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Broker Review of the Year 2024
Brokers were pleased with M&A activity in 2024 but ticked off by disproportionate regulation, capacity exiting the market and artificial intelligence failing to live up to expectations.
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…
Consumers want Amazon and Tesla embedded insurance products
Four out of 10 consumers would be comfortable with the idea of buying insurance from companies such as Ikea, Amazon, or Tesla when making purchases from those brands, according to Guidewire’s Insurance Consumer Survey 2024.
Movers and shakers who made Insurance Post’s Power List 2024 revealed
This year’s Insurance Post Power List reflects how claims inflation combined with the Consumer Duty caused some providers to shift their focus and disruptors found it is easier to send a rocket into space than enter the UK insurance market.
What it takes to be a Power List player in 2024
Insurance Post’s Power List reveals today’s leading lights in the industry, the demise of big name digital disruptors plus who has shaken up the market in the last 12 months.
Could Jaguar Land Rover issues derail OEM insurance ambitions?
Following customer concerns over Jaguar Land Rover’s embedded scheme, Tom Luckham contemplates whether the original equipment manufacturer-led car insurance revolution is still a distant dream?
Most-read insurance stories in 2023 revealed
Like Cher, Insurance Post is turning back time to remember the industry Consumer Duty’s efforts, business interruption cases continuing to rumble on, developments at Direct Line, RSA’s personal lines exit, plus the other major insurance events of the…
Insurtech Review of the Year 2023
2023 will be remembered as the year the insurtech funding bubble burst but looking ahead to 2024 players in this part of the market expect providers to realise it is easier to buy systems than build them.
Has Elon Musk been put off launching Tesla Insurance UK?
News Editor's View: With electric vehicle claims costs, and therefore premiums skyrocketing, some insurers are refusing to insure certain Tesla models. Scott McGee considers whether Elon Musk is set to disappoint consumers by ditching plans for Tesla's…
Three technological leaps that could destroy insurers
Artificial intelligence, genetic scissors, and brain-machine interface were identified by CFC as the top emerging technology trends insurers insurers need to prepare for if they want to be Netflix rather than Blockbuster.
Axa XL’s carbon emissions product; Defaqto’s updated Matrix software; Flock appoints CFO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Elon Musk joins the AI party
Elon Musk has announced the formation of xAI, his long-anticipated artificial intelligence startup designed to compete with Open AI’s Chat GPT, Google’s Bard, and other similar platforms.
Experts say AI has potential to ‘unlock’ legacy systems
Artificial intelligence could finally solve longstanding industry legacy systems issues and insurers who don’t get on board will be missing out, experts claim.
Movers and shakers who made Insurance Post’s Power List revealed
This year’s Insurance Post Power List provides a blueprint of what you need to do to achieve and succeed in today’s world.