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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.
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…
60 Seconds With... HF’s Imogen Mitchell-Webb
Imogen Mitchell-Webb, head of sports at HF, on helping sports people return to competing, hating hoovering and spending her first wage packet in the village pub she worked in.
Q&A: Jonathan Hewett, Thatcham Research
Jonathan Hewett, CEO, Thatcham Research offers an insight into its shifting relationship with manufacturers; grappling with EV reparability; and emerging motor risks.
Top risk for UK businesses; WTW’s latest launch; Lloyds Bank’s head of insurance
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
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.
Cricket club bans sixes to cut out insurance claims costs
One of the UK’s oldest cricket clubs has banned players from hitting sixes, because of the damage it does to neighbouring properties, resulting in insurance claims costs.
Industries with the greatest underinsurance gaps revealed
Data Analysis: The push by insurers and brokers to prompt policyholders to review values appears to be having some effect in certain sectors but is failing to get through to others, data from Charterfields shows.
Skydiving fraudster’s £6.6m claim comes crashing down to earth
Keoghs and Hastings Direct have won the UK’s largest ever fundamental dishonesty case, saving the insurance provider £6.6m.
How insurers keep Formula 1 motors running
With Formula 1 in full throttle at Silverstone on Sunday (7 July), Edmund Tirbutt examines how insurers support the motorsports industry.
How is insurance stepping up amid election uncertainty?
With a record number of elections in 2024 set to introduce substantial unpredictability into an already volatile risk environment, Edmund Tirbutt examines how insurance is engendering resilience amidst unrelenting geoeconomic uncertainty.
NSM buys AllClear owner; Axa’s Uefa partnership; Brown & Brown’s UK retail CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Ageas’ sustainability workshop; Addept acquires Policywise; Co-op’s renters insurance
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Could rugby court clash shift the sport to self-insuring?
The outcome of a lawsuit launched by hundreds of rugby union players could have a far-reaching impact on the future of the sport. Tim Evershed looks at whether parallels can be drawn with similar actions in the US against governing bodies, such as the…
Aviva’s telematics app; Ardonagh buys Westfield; Swiss Re appoints group CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Aventum founder ‘extremely proud’ as son impresses on Formula One debut
18 year-old Ollie Bearman, the son of Aventum CEO and founder David Bearman, made his Formula One debut this weekend, finishing an impressive 7th after filling in for Ferrari teammate Carlos Sainz.
SimplyBusiness and Zurich partner; Howden buys Hencilla Canworth; Flood Re joins Biba
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Q&A: Stuart Kilpatrick, Burns & Wilcox
Stuart Kilpatrick, managing director of Burns & Wilcox UK, tells Insurance Post about the post-Biba conference pivot the business has undertaken, plans to create a specialist business in the UK, and how it "doesn't matter” where his staff work.
Lloyd’s DEI role model: David Flint
Last year, Lloyd’s commissioned Franklyn Rodgers to create six portraits of diverse role models and over the coming weeks we will feature them all with today’s spotlight on the ambassador of the Lloyd’s Football Club and CEO of Blue Mountain Capacity…
Diary of an Insurer: Konsileo’s Tim Rogers
Tim Rogers, client director of Konsileo, coaches Droitwich’s footballers, sorting out the club’s insurance, acts as a taxi for his teenaged son and helps his 86-year-old mother head off on holiday.
How Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash case has affected winter sports cover
With winter sports season in full swing, Aamina Zafar examines how the case against the A-list Hollywood actress highlighted the need for appropriate cover and training for claims handlers receiving calls from those who may have forgotten slope etiquette…