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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.
Aon completes acquisition; Arag's intergration; Davies' deputy CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Did insurance deserve to be snubbed by the NY Honours List?
News Editor’s View: Despite more than 1,200 names on the New Year’s Honours List 2025, leading lights from the world of insurance were hardly to be seen. Scott McGee asks if it is justified and what the sector's staff need to do to be celebrated.
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.
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.
Tributes pour in for flood risk expert killed days before Christmas
Tributes from colleagues and friends in the industry have started pouring in for a flood risk director who was tragically killed just days before Christmas.
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…
Claims and Legal Review of Year Review 2024
Looking back at 2024, claims, adjusting and legal firm chiefs share how their organisations handled claims arising from named winter storms, worked towards becoming carbon net zero, the impact of claims costs starting to stabilise and why some found…
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.
Environmental Audit Committee launches flood resilience inquiry
The Environmental Audit Select Committee has launched an inquiry to identify how to boost England’s flood resilience.
ABI fails to reach apprenticeship target
The Association of British Insurers will not reach its target of doubling the number of apprenticeships in insurance by 2025, according to diversity and inclusion data collected by the group.
Home insurance premium growth slows year-on-year
Home insurance premiums increased by 21% year-on-year between July and September this year, according to research from Compare the Market.
Ecclesiastical’s latest scheme; Allianz’s Uber launch; Evolution’s CEO
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
All Amanda Blanc wants for Christmas is Direct Line
News editor view: Now a deal between Aviva and Direct Line Group has reached "preliminary agreement", Scott McGee looks at what the deal could mean for the future of the businesses and the wider market.
Insurers share concerns after killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Adrian Jones, chief of staff for international and global markets at insurtech Acrisure, observed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death was shocking and deeply concerning given the accessibility of the insurance sector’s leaders.
Green Insurer CEO wants brokers to follow its path to carbon neutrality
Environmentally friendly motor broker The Green Insurer has achieved a carbon neutral certification through Carbon Neutral Britain.
Skills commission CEO warns of AI impact on underwriters
Underwriters and actuaries are set to be “hugely impacted” by artificial intelligence, according to Financial Services Skills Commission CEO Claire Tunley.
Big Interview: Ernesto Suarez, Gigasure
Ernesto Suarez, CEO of Gigasure, outlines his plan to turn the recently launched travel MGA into the neo-bank of insurance.
Property payouts hit £4bn; RSA's latest launch; Konsileo's £8m fundraise
Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.