UK Insurance Trends

Timeshare Compo Scam is Just One of Many

“Don’t underestimate the other guy’s greed,” was the famous quote from Scarface, the classic 80s gangster movie. It holds true today in the world of email and phone text scams, says the Timeshare Association. Worse […]

News

Positive Results For Hannover Re, Weathering the Cat Storm

Hannover Re has issued some earnings guidance for the 2022 financial year; “Even before the extensive devastation caused by Hurricane ‘Ian’, 2022 was a year of above-average large loss expenditure,” said Jean-Jacques Henchoz, Chief Executive […]

InsureTech

Praedicat Launches New Modelling Tools

Praedicat, the liability emerging risk analytics company, has launched Nekomodel X, the next generation of its probabilistic casualty catastrophe model. Nekomodel X is designed to expand on the underwriting applications of previous model releases and […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker Deals: Servca Buys Medicas

Independent Lloyd’s retail broker Servca announces its acquisition of Medicas, an independent insurance specialist, offering a wide range of medical indemnity, medical malpractice and healthcare liability insurance for healthcare groups, entities and individual practitioners. Medicas […]

Insurance claims

Wearable Tech Safety Vest is a Win For Workplace Insurers

The IE theme for November is Wearable Tech: How Can It Help Claims & Rehab? So although this is more prevention than cure, it does highlight how tech can monitor potential risk, or mobility after […]

Global insurance trends

China Life Sector in Focus, Latest From GlobalData

Here’s the latest market snapshot from GlobalData. China is a country wehre the pndemic and its lockdowns continue to have a serious effect on people’s health. Recent relaxation of the one child policy, with the […]