Opinion

Insurance Needs More Working Class People at The Top

Straight from the Ed’s keyboard; The recent announcement by accountancy firm KPMG highlights a similar problem across financial services, including insurance. KPMG say they want to recruit far more people with working class backgrounds than […]

News

Vertafore Survey Offers an Insurance Industry Snapshot

A new report by Vertafore on the state of the independent insurance channel workforce brings into sharp relief how the pandemic changed the nature of work in the industry, what insurance professionals value about their work and […]

Opinion

Opinion: Discrimination In The Insurance Sector Has To End

Insurers decide prices based on people’s age, marital status and postcode. People wouldn’t accept this kind of discrimination in any other part of their lives, says Jimmy Williams of Urban Jungle Imagine you were about to […]

Insurance Regulation

Forrester Predicts Uncertainty as Brexit Shambles Continues

Here are some extracts from the Forrester report on EU economy developments in 2020, including the tricky matters of regulatory issues, data protection rules and Brexit. Enjoy all you Compliance officers! If Europe in 2019 […]

HR & Employment

Male, Pale & Stale? Nope, Coverys MGA Appoints Caitlin Crist as Head of Claims

Coverys Managing Agency Limited, the Lloyd’s managing agent of Syndicates 1975, 1991, 3330 and 1110, today announced the appointment Caitlin Crist to the newly created role of Head of Claims of Coverys Syndicate 1975. She […]

HR & Employment

Employee Wellbeing: Healix White Paper on Gender Dysphoria Published

In June 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that gender dysphoria would be classed as a sexual health condition, rather than a mental health disorder.  Gender incongruence is defined as the mismatch an individual […]

HR & Employment

Mercer Launches Trans Benefits as Part of Employee Healthcare Cover

Mercer, a global consulting leader in advancing health, wealth and career, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), has announced that it now offers Trans benefits, for the treatment of Gender […]