News

Covid Deaths Now a Small Fraction of Overall Mortality Rates

Some good news on the Covid front; During the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing frequent UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. Today’s updates cover week 26 of 2021 (26 June […]

Household Insurance

Terrafirma Highlights Stress Testing on Property Cover

Ground risk specialist, Terrafirma, warns that there is just one month to go until the Bank of England launches regulatory climate stress testing.  This will initially affect all the largest insurers, banks and building societies […]

News

Work In Car Insurance? You Need to Know These Buyer Stats

A spike in demand across the north of Britain has seen Manchester, Sheffield and Glasgow overtake London as hotspots for internet car buying, the online car supermarket BuyaCar.co.uk has revealed. While historically demand has most […]

Insurance claims

Public Sector: Zurich Publishes Schools Fire risk Survey

A new study from Zurich Municipal reveals 480 primary and secondary schools endured fires in 2019, a staggering 40 incidents every month.  As a result, almost 20,000  school children have had their education impacted or […]

News

MIB Announces UK-Wide Campaign on Uninsured Driving

The problem of uninsured drivers continues to grow in the UK. Around 90,000 drivers were caught in 2019 driving with no valid cover, with London, the West Midlands and West Yorkshire showing the highest percentage […]

UK Insurance Trends

Allianz Announces Partnership With England Rugby

Allianz Insurance and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) have today announced a new agreement in which Allianz will become the Official Insurance Partner of England Rugby, and partner to the men’s and women’s England rugby […]

Investment

L&G Makes Key Investment in Affordable Housing Project

Legal & General continue to invest in affordable housing. Here’s the latest; LGIM Real Assets (Legal & General) has provided £100 million in deferred long-term financing to Bromford Housing Group (Bromford), the largest provider of […]