Legal expenses
Review of the Year 2022: Claims and Legal (part two)
Senior claims figures look back on 2022 and reflect on what 2023 might bring.
Admiral defeats fundamentally dishonest fraudster; Ardonagh Academy launched; start-up Coral aims to disrupt LEI sector; and Pool Re to cut prices
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Tower Brook acquires Premium Credit; ABI reports motor premiums have fallen 5% in Q1; Aston Lark buys UK Global; and Seventeen snaps up broker
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Analysis: Unstable firms are falling off the Rock
Post looks at a series of insurer failures in Gibraltar – and asks what the future will look like for existing and new entrants.
Blog: The curious incident of the dog and the bite crime
Rebecca Conway, chief legal officer at Arc Legal Assistance, reflects on the increase of pets in households in the UK during lockdown, and what route policyholders can pursue if they are bitten by a dog that has not been trained or socialised enough.
Data analysis: FOS insurance backlog tops 9000 cases
Freedom of information requests by Post and sister title Insurance Age have laid bare the scale of insurance case delays at the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Aviva in Zego tie-up; Ecclesiastical Insurance Group renamed Benefact; Mosaic to acquire Sirius Point Lloyd's arm; and Sedgwick buys UKA247
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Marsh/Volante launch shareholder activism product; insurance sector launches flood directory; GRP buys Hamilton Fraser; Liberty rolls out real-time flood warning solution
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Das compensation in ex-CEO fraud case lowered as insurer’s 'lack of candour' criticised
Das is now set to receive £5.96m rather than £8.28m in compensation from its fraud case against three former senior employees.
Podcast: Reflections on the initial OIC portal data
In the first of a two-part podcast series Insurance Post reflects on the initial Official Injury Claim data covering the first three-month period.
Das appoints Tony Coram as UK CEO
Das UK has appointed Tony Coram as CEO replacing Andrew Burke who is stepping down at the end of the year.
Arc Legal and LIM replace Das on Lloyds Banking Group’s home insurance LEI
Exclusive: Arc Legal Assistance and sister company Legal Insurance Management have won the race to provide family legal protection cover for Lloyds Banking Group’s home insurance customers under the Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands, an…
Prince of Wales launches sustainable insurance task force; Aviva joins forces with WWF; Ford links up with By Miles; and LV reveals PI panel
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
LPG slams HDI claim as 'abuse' of court process
Legal Protection Group has hit back with its defence document in the ongoing legal dispute with HDI Global Specialty, denying all the accusations as it branded the litigation unnecessary and serving no purpose other than as an attempt to strengthen HDI’s…
Chubb and Marsh unveil Covid-19 vaccination solution; insurtech investment hits quarterly high; motor/home premiums fall; and Aviva offers cover to new customers affected by cladding crisis
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
Blog: Legal expenses insurance in a post-reform world
Handl Group chief commercial officer Chris Chatterton considers the effect of whiplash reforms on legal expenses insurance.
Alps CEO Lee Riley passes away
Auto Legal Protection Services CEO Lee Riley has passed away after a battle with cancer, the business has updated.
HDI Global Specialty files legal case against Arron Banks' Legal Protection Group
HDI Global Specialty has filed a case at the High Court seeking a declaration from Legal Protection Group that their run-off agreement has ended.
Amazon, Apple and Google have opened up the 'mass market' for smart home insurance, claims start-up Hiro
The growth in big tech smart home solutions means it is a lot easier to sell household insurance products that reward adoption than ever before, according to the Neos alumnae behind newly launched insurtech Hiro.
For the record: Chubb bids $23bn for rival; Amazon to sell SME insurance; RAC launches pay per mile cover and London team swaps AFL for SRG
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
Insurance lives in the Covid era – 12 months on from the first National Lockdown: Part Three
On the 23 March 2020 as Covid-19 infection rates soared Prime Minster Boris Johnson told us to “stay at home” triggering the first National Lockdown. One year on Post spoke to a host of insurance workers - the contact centre managers and the claims…
Fully Comp 14: First reactions to the MoJ whiplash portal protocol and practice direction
For the fourteenth episode of Post’s video series Fully Comp we gathered together a group of experts to discuss the highly anticipated publication of the rules, tarriffs, pre-action protocol and practice direction linked with the whiplash portal.
Fully Comp episode 9: Not so Home Alone – how do you replicate the company Xmas party on Zoom?
Welcome to episode nine of Fully Comp, Post’s video series tackling some of the biggest issues in insurance.
Arag appoints Simon Barrett CFO as UK co-founder retires
Arag has appointed Simon Barrett as chief financial officer in preparation for the retirement of longstanding CFO Bob Moreton next year.