Insurance & Reinsurance

Allianz Completes Acquisition of Ensure Insurance

Allianz Group announced today the completion of the acquisition of 99.03 percent of the shares in Nigerian insurer Ensure Insurance plc from its core shareholder Greenoaks Global Holdings Ltd. (GGH). Ensure Insurance plc offers life and […]

Artificial Intelligence

AI News: Start-Ups Compete for Drive With Belron 200K Award

Drive with Belron, powered by investor and innovation partner L Marks, is hosting their Demo Day for the three startups chosen to take part in the 2018 ten-week startup innovation lab. Belron and L Marks […]

Household Insurance

LexisNexis Launches Pre-Fill Quote Engine in Home Insurance Market

One of the big problems in home insurance is the amount of data that customers have to input online, just to obtain a quote. Often, when trying to compare one broker, or insurer with another, […]

Motor Insurance

Road Safety: Heatwave & Holidays Causing Driver Rage and Accidents

The continued hot weather and everyday stressful situations are said to be fuelling aggressive driving on the UK’s roads, according to research. That sea of taillights at rush hour has drivers seeing red in more ways […]

Legal

Holidaysafe Partners With Pennington Manches on Legal Expenses

Award winning travel insurance brand Holidaysafe has teamed up with the award-winning travel law team at leading law firm Penningtons Manches LLP, to ensure their customers are given the best possible legal support if they […]

Emerging Risk

Call for Tighter Regulation of Comparison Websites in Construction Sector

Government officials have thanked an insurance industry leader for raising concerns about the effects of price comparison websites in the UK construction industry. But officials from HM Treasury stopped short of agreeing to Mark Herbert’s […]

Global insurance trends

Marine Insurance: Lessons Learned from Ship Transfer Oil Spillage

Some news from the UK P&I Club; Senior Loss Prevention Executive, David Nichol at UK P&I, discusses the lessons learnt from a recent incident involving the failure of a cargo hose, resulting in an oil spill: […]

Business

Digital Risks Raises $2.5m in Fresh Investment Round

Digital Risks, the digital-first insurance provider for fast-growth technology and media businesses, has raised £2.25m in an investment round led by Concentric, with participation from Atami Capital, Seedcamp, London Co-Investment Fund and Beazley. The insurtech […]