Insurance claims

Legal Update: HMRC Issues VAT Guidance on Delegated Claims Handling

HMRC has this week issued new guidance on Delegated authority claims handling by Lawyers which may create additional VAT costs for law firms and lead to disputes with their insurance clients, RSM has warned. Many law firms […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Lloyds Makes Top 100 in Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index

Lloyd’s is the only insurance firm that has made this year’s Top 100 Employers list, released today by lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall. This is the first year that Lloyd’s has appeared […]

Fraud

BAE Systems Partners With Zurich on Anti-Fraud Initiative

BAE Systems has secured an extension to its eight-year partnership with Zurich UK, the UK subsidiary of the global insurance group. From January, BAE Systems will provide Zurich UK with its NetReveal Property & Casualty […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Healix Warning on Health Risks for Overseas Employees

Healix International, the global travel risk management and international medical and security assistance provider, has set out the big health challenges the company believes businesses sending employees abroad may face in 2019. “Diseases that tend […]

Fraud

SAS Partners Up with IFB on Anti-Fraud Strategy

The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has launched its new fraud prevention platform, powered by analytics leader SAS. Using advanced intelligent management capabilities the platform will allow insurance companies and authorities to safely and quickly share information […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker News: County Buy Out Swinford Insurance Consultants

The County Group has concluded the purchase of Swinford Insurance Consultants Ltd (Swinford), based in Kinver (West Midlands). This is their first deal completed in 2019 which will be a transformational year. Dave Clapp, CEO […]

Administration

White Paper Highlights Problem of Outdated Payments Systems

A new white paper published by ground-breaking financial utility, Banking Circle, has identified the stealth effect outdated payments processes are having on the insurance sector.  Featuring the findings of exclusive research amongst those responsible for treasury and […]

Business

2019 Outlook: Sedgwick Looking Forward

Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, today published its “Forward thinking 2019” list, which includes major industry trends employers and risk management professionals should watch this year. In […]