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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 year.
ABI’s Skeet leaving UK insurance for Bermudan tax
Mervyn Skeet, director of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers, is leaving the trade body to become CEO of the Bermuda Corporate Income Tax Agency.
ABI’s Gurga urges regulators to slash red tape
Hannah Gurga, director general of the Association of British Insurers, has urged the government and regulators to grab Alexander the Great’s sword and slash through the Gordian knot of regulation.
Home insurers that reject half of claims named and shamed
Consumer watchdog Which? has named and shamed home insurers with a claims acceptance rate of less than 55%.
Top 50 Reinsurers of 2024 revealed
Munich Re and Swiss Re remain at the top of Insurance Post’s Top 50 Reinsurers 2024 list, despite Christopher Pennings, financial analyst at AM Best, observing the rankings have been shaken up by a shift in accounting requirements.
How to enable the renewable energy transition
Jack O’Sullivan, senior underwriter at Rokstone in the energy and power division, argues renewable energy will always attract capacity, but insurers, brokers, and developers need to act more collaboratively to ensure more quality, robust projects are…
Why insurers are taking a bird’s eye view of claims
View from the Top: Insurers and loss adjusters can be some of the first people on the ground following a customer loss, but increasingly they’re the first in the sky too, as James Nicholson, chief claims officer at Zurich, explains.
Blog: Vacant properties – don’t let the risks move in
With empty homes up 10% in five years and the proportion of high street retail premises left vacant hitting a one in seven all-time high, RiskSTOP’s David Reynolds reminds us of the key steps in managing unoccupied buildings.
ICEYE insurance head reveals plans for nat cat solutions
Stephen Lathrope, global head of insurance at space technology company ICEYE, has outlined the company’s plan to provide solutions targeted at a range of natural catastrophe perils.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Axa
Axa grabs the eight spot on Insurance Post’s Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Aviva
Aviva Insurance Limited is ranked number 1 and Aviva International Insurance Limited is ranked number 2 on the Top 100 UK Insurers 2024 list.
Top 100 UK Insurers 2024: Business lines
A ranking of the top 100 UK Insurers for different general insurance business lines, based on data from AM Best’s Financial Suite.
Q&A: Fiona Sperry, QBE
Fiona Sperry, QBE’s head of complex claims, talks through her team’s role, how the insurer is meeting challenges posed by the energy transition and the place of artificial intelligence in claims.
Kingfisher’s commercial acquisition; RSA’s D&O product; Zurich’s head of SME
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Spotlight: Why we need risk management for everyone, not just the 2%
For over 200 years, the insurance industry has understood the benefits of risk management in reducing and controlling exposure. But in a world of emerging and evolving risks, the traditional way of making improvements through site surveys creates a…
Insurance Museum seeks fresh financial backers
Reg Brown, retired Lloyd’s underwriter and chairman of the Insurance Museum, is hosting a drinks reception tonight (1 October) at The Association of British Insurers HQ in a bid to reinvigorate financial support for the history initiative.
Look to the skies to manage climate change risk
By leveraging advanced technologies like satellite data, Forbes McKenzie, founder and CEO of McKenzie Intelligence Services, argues insurers can better predict, manage and mitigate the impact of increasingly common frequency and severe natural disasters.
How insurers address evolving supply chain risks
How incidents like the attacks in the Red Sea, drought in the Panama Canal and Baltimore bridge collision have the potential to create cascading exposures for insurers is examined by Tim Evershed.
Zurich creates climate alliance after ditching NZIA
Zurich has created the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, 17 months after exiting the United Nations Net Zero Insurance Alliance.
Dagenham blaze highlights ongoing high-rise fire safety problems
After a fire tore through a multi-storey building in Dagenham, East London, insurers have observed new notifications regarding building fire safety defects continue to trickle in, and cladding problems highlighted by the Grenfell Tower blaze remain.
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.