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Pace of general insurers’ race to net zero revealed
As the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as Cop 29, begins in Baku, Azerbaijan, Insurance Post’s Emma Ann Hughes analyses the pace of providers racing to become net zero heroes.
How generative AI is everything, everywhere in insurance all at once
How insurers have been able to swiftly pilot generative artificial intelligence, prove the value of embracing this technology and roll it out across the wider business is examined by Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes.
Zurich prioritises internal AI development over partnerships
Zurich is focusing on in-house expertise rather than external partnerships for artificial intelligence development, according to data science lead Jonathan Davies.
How generative AI can catapult insurance into the future
Graeme Howard, non-executive director at esynergy, explains how insurance companies that have traditionally been on the back foot can now surge ahead of technology-embracing banks by embracing generative artificial intelligence.
iCan founder launches broker; Chaucer enters weather market; RSA's property director
Thursday Round-Up: As tomorrow is Good Friday, Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week, a day early.
Lithium batteries causing fire-related home claims to surge
Prestige Underwriting has called for better collaboration between e-bike manufacturers and insurers, after the average cost of fire-related home insurance claims has quadrupled since 2007, to more than £24,000.
How women are smashing insurance’s glass ceilings
Ahead of International Women’s Day (8 March), Insurance Post Editor Emma Ann Hughes examines how glass ceilings in insurance are being smashed and whether presenteeism rearing its ugly head could stunt further female progress in the industry.
Could COP 28 leave insurers with more stranded assets?
As COP 28 kicks off on 30 November, Emma Ann Hughes examines how the race to net zero is creating stranded assets, affecting insureds and insurers.
How insurers dodged a bullet over storm Ciarán
Tegwen Gabb, senior weather and climate analyst at Eurotempest, reveals how close the UK insurance industry came to sustaining one of its largest insured losses of all time from storm Ciarán.
CII’s Suzi Rackley asks if it’s enough to Build Back Better
Trade Voice: Suzi Rackley, client director at Howden Private Clients and member of the Chartered Institute of Insurers’ broking board, argues the industry needs to push beyond Build Back Better to ensure the UK is flood-ready by 2039.
Four ways insurers can use AI to defeat disruptor rivals
As AI Week draws to a close, Leon Gauhman, co-founder of digital product consultancy Elsewhen, explains how large language models could allow traditional carriers to leapfrog over nimbler insurtech competitors.
Using algorithms to underwrite commercial and specialty market risks
Analysis: Harry Curtis examines the applications of algorithmic underwriting in commercial and specialty insurance, what role the approach leaves for human underwriters, and what challenges it presents.
Howden’s climate practice, Ecclesiastical and Iprism partner and WTW’s claims chief
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aviva completes nine-month commercial digital transformation
Aviva’s Global Corporate & Specialty team has revealed how it has been able to develop 20 commercial lines pricing models in just nine months, cutting build time by 75%, after utilising Hyperexponential’s pricing decision intelligence platform, HX Renew.
Cyber market edges towards systemic risk solutions
Participants in the quickly growing cyber insurance market are pushing for commonly held definitions of catastrophic or systemic events.
Collaboration needed on climate resilience as UK must ‘get used to’ floods
Collaboration is the key to improving climate resilience, according to a panel of experts at the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Shaping the Future of Insurance conference.
24 firms battle it out on 11th Lloyd’s Lab pitch day
The Lloyd's Lab programme is returning for its eleventh cohort, seeking “fresh ideas” to challenge how the insurance sector operates and help the Lloyd’s market better serve its customers.
Oliver Wyman to rapidly build 'double-digit headcount' UK actuarial practice
Oliver Wyman expects to “quickly recruit a team with a "double-digit headcount” to its UK actuarial practice, the Marsh McLennan management consultancy has told Insurance Post.
Why insurers need to up the ante on climate change
Caroline Elliott-Grey, product manager for UK and Ireland for LexisNexis Risk Solutions, says insurance providers should face up to the winds of climate change and use predictive modelling to mitigate risks.
Intangic boss calls MGAs the R&D of cyber insurance
The managing general agent model allows the insurance industry to more easily draw on cybersecurity expertise from outside the sector, according to Intangic CEO Ryan Dodd.
Diary of an Insurer: K2 International’s Zach Cohen
Zach Cohen, catastrophe modeller at K2 International, troubleshoots code, deals with muddy paw prints and helps underwriters grasp the implications of earthquakes.