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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.
QuestGates buys Brownsword; Woodgate & Clark integration; Vitality’s health CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox CEO Hussain reveals plan to rollout AI underwriting
Aki Hussain, CEO of Hiscox Group, has said to thrive in 2025 insurers should “think the unthinkable” about their business models and revealed his plans to roll-out artificial intelligence augmented underwriting.
Q&A: Dan Bratshpis, Inshur
Dan Bratships, CEO and co-founder of Inshur discusses the insurtech’s latest funding round, growth plans and the lessons he has learnt while building the company.
Extent of hollowing out of travel insurance uncovered
Almost nine out of 10 (88%) of travel insurance products no longer provide cover for scheduled airline failure, data from Defaqto has revealed..
Eight key takeaways from Post’s motor insurance profitability roundtable
At the end of 2024, Insurance Post in association with CRIF, held a roundtable that posed the question: How can motor insurers make the return to profitability stick? Jonathan Swift summarises the main takeaways.
Half of businesses have reported incidents with lithium batteries
A survey conducted by Aviva has revealed the proportion of firms that have experienced incidents involving devices that contain lithium-ion batteries.
Q&A: Tara Parchment, Brit Private Clients
Tara Parchment, head of private clients at Brit, speaks to Insurance Post about its four years in operation, how Covid disrupted its launch, and how the mass exits in the high net worth space has affected the market.
Four biggest challenges facing insurers in 2025 revealed
To get you ready for the next 12 months, Insurance Post uncovers four things you need to know about what 2025 holds in store for the industry, according to analysts.
Could the Aviva-DLG deal spark a personal lines M&A boom in 2025?
With Aviva and Direct Line Group’s £3.7bn merger looking like a done-deal, Insurance Post ponders what rivals could be thinking. Could 2025 be the year of a personal lines M&A boom?
Nexus acquires Arma; Alps' MD Volante's executive chairman
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
HF’s investment; Ceta x MoneySuperMarket; Pen Underwriting’s COO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
MGAs Review of the Year 2025
An MGA chief would like Sir Bob Geldof to teach the industry a thing or two about social responsibility in 2025, and leaders are confident that while the hard market was punishing for a time in 2024, next year the sector is well-positioned to lead…
CMA writes to Somerset Bridge and DLG over NCB breaches
The Competition and Markets Authority has written to Somerset Bridge and Direct Line Group separately over a series of breaches regarding no claims bonuses.
Making sure Father Christmas is covered
Insurance Post editor Emma Ann Hughes has made a list of Santa Claus’s risks and got the insurance industry’s leading lights to check it twice in order to recommend products plus services for the man tasked with delivering a holly, jolly Christmas this…
Optalitix and PWC team up; Ki goes standalone; Davies’s reshuffle
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Hiscox’s Wrigglesworth on how to evolve an insurer’s tech estate
View from the Top: Ian Wrigglesworth, chief technology officer at Hiscox UK, considers the challenge of designing a tech strategy in a fast-changing world.
AA raises concerns about comprehensive motor cover
The AA has called for comprehensive motor insurance policies that do not include windscreen cover to be renamed in order to avoid complaints from consumers that policies fall short of their expectations.
How insurers are working to keep esports competitive and covered
With 2025 expected to be the best year in video games sales to date thanks to GTA 6, a potential PS5, Xbox mid-gen refreshes, plus the first full year of sales for Switch 2. Tom Luckham examines how the insurance industry is addressing the complicated…
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.
How Covid-19 transformed commercial lines insurance
How the commercial lines insurance market has been shaken up in the last decade by mergers, acquisitions and Covid-19 is examined by Angela Pilley, insight consultant for general insurance at Defaqto.