Pet insurance
Ardonagh’s rebrand; Google Cloud’s expansion; Insure Your Paws’ product
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Big Interview: Alistair Hargreaves, Admiral
Alistair Hargreaves, UK insurance CEO at Admiral, speaks to Tom Luckham about the provider’s results, the integration of RSA’s home and pet books, and why the insurer is ignoring market noise to focus on its own game.
Admiral CEO outlines plan to become top five pet player
Admiral UK insurance CEO Alistair Hargreaves has revealed how the business will become a top five pet provider by the end of the year.
Video Q&A: George Robbins and Kelig Aujogue, Shift Technology
In the latest Insurance Post video we caught up with Shift Technology’s head of UK, Ireland and Nordics George Robbins, and director of data science UK Kelig Aujogue to discuss the issues insurers see with fraud in the health insurance space.
Policy Expert bosses outline plan to double GWP
Policy Expert CEO Steve Hardy has laid down a target to double the size of the business within five years and become a top five provider of pet insurance in the UK.
Covéa finally swings back to profit
Covéa Insurance has swung from an £87.3m loss in 2023 to posting a £32.9m profit for 2024.
ManyPets expects to post profit after £31.4m loss
ManyPets expects to post a profit for the last few months after making a £31.4m loss in the year to 31 March 2024.
Ripe to launch pet insurance product in 2025
Ripe plans to launch a pet insurance product later this year, according to CEO Alan Thomas.
What makes pet insurance customers happy revealed
Admiral and Agria have the greatest proportion of extremely or fairly satisfied pet insurance customers, according to the latest research by Fairer Finance.
UK pet insurance shifts from sales to process focus
August Von Sydow, chief commercial officer at pet claims automation insurtech Wisentic has said the UK pet insurance market has shifted from being sales-focused to process-focused due to increased adoption.
Pet insurance premiums stabilise in Q4
Pet insurance premiums stabilised in December 2024, following a year of fluctuating pricing trends, the latest Pearson Ham Group data has shown.
Which? argues insurers aren’t meeting Consumer Duty requirements
Which? is calling for the Financial Conduct Authority to crack down on bad practices from insurers, following research revealing the struggles people face when choosing insurance policies.
ManyPets confirms redundancies as co-founder exits
ManyPets has confirmed to Insurance Post it has made some compulsory redundancies as part of its transformation project.
Did insurance deserve to be snubbed by the NY Honours List?
News Editor’s View: Despite more than 1,200 names on the New Year’s Honours List 2025, leading lights from the world of insurance were hardly to be seen. Scott McGee asks if it is justified and what the sector's staff need to do to be celebrated.
Why Aviva and Direct Line mega merger is nothing to fear
Editor’s View: Working her way through centuries of issues of Insurance Post just as Direct Line’s shareholders accepted Aviva’s £3.7bn bid for the business proved a timely reminder for Emma Ann Hughes of the pros and cons of mega mergers.
Was 2024 the ‘Year of Reality Check’ for insurtechs?
Content Director's View: With territorial withdrawals and scaling back on products, Jonathan Swift asks whether 2024 represented the year the UK insurtech space got a reality check; and mulls whether a second Summer of Insurtech could soon be around the…
Big Interview: Steve Hardy, Policy Expert
Steve Hardy, CEO of Policy Expert, talks to Tom Luckham about the firm’s plans for expansion, addresses claims concerns, and reveals what American musician Iggy Pop is really like.
Policy Expert gets capacity for pet push
Policy Expert has announced Bridgehaven will provide capacity for the business alongside Accredited, allowing the personal lines insurer to finally launch pet cover.
Big Interview: Ernesto Suarez, Gigasure
Ernesto Suarez, CEO of Gigasure, outlines his plan to turn the recently launched travel MGA into the neo-bank of insurance.
ManyPets exits US market
ManyPets has exited the US market to focus on the UK, after exiting the Swedish market last year.
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.