Life/Health/Critical illness

MPs and Charities Campaign to Change Insurance Rules on Cancer Declaration

MPs and charities are campaigning to change the rules on travel insurance, so that cancer survivors who are in remission for a set number of years will no longer have to declare the illness. The […]

Opinion

Opinion: How Big Insurers Can Work Better with Insurtech Start-Ups

In this piece, Nikolaus Suehr, co-founder and CEO of KASKO, looks at how big name insurance companies get the best results from working with insurtech start-ups. With billions being invested globally, and a race to […]

News

Budget 2018: ABI Urges Freeze on £6bn Insurance Premium Tax

The Government is being urged to freeze Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) at the forthcoming Budget, after HMRC figures revealed that taxpayers are now paying record amounts of the tax. Official tax receipts for August show IPT […]

News

London Insurance Market Has Little to Fear From Brexit, Says Aon Executive

London still has much to offer as a global insurance centre if it changes with the times, a leading figure in the industry has said. Karl Hennessy, CEO of Carrier Solutions at Aon, said that […]

Motor Insurance

Car Insurance News: Latest NCAP Ratings From Thatcham Research

Results from the latest batch of vehicles to be tested by Euro NCAP and its partners have been announced today. Cars from Hyundai, Lexus, Mazda and Mercedes-Benz all achieved five-star Euro NCAP ratings for safety, […]

News

Auger Predicts Subsidence Claims Will Run Into Next Year, After Hot Summer

Specialist for the insurance industry Auger says the dramatic rise in the cases of subsidence due to the record-breaking dry spell in the UK will go on well in to 2019. Chris Cowen, client relationship […]

Household Insurance

Broker News: LexisNexis Map View Gives You Realtime Risk Management

Today your Insurance Editor had an education in how powerful data analytics truly is in the modern digital era. People talk about transformation in the UK insurance sector but it isn’t until you see a […]