Global insurance trends

Average Cargo Theft Costs Around $77K, Says TT Club Survey

TT Club and BSI have issued the second edition of their report on global cargo theft, the first to cover a full year.  Highlighted findings include: theft from road vehicles once more accounts for the […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker News: N&G Launches Small Boat Policy, With Extra Features

Leading pleasure-craft insurer Navigators and General (N&G)has launched a new small craft policy with increased cover and new market-leading features.  The insurer, owned by Zurich, is rolling out the enhanced policy to new and existing customers […]

News

Fraud: Horwich Farrelly Helps Secure Conviction of Bus Claim Scamster

Leading public transport operator First Bus working with leading insurance industry law firm, Horwich Farrelly, has successfully secured the conviction of a fraudster who claimed to have been severely injured when a bus collided with his […]

InsureTech

Insurtech: Honcho Gets a £750K Investment Boost from Maven Partners

Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has invested a further £750,000, in disruptive car insurance platform, Honcho Markets Ltd (“honcho”). The funding has been provided by Maven VCTs […]

Global insurance trends

Mergers & Deals: IT Consultancy CGI Makes Offer on SCISYS

CGI has announced a cash offer of 254.15 pence per share to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of SCISYS through its wholly owned indirect subsidiary CGI Group Holdings Europe […]

Travel Insurance

Marketing: AllClear Travel Sees Life in Old Fashioned Newspaper Ads

AllClear Travel has agreed a two-year partnership with Reach plc across the Daily Mirror and People newspapers as well as a number of regional titles to provide dedicated specialist, medical travel insurance to its combined readership. […]

UK Insurance Trends

LV Launches Pure Electric Car Cover, Including Charging Equipment/Batteries

LV is launching electric car insurance, with features like recovery to the nearest charging point as standard. Better still, a call-out to rescue your lifeless electric vehicle will NOT affect your NCD. For those owners […]