Travel insurance
IFB to launch integrated fraud database in 2026
The Insurance Fraud Bureau will launch a ‘unified fraud technology platform,’ which will integrate insurance fraud datasets into one database, in 2026.
Extent of hollowing out of travel insurance uncovered
Almost nine out of 10 (88%) of travel insurance products no longer provide cover for scheduled airline failure, data from Defaqto has revealed..
Did insurance deserve to be snubbed by the NY Honours List?
News Editor’s View: Despite more than 1,200 names on the New Year’s Honours List 2025, leading lights from the world of insurance were hardly to be seen. Scott McGee asks if it is justified and what the sector's staff need to do to be celebrated.
Why Aviva and Direct Line mega merger is nothing to fear
Editor’s View: Working her way through centuries of issues of Insurance Post just as Direct Line’s shareholders accepted Aviva’s £3.7bn bid for the business proved a timely reminder for Emma Ann Hughes of the pros and cons of mega mergers.
Insurers Review of the Year 2024
Insurers share their highlights of 2024 and hopes for more economic stability, less regulatory tinkering and fewer storms in 2025.
MIB expands use of digital green cards
From 2025, all countries that make up the green card system will be required to accept Green Cards electronically as proof of insurance when travelling.
Making sure Father Christmas is covered
Insurance Post editor Emma Ann Hughes has made a list of Santa Claus’s risks and got the insurance industry’s leading lights to check it twice in order to recommend products plus services for the man tasked with delivering a holly, jolly Christmas this…
'No current plans' for travel claims database, says MIB
The Motor Insurers’ Bureau has told Insurance Post that it has “no current plans” to develop a travel equivalent of the claims and underwriting exchange, despite industry-wide calls.
Big Interview: Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
Steve Hardy, CEO of Policy Expert, talks to Tom Luckham about the firm’s plans for expansion, addresses claims concerns, and reveals what American musician Iggy Pop is really like.
Q&A: Gary Murphy, Gigasure
Gary Murphy, head of travel at recently launched MGA Gigasure, talks to Insurance Post about the firms’ travel agenda and balancing transparency with policy personalisation
GBG Insurance enters liquidation
GBG Insurance has been put into liquidation by Guernsey Royal Court, following the company entering administration last December.
Zurich buys AIG’s global travel insurance business
Zurich has completed a deal to take AIG’s global personal travel insurance and assistance business for USD $600m (£473m), plus a potential earn-out payment.
Q&A: Alan Dean, CoverForYou & Outbacker
Alan Dean, managing director for travel insurance firms CoverForYou and Outbacker, discusses rising fraud levels, what's driving travel insurance complaints, and encouraging customers to engage with their policies.
Axa accused of threatening to pull cover from brain injury victim
Axa Partners reportedly insisted that a woman suffering from multiple brain injuries must be repatriated against the advice of her doctors, or face losing her travel insurance coverage.
Big Interview: Ernesto Suarez, Gigasure
Ernesto Suarez, CEO of Gigasure, outlines his plan to turn the recently launched travel MGA into the neo-bank of insurance.
Gigasure CEO outlines pet and PCW plans
Ernesto Suarez, CEO of Gigasure, has told Insurance Post of the firm’s plans to be listed on multiple price comparison websites by the end of the year, and launch a pet product.
Howden buys Storfield; Hiscox’s drone partnership; SiriusPoint's CUO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Ben Wooltorton, Cover-More Group
Ben Wooltorton, managing director of Zurich-owned Cover-More Group’s UK business, outlines the impact of the Consumer Duty and explains how he intends to increase the travel and speciality insurance provider’s number of partnerships.
Wheels in motion for changes that benefit insurance customers
Following her attendance at inaugural meeting of the government's motor insurance taskforce, Rocio Concha, director of policy and advocacy at Which, shares her hopes for robust action from the regulator to make the sector work better for customers.
Most complained about general insurers revealed
Admiral, Direct Line Group, Aviva, Esure and Axa were the most complained about general insurers in the first half of 2024, according to the latest Financial Ombudsman Service data.
Personalise insurance or fall foul of disruptors
The potential of personalisation and embedded insurance continue to excite the insurance market. David Worsfold explores what progress is being made and whether the innovation is being driven by mainstream players, disruptors or a combination of the two.