Please find below full details of articles currently being written for Insurance Post. 

The following features and analysis pieces are being produced for Insurance Post in the next few weeks.

If you would like to contribute comment, information or data to the features listed below, then please contact the journalist directly by no later than the deadline stated. Telephone interviews will be given priority over written submissions.

Get involved

Diary of an Insurer gives those working in the insurance industry a glimpse of what the working week is like for individuals in different functions across an array of companies in the sector. To share your experience of working in insurance please email emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com.

Our ‘60 Seconds with’ column allows you to really find out what makes middle managers tick. What can’t they live without, what chores do they hate and what would they call their autobiography? Do you know a middle manager who we should get to know better? Contact emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com.

Also, if you would like to share your thoughts on the latest insurance news, data, and market activity, then please email your opinion piece ideas to postonline@infopro-digital.com.

AI Week is back!

Insurance Post will once again be examining how generative artificial intelligence is transforming the insurance industry in 2025.

Your Views

Editor Emma Ann Hughes is looking for 600-word comment pieces from insurance and loss adjusting companies covering:

• What has been the return on your investment in generative AI to-date?
• What have been the biggest challenges you have faced in implementing generative AI?
• What do you expect to be the greatest challenges and opportunities from the use of generative AI in the future?

Please email your comment, along with a photograph of the author, to emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com by Friday 2 May.

Feature: How insurers are harnessing the potential of generative AI

Writer: Rachel Gordon (rachelcgordon@hotmail.com)

Deadline: Friday 11 May

Despite generative AI’s huge potential, the risks and challenges of implementing and using this technology can hurt the efforts of ill-informed and ill-prepared businesses.

• How have insurers addressed data quality issues, transparency of deep-learning models, ethical concerns around sensitive customer data, ensuring strategies comply with new and updated regulations, and potentially high costs?
• What do insurers need to do to prepare for accelerating changes in order to get the most out of AI in 2025 and beyond?
• Is there a growing divide between insurers who dabble with generative AI and those integrating it even deeper into their core insurance business processes?

AI News

Senior reporter Damisola Sulaiman is looking to interview technology leaders at insurance and loss adjusting companies about:

• How is generative artificial intelligence boosting operational efficiency, elevating customer experience, optimising risk assessment, improving fraud detection, refining pricing accuracy and enhancing customer interactions in 2025?
• What use cases has your company identified for generative AI in 2025?
• What is the objective of a pilot? How did you measure the outcome of the pilot and roll-out the technology into a live environment?
• What impact – financially or other key performance indicators – has the work had on the business?

Please email damisola.sulaiman@infopro-digital.com to arrange an interview.

Features

Topic: How IT innovation is impacting independent insurance brokers

Writer: Tom Luckham (tom.luckham@infopro-digital.com)
Deadline: Friday 4 April

The ongoing reinvention of insurance distribution creates different challenges - and opportunities - for small, independent brokers compared to their mega-broker rivals.
 

• How are independent insurance brokers dealing with the challenges and opportunities stemming from digital transformation, evolving client needs, and the rise of technology?
• How are insurers and the software houses helping arm brokers to meet clients digital needed head on with portals, products and e-trading platforms?
• What impact has the rise of online insurance platforms plus consolidation creating broking giants like Aon, Howden and Gallagher had on small, independent insurance brokers ability to compete?

Topic: Keep on trucking – safety and HGV fleet insurance

Writer: Rachel Gordon (rachelcgordon@hotmail.com)

Deadline: Friday 4 April

Heavy goods vehicles represent less than 3% of vehicles on Europe’s roads but are involved in nearly 15% of all road fatalities.

• Euro NCAP, the independent body behind vehicle safety, launched its Safer Trucks testing programme in November last year to create a safety standard for HGVs. What impact has this had on HGV insurance?
• How are fleet insurers using data to shape the approach they take to products, services, and risk management?
• How is the insurance industry working with road authorities, hauliers, drivers, ruck manufacturers, and businesses shipping and hauling their goods to improve safety standards?

Topic: Could airline insurance be about to skyrocket?

Writer: David Worsfold (david@worsfoldmedia.com)

Deadline: Monday 7 April

How could an increasing number of claims, reinsurance, retrocession and recruitment costs change conditions in the airline insurance market?

• Will the potential resolution of the ongoing Russia/Ukraine leasing claims rapidly reduce reinsurer and/or insurer appetite, altering market conditions?
• While aviation insurance supply is currently plentiful, could more challenging conditions emerge as 2025 progresses following recent loss events?
• Aviation reinsurers have performed strongly in recent years and their portfolios appear to have been balanced, but are margins sufficient to cover capital costs moving forward?
• Could increasing costs of smaller or attritional claims (which are typically absorbed before an insurer’s reinsurance programme responds), eat away at margin, leaving little left to cover major loss events?

