Insurance & Reinsurance

Broker Update: Home & Legacy Fine Tunes Its Household Offer

In direct response to broker feedback, high net worth insurance specialist, Home & Legacy – a subsidiary of Allianz – has made some key improvements to household e-trading on Home & Legacy Online. The new […]

Legal

Legal: Clyde & Co Launches Parametric Insurance Contracts

The legal sector is increasingly becoming automated and one aspect of this is the business of administering contracts. Change is happening rapidly, and the potential for offering better customer service, and cutting costs, is something […]

Conference report

BIBA Hackathon 2019: Grey Team Take the Title This Year

Winners of the BIBA Hackathon this year were the Grey team, who took up the challenge of fine-tuning the data flow between insurer and broker. Now that communication channel should be easy street in theory, […]

InsureTech

InsurTech: New Untangler App Wants to Solve Quotes Roadblock

Two entrepreneurs in the insurance and group benefits space have built a piece of insurtech that bypasses a roadblock in the quotes process – and it promises to put the joy back into insurance roles […]

Business

Victor Insurance Appoints Anthony Stevens to Senior Role

Victor Insurance Holdings, the world’s largest managing general underwriter (MGU), today announced the appointment of Anthony Stevens as President of Victor International, effective immediately. Ā In this role, Mr. Stevens is responsible for advancing Victor’s insurance […]

Global insurance trends

Global News: Marsh Report Suggests Commercial Rates Are On The Up

Marsh has released itsĀ Global Insurance Market IndexĀ for the first quarter of 2019. Key findings include: Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Average commercial insurance prices increased 3% in Q1 2019,Ā the largest increase since the survey began in 2012. Ā·Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Q1 2019 represents […]

HR & Employment

Social Inclusion News: Allianz Chooses School of Hard Knocks as Charity Partner

As part of its commitment to giving back to the local Croydon community, Allianz Partners UK has chosen School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) as its 2019 charity partner. SOHK uses high impact sport, including rugby […]

Insurance claims

Small Companies Losing Thousands When Fleet Vehicles Break Down

Small businesses are indisputably the lifeblood of the UK economy but many are putting their daily productivity at risk by failing to protect themselves against one of their vehicles unexpectedly breaking down. Data from the […]