Ecclesiastical
Optalitix and PWC team up; Ki goes standalone; Davies’s reshuffle
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Ecclesiastical’s Coleman on why great insurer service starts with culture
View from the Top: Richard Coleman, managing director of Ecclesiastical UK, explains why insurers should be putting more focus on service as part of their business strategy.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Business lines
A ranking of the top 100 UK Insurers for different general insurance business lines, based on data from AM Best’s Financial Suite.
Why the FCA should slash red tape to save brokers
News Editor’s View: Scott McGee examines the impact of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty, debating whether the regulator's promise to reduce the weight of regulation is too little, too late for small brokers struggling as a result of red…
Broker stress reaches five-year high
Broker stress has risen to the highest level since 2019, according to research from Ecclesiastical.
Allianz’s counter fraud head James Burge departing for Hiscox
James Burge, Allianz UK’s head of counter fraud, is leaving the insurer to take up a global role at Hiscox, Insurance Post can reveal.
Q&A: John Dunn, Brokerbility
After more than 18 months into his role as MD of Brokerbility, John Dunn catches up with Insurance Post to discuss bring clarity to the networks, refreshing tired shcemes, and how he hopes to help partners and members "outperform the market"
Women working in insurance earn 20% less than men
Gender pay disparities in the insurance industry continues to stubbornly persist, with virtually no companies reporting on whether an ethnicity pay gap exists.
Claims service continues to improve
The trend of overall improvement in claims service seen in the UK market continued in the second quarter of 2024.
ESG Spotlight: Ethics, talent and underwriting profit – how ESG can help insurers
While there is a lack of clarity on how insurers can embed ESG into working practices, despite its growing importance, Saxon East reports some insurers are showing the way.
Brokerbility targets member GWP growth of 20%
Brokerbility MD John Dunn says that while members are on average growing at about 16% per year, he wants growth to hit 20%.
Ecclesiastical pries Carey away from Allianz
Ecclesiastical has appointed Allianz’s Dave Carey as managing director of its intermediary business.
Longworth’s AI Code of Conduct has a ‘shelf life’
Eddie Longworth’s voluntary artificial intelligence (AI) code of conduct for the claims industry has a “shelf life”.
Roundtable: Staying ahead of insurance fraud
At a recent roundtable event, sponsored by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, an expert panel discussed the trends insurers are seeing around fraud, and the solutions firms are deploying to keep up with the increasingly sophisticated criminal activity being…
Crunch time for insurers’ Consumer Duty reports
One year on from the introduction of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty requirements for open products, Emma Ann Hughes investigates whether insurers will get a pat on the back or a clip round the ear from the regulator when they hand in…
Why are HNW MGAs dropping like flies?
After numerous MGAs operating in the high-net-worth space have either been sold or gone into run-off over the last few years, Scott McGee asks what does it take to survive in this space?
Freedom’s car integration; Tradex joins IFB; DWF’s chair
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
SRG buys broker; Lockton’s space practice; Markel’s head of casualty
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurer: Ecclesiastical’s Laura Carter
Fair value assessments, London landmarks, plus a fish and chip supper with the underwriting department feature in the working week of Laura Carter, customer segment director of Ecclesiastical Insurance.
How generative AI is everything, everywhere in insurance all at once
How insurers have been able to swiftly pilot generative artificial intelligence, prove the value of embracing this technology and roll it out across the wider business is examined by Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes.
Ecclesiastical is cautious about generative AI for complex tasks
Ecclesiastical’s generative artificial intelligence technology is not ready to support high value or complex task replacement, according to group technology director Graeme Howard.