Topic: Liverpool’s insurance history – and reshaped future

Writer: Harry Curtis (harry.curtis@infopro-digital.com)

Deadline: Thursday 1 May

According to the Association of British Insurers, there are 4,000 insurance jobs in Liverpool contributing £405m to the local economy.

With the Airmic Annual Conference 2025 taking place at ACC Liverpool at the start of June, Post examines how insurance shaped the city in the past, what it is like to work in the sector today plus how the industry helps people and businesses in the region thrive.

• What were the origins of the insurance industry in Liverpool?
• How have insurers supported Liverpool in the past?
• What impact has RSA exiting personal lines to focus on commercial lines had on insurance in Liverpool in recent years?
• How has the insurance industry in Liverpool changed since the 1980s when Royal Insurance, Eagle Star, Phoenix, Legal & General, Guardian Royal Exchange, Iron Trades, Commercial Union, Sun Alliance and Liverpool Victoria all had large offices in the city?
• How are insurers teaming up with industries and businesses in the city to support the growth of Liverpool and the surrounding region today?

If you work in the insurance industry in Liverpool, we would also love to receive your answers to the following questions:

• What are the opportunities and challenges of working in the insurance industry in Liverpool?
• When it comes to attracting, developing, and retaining insurance talent in Liverpool, what approach/activity is working for your organisation?
• How do you engage with your representative trade body in Liverpool? What do you gain from that engagement?
• Where is the best place to go in Liverpool to meet with external contacts and/or colleagues?
• What would you recommend visiting/doing in Liverpool to someone who wants to experience the city’s culture?

Topic: M&A and cyber security

Writer: Tim Evershed (mail@timevershed.co.uk)

Deadline:  Friday 2 May

Research has highlighted an alarming trend for M&A deals hitting delays, or even collapsing, due to cyber security vulnerabilities and the loss of critical data. According to a study by Forbes, 40% of acquiring organisations involved in an M&A transaction detected a cyber security vulnerability, raising questions about data security.

• How does M&A insurance work?
• Does it cover data loss?
• Would these losses be covered under cyber policies?
• What risk management advice can insurers give to companies and M&A professionals to prevent data loss?

Topic: Welcome to Bancassurance 2.0

Writer: Emma Ann Hughes (emma.hughes@infopro-digital.com)

Deadline:  Friday 2 May

In 2025, the global bancassurance market is projected to continue growing, driven by digital transformation, demand for insurance, and the integration of artificial intelligence and data analytics to enhance customer experiences and personalise offerings.

• How are banks and insurance companies leveraging digital platforms and online channels to offer insurance products, making it easier for customers to access and manage their policies?
• What lessons have been learned from digital disruptors like Amazon when it comes to surfacing and selling insurance and banking products in the online shops and retailers that consumers more likely to visit via their screens than enter on the high street?
• How are mobile banking and digital insurance platforms streamlining operations and enhancing the customer experience?
• What are the FCA’s rules for open finance likely to be? What impact will this have on bancassurance?
• What is the future of bancassurance? How will banks and insurance companies bring together various stakeholders, including technology providers, to offer a broader range of solutions?

Topic: Insurers upping their female football game

Writer: Damisola Sulaiman (damisola.sulaiman@infopro-digital.com)

Deadline:  Wednesday 7 May

Ahead of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, which runs from 2 to 27 July in Switzerland, Insurance Post is examining how the sector has upped its game in supporting female sport.

• What have insurers done to close the welfare gap with men’s sports?
• What kind of claims are seen in women’s sports? How do injuries differ due to female and male anatomies and hormones? What are the abuse and safeguarding issues?
• Given pay disparity, what impact does this have on insurance risks for female footballers?
• How are insurers engaging with governing bodies and clubs to ensure employment rights, coaching practices, kit design and safeguarding approaches keep the Lionesses in top condition and ensures they are capable of winning the Euros?

Topic: How Gen AI helps insurers get actionable insights
 

Writer: Chris Marshall (marshallchris537@gmail.com)
Deadline: Wednesday 12 May

To handle claims efficiently, insurers must ensure their processes are fit for purpose in the modern world. The same rigid 10-question script for claims handlers managing a storm event may not be right for every situation, for example.

• What challenges do business, property and motor insurers face in modernising and personalising the claims journey?
• To what extent are they using generative artificial intelligence to shape the claims process and ensure claimants are taken down the most relevant journey?
• How else is GenAI being used to provide actionable insights for claims staff from both structured and unstructured data?