Insurance Regulation

Compliance; How SaaS Can Help Speed Complaints Process, Boost Staff Morale

The Hastings Group, founded in 1996, is one of the UK’s leading general insurance providers, with over 2.7 million live customer policies and employing over 3500 employees across three UK offices in Bexhill-on-Sea, Leicester and […]

Legal

Legal Update: Interesting Judgement on Replacement Hire Car Case

An important judgment was handed down last week at Nottingham Crown Court involving which potentially has significant implications for the insurance industry. The case centres on a car accident in 2016 and the claimant had […]

Legal

CLS Launches Public Sector Procurement Insurance for Companies

CLS Risk Solutions, a leading MGA for legal indemnity and transactional property risk solutions, has launched its Public Procurement Insurance for the broker market.  The policy has been developed after a ten-fold rise in enquiries […]

News

Facial Recognition Test Case Could Open Up New Risk Analytics Data Streams

Today, the High Court has ruled in favour of the South Wales Police to allow the continued use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) – the controversial technology which enables mass crowd surveillance, in response to […]

Opinion

Insights: Five Ways to Make Your Insurance Company Work Smarter

This latest article by Richard Stewart, CEO and co-founder of productivity-boosting insurtech maker Untangl, looks at five things boosting productivity in insurance companies today. Which are you missing out on? Automation Robots are being deployed […]

InsureTech

Driverless Car Insurance: Liberty Teams Up With Edge Case Research

Insurance Edge believes that those insurers who fail to invest in driverless car technologies risk losing the chance to harvest vast swathes of data from the occupants of said driverless Jonny Cabs in the future. […]

Insurance claims

Coverbox Data Reveals Multi-Claim Fraud Attempt – £55,000 Scam, Denied

On the 4th March 2019, Coverbox received a claims report request from an insurer. The incident had taken place towards the end of last year in the Oldham area.  At first it was believed that the handler simply wanted […]

Technology

Tech: Big Name Insurers Can Outfox The Insurtech Disruptors

In this piece, Garry Larner, Regional Director for Financial Services UK& Ireland at OutSystems, takes the view that the big insurers can compete with the disruptive, new start-ups offering a range of app-based products. Interesting […]