Liability
Aviva’s travel tool; Questgates acquires firm; Aon’s space leader
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurer: Allianz Trade’s Vikshay Vijai
Vikshay Vijai, fraud insurance manager for UK & Ireland at Allianz Trade, has a busy pipeline, leads a broker workshop and can’t believe we’re mentioning Christmas already.
Aviva’s Rokstone partnership; EXL’s language model; Aon’s broking promotion
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Diary of an Insurer: Markel’s Chris O’Shea
Chris O’Shea, managing director of claims international at Markel, looks to expand the wholesale and international claims function, unpicks a high-profile equine claim, and gets Dad duties done.
Pen’s cyber revamp; Chubb’s construction practice; Unum CEO joins ABI board
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: AIG
AIG holds steady in fifth place on Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers List in 2024.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: RSA
RSA is in fourth place on the Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list.
Unexpected insurance fallout of the prison crisis
Andrew Steel, partner and police defence lawyer at national law firm Weightmans, and member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers’ Public Sector & Blue Light Sector Focus Team, explores the insurance implications of Operation Early Dawn amid the UK’s prison…
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Business lines
A ranking of the top 100 UK Insurers for different general insurance business lines, based on data from AM Best’s Financial Suite.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Drastic turnaround in profitability
Major players pulling out or significantly scaling back their personal lines propositions, while others saw commercial lines profits soar, has significantly shaken up Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers rankings in 2024, according to Ben Diaz-Clegg,…
Lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage
Laura Miller examines how the CrowdStrike outage impacted various insurances, including property, business interruption, professional liability, D&O and product liability insurances.
Kingfisher’s commercial acquisition; RSA’s D&O product; Zurich’s head of SME
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Sompo’s marine proposition; Lockton’s charity walk; Allianz Partner’s travel director
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Insurance sector ready to shake off ‘elitist’ tag over fraud data-sharing
The insurance industry could be less elitist around data and intelligence sharing to help combat fraud, according to leading market practitioners.
Big Interview: Mandy Hunt, Clear
Mandy Hunt, managing director of The Clear Group’s MGA business, looks to develop underwriting talent, shares growth plans and talks about the importance of sharing personal stories.
Terrorism legislation ‘likely’ to result in increased D&O claims
Legislation tabled in parliament last week is “likely” to result in more directors’ and officers’ claims and renewed demand for public liability cover, law firm DAC Beachcroft has warned.
Beazley aims at US levels of cyber uptake in hunt for UK growth
Beazley is targeting US levels of cyber insurance adoption in the UK, as it looks to grow its regional business, UK and Ireland country manager Sam Franks has said.
Hiscox’s employee security cover; Markel adds legal expenses; Outbacker’s app
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Kim Harrison, Apil
Kim Harrison, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, discusses her ambitions for her presidency, diversity in the industry and the justice gap in injury claims.
Big Interview: David McMillan, Esure
David McMillan, CEO of Esure, on why he isn't frightened to shed volume in order to protect profitability, the pain points of the provider's digital transformation plus how customer expectations are now shaped by Uber's activity rather than Aviva's…
Ardonagh buys broker; Compass offers beach hut cover; Minster Law’s hire
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
How ‘Baby Reindeer’ and streaming services are affecting insurance
As the way we consume media changes, Scott McGee considers how the furore over Baby Reindeer, and changing nature of the content we watch has had an impact on insurance.
Action to avoid prison overcrowding to impact insurance claims
Operation Early Dawn, which will allow prisoners to be held in police cells rather than prison accommodation, may create several problems for insurers from a claims and practical perspective, a legal expert has warned.
Allianz UK spending £400m on change by end of 2025
Colm Holmes, CEO of Allianz Holdings has said the company is spending £200m this year and the same amount again next year on change within the UK business.