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Sabre to launch motorcycle brand in Q1 2025
Sabre has confirmed in a market statement that it intends to launch an online-only motorcycle insurance brand in Q1 2025.
Zero GI insolvencies brings FSCS compensation down for 2022/23
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has reported that for the year ending 31 March 2023, it paid £163m in compensation for general insurance providers, £23m less than the year before.
Aviva reports 13% spike in fraud; Accredited hails £2bn Policy Expert deal; Urban Jungle to recruit 100; and PRA warns insurers of ‘significant headwinds’ over climate change
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Capgemini: only 8% of insurers 'Resilience Champions'; Allianz mulls Home & Legacy disposal; CII reports £4.4m deficit; and Questgates buys
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Intelligence: Opening the throttle on motorbike insurance
The motorbike insurance market has been a hive of activity in the last few years in what has previously been a quiet and steady sector for the last 20 years. Martin Friel investigates what this means for the biker customer and if more entrants are on the…
Analysis: Unstable firms are falling off the Rock
Post looks at a series of insurer failures in Gibraltar – and asks what the future will look like for existing and new entrants.
MCE CEO Edwards pledges legal action against Gibraltar regulator
MCE Insurance CEO Julian Edwards has pledged legal action against the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission following the appointment of administrators at MCE’s Gibraltar-based insurer.
Gibraltar regulator denies accusations made against it by MCE
The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission has denied accusations made against it by MCE Insurance earlier this week in the wake of MCE’s Gibraltar-based insurer being put into administration.
MCE claims recovery proposals for Gibraltar insurer were declined by regulator
MCE Insurance has alleged that it tabled proposals to “immediately meet any shortfall” in the capital requirements of its Gibraltar-based insurer but these were declined by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission ahead of the provider's collapse last…
WH Smith to launch ‘digital first’ insurance lines; WTW lines up first acquisition after Aon merger collapse; Converys Europe strikes fourth deal and Higos buys in Cornwall
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
MCE Insurance appoints claims and finance directors
Motorbike specialist MCE Insurance has appointed Paul Ormiston as claims director and Leonard Labinjo as finance director.
Intelligence: Performance reviews
A few years ago Net Promoter Scores were a buzzword in insurance feedback. However, after a year where the sector has suffered repeatedly from bad headlines over business interruption and Covid-19 payouts, Post asks if firms still want to hear about how…
This week in Post: Claims, costs and closures
This week I was lucky enough to climb on the top of a lift with one of Allianz’s engineer surveyors and take a trip up and down a building.
MCE to pull out of Ireland following ‘incredibly disappointing’ loss of passporting
MCE Insurance will cease writing business in the Republic of Ireland from next year as a result of a loss of passporting from Brexit.
Top 50 Broker Listing 2016 - 21 to 30
Post details the firms listed 21 to 30 including headquarters, staff numbers and acquisitions
MCE Insurance
Rank: 27
MCE Insurance expands office space
Motor insurance broker MCE Insurance is taking on additional premises to house its growing sales team.
MCE appoints IT boss
MCE Insurance has hired Richard Impett as IT manager at its Northamptonshire-based headquarters.
Market moves: Setting the trend
Insurer MMA was the main recruiter this week, with the firm naming five new staff across its regional office network. The moves set the trend among fellow underwriters, with high-profile appointments at Groupama, DAS and for Markel’s fledging operation…
MCE targets entrepreneurs
Budding insurance entrepreneurs, with a proven track record in sales, will be offered the chance to establish their own business as part of a new scheme created by biker broker MCE.
MCE Enterprise names MD
Nick Elliman has been appointed as managing director of personal lines network MCE Enterprise.