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Direct Line CIO Jokhoo to leave at the end of the year
Direct Line Group’s chief information officer, Ash Jokhoo, is to leave the insurer at the end of the year, Insurance Post can reveal.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Allianz
Allianz has made significant strides to increase the brand’s presence in the UK and remains in the Top 10 of Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List.
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.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Drastic turnaround in profitability
Major players pulling out or significantly scaling back their personal lines propositions, while others saw commercial lines profits soar, has significantly shaken up Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers rankings in 2024, according to Ben Diaz-Clegg,…
Tesco’s fraud head is latest to join Direct Line’s top team
Ami North, Tesco Underwriting’s head of personal injury and fraud, is leaving to take up a role at Direct Line Group, Insurance Post can reveal.
Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Award winners revealed
Allianz (including LV), Aviva, DWF and Sedgwick were all multiple winners at the Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards last night (3 October).
Brace yourself: Dental injury claims quadruple
Insurers have seen a marked uptick in claims involving dental injuries in the last three years, according to law firm HF.
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.
LV reassures staff it is committed to Bournemouth
Allianz has confirmed that it plans to move roles lost to “natural attrition” to a call centre in India.
Which? reveals insurer premium finance APRs
Research conducted by Which? has found that several motor and home insurers are charging what the consumer watchdog called “excessively high levels of interest on monthly payments.”
Travel insurers that satisfy customers revealed
Saga, LV, Tesco Bank, Multitrip.com, and AA have the happiest travel insurance customers, according to the latest Fairer Finance survey.
Why data-sharing is essential to fighting travel insurance fraud
Following Scott Clayton, head of claims fraud at Zurich, stating the industry needs to share travel insurance data and create a database to crack down on fraud, Tom Luckham examines what it will take to stop travel being an easy target for false claims.
Is it time to ditch lithium ion batteries?
News Editor's View: Scott McGee considers if government legislation to make lithium ion batteries safer is too little too late for electric vehicle insurers and whether providers’ appetites for covering such cars will only return when manufacturers…
Allianz UK profits surge 55%
Allianz UK has reported a 55% increase in operating profit to £174.8m for the first six months of 2024, compared with £112.8m for the same period in 2023.
Jensten’s trio of acquisitions; Aviva’s Glasgow office; Swiss Re’s CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Insta-scammer left reeling following ghost broking sentence
A man who made £17,618 by selling invalid car insurance policies on Instagram has been handed a two-year suspended sentence.
2024 Claims and Fraud Awards shortlist revealed
The shortlist can today be revealed for the 2024 Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards.
Former RSA product director Ian Bostock passes away
Tributes have been paid to RSA’s former personal lines underwriting, governance and change director, Ian Bostock, after the insurer announced his death.
British Insurance Awards 2024 winners revealed
Aviva was among the big winners with four outright prizes at last night’s (3 July) British Insurance Awards, on an evening where former British Insurance Brokers’ Association CEO Steve White was recognised with The Achievement Award.
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.
Why home insurers must cut to the chase
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes is annoyed by home insurers’ waffling attempts to explain what is pushing up premiums.