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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.
Diary of an Insurer: HDI Embedded’s Nelson Castellanos
Nelson Castellanos, chief partnerships officer for international at HDI Embedded, discusses factoring in different country’s needs to product development, explores embedded insurance options for the European telecommunications industry and loves the fact…
Von Mesterhazy appointed Allianz MD for specialty
Isabella Von Mesterhazy has been appointed managing director for Allianz UK’s specialty business, effective 1 December 2024
Greenwashing risks and the path to real progress
As the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, begins Damisola Sulaiman explores the unique greenwashing risks the insurance industry faces, how those risks can be mitigated and the challenges faced in proving sustainability…
Diary of an Insurer: NBS Underwriting’s Paul Bennett
The working week of Paul Bennett, underwriting director of NBS Underwriting, combines strategic meetings, underwriting decisions, and broker interactions with adding Hadron to his organisation's panel of insurers.
Bspoke’s Hood partnership; CFC’s European expansion; Pool Re’s head of underwriting
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.
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.
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.
How to axe insurance’s Old Boys’ Club
Analysis: Damisola Sulaiman examines the insurance industry’s efforts to dismantle its Old Boys’ Club culture, highlighting initiatives to promote diversity in recruitment, while exploring the challenges that remain in creating a truly inclusive…
Big Interview: Mark Bailie, Compare the Market
Mark Bailie, CEO of BGL Group, the owner of Compare the Market, sits down with Scott McGee to talk about the 'bad bank' at RBS, achieving ‘perfect’ price and product comparison, and his plans for the business moving forward.
Diary of an Insurer: QBE’s David Round
David Round, head of trading at Birmingham at QBE Europe, gets more active, explores future opportunities and threats to the renewal portfolio and even manages to keep score at his son’s cricket match.
How to meet the insurance needs of Gen Z
How insurers can grab the attention of Generation Z is the topic of the latest Insurance Post Top Tips video featuring Julian Hucks, founder and managing director of Starpeak.
Aviva’s Storah reveals what to expect next from the provider
Aviva UK&I general insurance CEO Jason Storah, along with his chief financial officer Stephen Pond, share what lines they expect to grow the most in the latter half of 2024 and outline their approach to pricing as inflation heads closer to 2%.
Gallagher’s King on securing talent pools
View from the Top: Wendy King, managing director of talent acquisition at Gallagher, outlines what insurers and brokers need to do to secure their talent pools.
What insurers should know about the FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule
Alexandra Nurse, a partner at Kennedys, explains how the Financial Conduct Authority’s new anti-greenwashing rule will, in the long term, mitigate the risk of claims brought in the insurance sector so long as providers review their communications.
Wedding insurance after Covid cancelled nuptials
After couples were forced to cancel their nuptials due to Covid-19 restrictions, Tim Evershed examines how wedding insurers coped with a barrage of claims and the make-up of the market in 2024.
Diary of an Insurance PR: Omnia Partners’ Adrian Beeby
Adrian Beeby, director of Omnia Partners, is awoken by his dog, keen to maintain muscle mass, shapes a podcast, ensures a client can make the most of Linkedin and writes about geopolitical volatility.
Tackling the growing issue of fake insurance adverts
As a growing number of road traffic accident victims are falling foul of scammers pretending to be insurers, Fiona Nicolson explores what is being done to stop companies advertising false contact numbers on search engines to trick customers into filing…
Allianz’s PL motor product; Voyager is acquired; BMS’ growth officer
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Cuvva CEO on achieving profitability in a turbulent insurtech space
In its 2023 annual report, the car sharing insurtech revealed it was able to go from a £6m loss in 2022 to £3.8m adjusted profit in 2023.