when he packages them as part of a wider plan to reduce car insurance premium?
Europe: What's driving telematics growth
Alongside North America, Europe so far represents the vast majority of all insurance telematics policies, with Italy and the UK leading the pack.
Editor's Comment: A once-in-100-years opportunity?
This week, as climate change experts gathered in Paris to discuss future targets, Cumbria was hit by its second deluge of flood waters in six years as Storm Desmond ravaged the UK.
Legal Update: Between a rock and hard place
Nick Rogers examines where liability attaches when an autonomous vehicle cannot avoid an accident.
C-Suite - MGA: A quick start could be golden
Pre-quote pre-cover surveys could play a huge part in keeping the customer happy.
C-Suite - Broker: From here to eternity
Premium rates will forever go up and down – how can we ensure our margins aren’t compromised?
C-Suite - Insurer: Cash in hand
The insurance industry must show customers they will reap the benefits of government changes.
Europe: Cyber thieves - the nightmare before Christmas for insurers
The nights are drawing in, Christmas is coming, and retailers are getting fat on the back of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which have boosted annual high street sales this year to record levels.
C-Suite - Insurer: Standing strong together
Regulation of CMCs is welcome, but the industry can also do its bit to show it isn’t a pushover.
Asia C-Suite: Malaysia's liberalisation
A senior Malaysia broker gives his verdict on Malaysia's increasing insurance liberalisation which will include the removal of tariffs.
Editor's Comment: Fighting for recognition
Last week Post, with its sister title Insurance Age, launched its first online Oxford-style debate, asking readers if insurance will ever match medicine, law or accountancy as a profession.
Trust in Insurance: Blog: How deep is your love?
The aim to make money means customers start with the assumption that insurers will reject claims.
C-Suite - Broker: Time to go big on analytics
Brokers need to respond quicker to client demand for recommendations based on big data.
Editor's Comment: A significant loss for AIG?
The news that AIG’s UK managing director Jacqueline McNamee is among those implicated in the cost-cutting and restructuring initiative for the insurer, which is expected to cost $500m (£326.9m) but also create annualised savings of $400m to $500m, has…
C-Suite: Tracking driving behaviour on the smartphone
Smartphone telematics apps are providing valuable data for insurers writes Paul Stacy.
C-suite - Insurer: Earning trust
Trust comes in rational and emotional forms, and there’s a way of winning both from customers
C-Suite - Broker: Change looming
The Insurance Act will have a massive effect on the way clients, brokers and insurers interact
Trade Voice: All change
With the Insurance Act and several important decisions in the courts, it’s been a busy year legally speaking
Legal update: Late revival but early introduction?
The market needs to consider the impact of late payment provisions now, says Nick Young
Editor's comment: Join the digital revolution
It’s fair to say that most people wouldn’t describe the current UK insurance industry as digitally innovative.
C-Suite: Insurer - Forever friends
Every customer wants to feel their insurer is doing right by them.
Europe: Ready for schemes
Schemes business is booming in the UK, but what of the European market?
Legal Update: A more level playing field?
Recent cases indicate a more robust court approach to vicarious liability, says Alastair Gillespie.