Insurance Regulation

India: IRDAI Stands Firm on Corona Claims – Insurers MUST Pay Up

India’s insurers are braced to expect a raft of claims as Coronvirus sweeps across the country, and the regulator IRDAI insists that healthcare and hospital claims WILL be met for all COVID-19 sufferers. At present […]

InsureTech

Italian Insurtech Association Founded to Promote Innovation

Just spotted online, this new association aims to promote new ideas within the Italian insurance sector. Here’s the press statement; To accelerate the digital transformation in the insurance and supplementary pension sector, we need a […]

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YuLife and Deliciously Ella Offer Tips on Wellbeing at Home

YuLife, the insurance company that inspires life, has teamed up with Ella Mills, founder of lifestyle brand Deliciously Ella, to provide ‘life hacks’ to everyone working from home. With millions currently confined to their places […]

Underwriting transformation

AEGIS Underwriters Switch to Whitespace Platform

As the Lloyd’s insurance market moves to electronic trading during the current Coronavirus outbreak, managing agency AEGIS London has announced that all its underwriters are now available on the Whitespace insurance trading platform. The insurer […]

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Ardonagh Group Financials Show Healthy Performance in 2019

The Ardonagh Group, the UK’s leading, diversified independent insurance broker, today announces its financial highlights for the twelve months to 31 December 2019. Income rose by 26.6% to £667.5m whilst operational integration and a focus on […]

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Corona: MAPFRE Steps Up with 5m Euro Research Grant to Fight Pandemic

Insurers are getting a hard time right now, over their sudden U-turn on contagious disease cover and the slow response that some stranded travellers have encountered when trying to get home. Pointing out the small […]

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Learner Bikers Are Getting Better at Passing UK Motorcycle Test

Pass rates for learner motorbike riders have topped 70% for both practical and theory tests, according to new government figures. Department for Transport stats show that 72 percent of the 44,300 learners who took the […]

InsureTech

Minor Car Claims Could Be Settled By Smartphone, Within Minutes

The seismic shock that the insurance sector has undergone in the last few weeks will lead to big changes, most of which involve the use of automated systems, data science, remote working and AI decision […]