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Insurers argue ‘at the premises’ BI clauses don’t respond to widescale Covid-19 restrictions
Insurers say it is wrong to interpret ‘at the premises’ disease clauses in business interruption policies as being capable of responding to widescale, government ordered closures.
Brokers don’t care about insurers’ ESG work, reports suggest
Data analysis: Insurance brokers in the UK can’t name the insurers leading the way with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) work, a survey has shown.
How to build a successful MGA
Analysis: Emma Ann Hughes explores what it takes in the current economic climate to stand out from the crowd and secure funding for a managing general agent.
Former chief actuary of RSA Ireland banned for five years
Central Bank Ireland issued prohibition notice to Martin Ryan, former chief actuary at RSA Insurance Ireland.
Why the Consumer Duty could reduce general insurance options
Editor’s View: Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes is concerned the Consumer Duty combined with claims inflation could reduce choice for personal lines policyholders.
RSA’s personal motor withdrawal was More Than inevitable
Content Director's View: Jonathan Swift reflects on RSA's withdrawal from personal motor and concludes it had been coming for a few years now.
FCA reveals hundreds of BI claims still being considered
Three years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, the industry is still considering whether 341 business interruption insurance claims are valid.
RSA exits UK personal lines motor market
RSA is to exit the UK personal lines motor market following a thorough review, it announced with parent company Intact.
Insuring the new working world
Sam Barrett explores how the insurance industry is adapting employers’ liability insurance to reflect the risks associated with new ways of working post-Covid.
Diary of an Insurer: RSA’s Cath Frost
Cath Frost, regions managing director of RSA, starts the week with her coach and ends it by mentoring colleagues and shaping learning and development plans.
RSA quickens broker base build-out and plugs proposition gaps
RSA is aiming to strike up new trading relationships with twice as many brokers as it did last year in 2023, following steps to improve its level of service and its proposition.
Jensten buys three brokers; CFC launches IP solution; Optio appoints CEO
Friday Round Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Causes for concern for renewable energy insurers
Analysis: Harry Curtis explores the challenges facing the renewables insurance market and why smaller wind turbines installed over a decade ago are giving providers cause for concern.
RSA offloads pension liability in £6.5bn deal
RSA’s parent company, Intact, has agreed a £6.5bn buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation – allowing the company to pursue other “growth opportunities”.
Hazards are still stalking the high seas for marine insurers
Analysis: David Worsfold examines how the Russia and Ukraine war has presented marine insurers with several tricky challenges, including insuring ships in the safe-grain corridor, and keeping abreast of the constantly changing sanctions regimes.
Big freeze pushes RSA's personal lines to Q4 underwriting loss
Adverse weather drove RSA’s personal lines business to an underwriting loss in 2022, with freezing winter temperatures and dry summer conditions pushing its full-year combined ratio to 106.2%.
Insurer's diversity data collection called into question
Data analysis: Following the Financial Conduct Authority’s report on diversity and inclusion strategies in financial services firms in December, Insurance Post surveys attitudes towards D&I strategy among major insurers.
Will ditching Solvency II deliver a Brexit dividend or disaster for insurers?
Analysis: Rachel Gordon explores whether ditching Solvency II will free up billions of capital for insurers or ramp up risk and weaken consumer protection.
Flood insurance 'increasingly unaffordable' claims football CEO
Carlisle United Football Club’s CEO has claimed the price of flood insurance for the 119-year-old team’s Brunton Park ground is “increasingly unaffordable”.
Diary of an Insurer: RSA’s Jessica Riley
Jessica Riley, terrorism lead for commercial lines at RSA, packs in school runs, training for charitable races, a Christmas team catch-up, and making amendments to e-learning modules for terrorism into her working week.
The insurance challenges facing churches this Christmas
As the cost-of-living crisis causes many to feel the pinch this Christmas churches and places of worship have been undergoing a transformation when it comes to the use of the house of God, one that the specialist insurers in the market have had to…
RSA’s Gemma Jackson on moving faster on diversity, equity and inclusion
Gemma Jackson, head of diversity and inclusion at RSA Insurance, outlines what the insurance industry can do to meet its diversity and inclusion ambitions quicker.
Penny Black's Social World: December 2022
Footballing royalty, dementia help and catching fraudsters on TV.
Review of the Year 2022: Insurers
Senior figures from the insurance market look back on 2022 and reflect on what 2023 might bring.