Household Insurance

Friday the 13th – Is It Really Unlucky For Landlords?

It’s Friday 13th, and whether you are superstitious or not, we all know that accidents can and do happen! In 2017, Total Landlord Insurance (TLI) paid on average £759 for accidental damage claims, reminding landlords […]

Conference report

BIBA 2018: Innovation Zone and Hackathon Challenge

Insurtech is THE buzzword across the industry and brokers all over the UK will be trying to find ways of saving time, handling data better, tracking claims progress and finding new customers using the best […]

Fraud

Digital Intel Will Help Managers With Compliance Issues

A new ‘digital intelligence’ service is helping banks and financial institutions to meet the challenges of the new Senior Manager regime. The service from London-based tech company Neotas provides a way for employers to evidence […]

Fraud

`Steak’ Your Claim Sir? Not if You’re Using Injury Photos from You Tube

Latest anti-fraud news from the IFED: A man was sentenced to 8 months, suspended for 2 years, for fraud by false representation at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday 11 April 2018 after pleading guilty on […]

Big Data

Lloyds Report on Sharing Economy is a Wake-Up for Insurance Industry

A few days ago, Lloyd’s, published a report called, “Sharing risks, sharing rewards: who should bear the risk in the sharing economy?”, analysing risk perceptions in a booming industry sector, which has seen the rise […]

Insurance Regulation

EU Allowing Consumers to Take Collective Legal Action Could Be Costly

The EU Commission has announced that it intends to grant consumers the right to form collective group actions across the European Union. The proposals are quite far-reaching with the EU intending to levy fines based […]

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Business

GRP Acquisitions Continue With Thomas Sagar Ins of Burnley Latest Buy

Global Risk Partners is still on the acquisition trail, after snapping up a succession of brokerages last year, and earlier in 2018. Here’s the latest news from them; GRP has acquired Thomas Sagar Insurances Ltd […]

Big Data

AON Risk Report Looks at Potential Threats Around the World

Risk is a notoriously difficult thing to calculate accurately. As the insurance industry changes and Artificial Intelligence is used to assess consumers, businesses and nations, it will be interesting to see how much weight AI […]