Tech shift in insurance slashes underwriting and pricing job vacancies
Automation and artificial intelligence-driven algorithms are reducing the number of new underwriting hires at the start of 2025, according to exclusive data analysis by Michael Stefan, partner at executive recruitment firm Hanover.
Hanover’s dataHanover has analysed data covering nearly 4000 vacancies posted by UK-based insurers, intermediaries and auxiliary services firms at the end of February 2025.
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