Lloyd's/London Market

Direct Insurance Wins LSE `Inspiring Britain’ Award

Direct Insurance Group, a global speciality insurance group, has been recognised in this year’s London Stock Exchange Group’s ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ 2020 report. Direct Insurance is only one of five insurance business included.  […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

L&G Agrees Bulk Annuity Deal With BHS Pension Scheme

Legal & General Assurance Society Limited (“Legal & General”) today announces that it has agreed a £2.5 million bulk annuity transaction with the Trustee of The BHS Senior Management Scheme (“the Scheme”), securing the remaining members’ […]

InsureTech

Telematics Goes Mainstream: Policywise Teams Up With ThingCo

Policywise, the innovative insurance broker focused on providing truly personalised motor insurance, has selected telematics insurtech, ThingCo, to help it create a brand new, mass market telematics proposition. Policywise will be offering customers ThingCo’s solar […]

Technology

Tech: Sungard Signs Up Two New Customers

Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS), a leading provider of highly-available, cloud connected infrastructure in North America and Europe, today announced two customers who are beneficiaries of its Next-Generation Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner Programme. Next-generation AWS […]

Global insurance trends

BUPA Hong Kong Partners With Tictrac on Healthcare App

Bupa Hong Kong, a leading health insurance specialist, has partnered with global health engagement company, Tictrac, to bring Bupa4Life to Hong Kong, a new wellness engagement platform that helps customers understand their health conditions and encourages […]

Insurance claims

Copart Opens New Customer Centre in Bedford

Vehicle remarketing company Copart UK is creating a major new customer service centre as part of its continuing expansion programme to meet growing demand from its insurer customers.  Copart has secured 10,000 square feet of […]

Insurance Brokers

Events: BIBA 2021 is Scheduled for 12th/13th May

The theme of the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) annual conference 2021 is Strengthening Resilience. This represents the strength and determination of the insurance sector and indeed, the UK and will feature in much of […]