Insurance Brokers

18% of Fatal Workplace Incidents Occur in Farm Sector

FARMERS need to make health and safety more of a priority to prevent serious accidents and injuries as the industry continues to have the highest rate of work-related deaths. This was the message from the […]

Conference report

BIBA Welcomes Financial Service Bill

The Financial Services and Markets Bill, which was published yesterday, has been welcomed by the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) but the trade association has called for assurances over the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consideration of the growth […]

Technology

OutSystems Joins SAP PartnerEdge Program

OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, today announced it has become an official member of the SAP® PartnerEdge® program, with a Build focus, underscoring its commitment to providing high-value low-code to businesses using SAP® solutions. While twice as many OutSystems customers […]

Insurance Brokers

Ecclesiastical Receives Top Credit Ratings

Global credit rating agencies AM Best and S&P Global have affirmed the credit ratings of Ecclesiastical Insurance Office PLC (Ecclesiastical). AM Best announced the specialist insurer and financial services group’s Financial Strength Rating as ‘A’ […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

HSBC Life Speeds Up Healthcare Plan Underwriting

In a UK Protection first, HSBC Life (UK) Ltd is launching a digital underwriting innovation that enables medical screening requests to be sent to and received back automatically from the medical screening provider Square Health. […]