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Jensten and Hiscox partner; Aston Lark buys HNW book; Axa XL appoints reinsurance CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Arc Legal considers expansion into new lines
Arc Legal bosses reveal plans to provide total ancillary insurance cover as celebrates 20 years of operation.
Renters Bill gives bad tenants more power to play system
Richard Finan, director of strategic development for legal expenses and rent guarantee insurer Arc Legal Group, struggled to see many positives when it came to the newly published Renters (Reform) Bill.
Ardonagh in double swoop; UK General rebrands; SRG launches in Europe
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments, and strategic moves of the week.
Insuring the new working world
Sam Barrett explores how the insurance industry is adapting employers’ liability insurance to reflect the risks associated with new ways of working post-Covid.
Justice minister refuses to commit to regular fixed recoverable costs reviews
Justice minister Lord Bellamy has refused to commit to regularly updating new or existing fixed recoverable costs (FRCs) for inflation, but confirmed an extension to FRC will be going ahead in October.
Review of the Year 2022: Claims and Legal (part two)
Senior claims figures look back on 2022 and reflect on what 2023 might bring.
Admiral defeats fundamentally dishonest fraudster; Ardonagh Academy launched; start-up Coral aims to disrupt LEI sector; and Pool Re to cut prices
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Tower Brook acquires Premium Credit; ABI reports motor premiums have fallen 5% in Q1; Aston Lark buys UK Global; and Seventeen snaps up broker
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
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.
Blog: The curious incident of the dog and the bite crime
Rebecca Conway, chief legal officer at Arc Legal Assistance, reflects on the increase of pets in households in the UK during lockdown, and what route policyholders can pursue if they are bitten by a dog that has not been trained or socialised enough.
Data analysis: FOS insurance backlog tops 9000 cases
Freedom of information requests by Post and sister title Insurance Age have laid bare the scale of insurance case delays at the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Aviva in Zego tie-up; Ecclesiastical Insurance Group renamed Benefact; Mosaic to acquire Sirius Point Lloyd's arm; and Sedgwick buys UKA247
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Marsh/Volante launch shareholder activism product; insurance sector launches flood directory; GRP buys Hamilton Fraser; Liberty rolls out real-time flood warning solution
For the record: Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Das compensation in ex-CEO fraud case lowered as insurer’s 'lack of candour' criticised
Das is now set to receive £5.96m rather than £8.28m in compensation from its fraud case against three former senior employees.
Podcast: Reflections on the initial OIC portal data
In the first of a two-part podcast series Insurance Post reflects on the initial Official Injury Claim data covering the first three-month period.
Das appoints Tony Coram as UK CEO
Das UK has appointed Tony Coram as CEO replacing Andrew Burke who is stepping down at the end of the year.
Arc Legal and LIM replace Das on Lloyds Banking Group’s home insurance LEI
Exclusive: Arc Legal Assistance and sister company Legal Insurance Management have won the race to provide family legal protection cover for Lloyds Banking Group’s home insurance customers under the Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland brands, an…
Prince of Wales launches sustainable insurance task force; Aviva joins forces with WWF; Ford links up with By Miles; and LV reveals PI panel
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
LPG slams HDI claim as 'abuse' of court process
Legal Protection Group has hit back with its defence document in the ongoing legal dispute with HDI Global Specialty, denying all the accusations as it branded the litigation unnecessary and serving no purpose other than as an attempt to strengthen HDI’s…
Chubb and Marsh unveil Covid-19 vaccination solution; insurtech investment hits quarterly high; motor/home premiums fall; and Aviva offers cover to new customers affected by cladding crisis
Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week not covered elsewhere on www.postonline.co.uk
Blog: Legal expenses insurance in a post-reform world
Handl Group chief commercial officer Chris Chatterton considers the effect of whiplash reforms on legal expenses insurance.
Alps CEO Lee Riley passes away
Auto Legal Protection Services CEO Lee Riley has passed away after a battle with cancer, the business has updated.
HDI Global Specialty files legal case against Arron Banks' Legal Protection Group
HDI Global Specialty has filed a case at the High Court seeking a declaration from Legal Protection Group that their run-off agreement has ended.