UK Insurance Trends

Sensors Can Help Insurers Manage Commercial/Social Housing

Smart building tech is one of the big growth areas for insurers in the 2020s. More co-living, more mixed use Commercial/Residential buildings and use of tech like CCTV, camera doorbells, noise, temperature and humidity sensors […]

News

IAG Takes a Slice of Internet of Things Specialist, Myriota

IAG, Australia’s largest general insurer, has invested in Myriota, a global pioneer in low-cost and low-power satellite connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), to explore how IoT devices can help insurance customers manage risk […]

News

Who Wants To Add a Named Driver For 10 Trips A Year? Seriously

Cuvva, the flexible insurance provider, is drawing attention to the pressure placed on the UK’s almost two million university students, by restrictions around planned journeys home for the Christmas vacation. Ongoing advice against non-essential public […]

News

Ecclesiastical Extends Temporary Covid Cover Arrangements

Ecclesiastical has again extended its temporary cover enhancements to support customers during the second lockdown. The specialist insurer originally introduced a series of temporary cover enhancements in April in response to the first UK-wide lockdown […]

News

Corona; AG Leads The Way with 2000 Euro Payout to Struggling Businesses

AG Insurance has announced some extra help for its policyholders during the Corona crisis, here are some key points from their press release. In order to compensate for the compulsory closure of their business, many […]

Underwriting transformation

Fleet News: Jackson Lee Launches Gap Product with Replacement Vehicles

 Jackson Lee Underwriting has launched the market’s first Fleet GAP policy with a built-in temporary replacement vehicle solution. In a total loss situation, where there’s no recoverable asset, fleet motor policies don’t provide temporary replacement vehicles […]

Technology

Allianz Offers a Future Vision of Home Life in 2040. Frankly, It’s Scary.

By the year 2040, new homes will be digital fortresses that will be protected by security systems based on the occupants’ biometrics and facial pattern recognition (FPR) software. Living with robots will be the norm; […]

UK Insurance Trends

Broker News: Kingsbridge Buys Up Freelance Specialist Dinghy

Freelance specialist broker Kingsbridge has acquired on-demand insurance start-up Dinghy in a move that looks set to ignite innovation in the broker sector, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Dinghy offers UK freelancer’s […]