Household Insurance

Survey Says Landlords Get Better Returns By Renting to Families

A new survey suggests that landlords can benefit by renting to families, as the data reveals that homes rented to them take up the least amount of property management time when compared to other types […]

Insurance Regulation

Opinion: Stop Misleading Drivers Over Autonomous Vehicle Capability

Driverless cars is one of those buzzword phrases which domiates the automotive media right now – but how close are we to truly autonomous cars? Not very, according to Thatcham Research, and we have posted […]

Emerging Risk

Dixons Carphone Warehouse Data Breach Highlights Risks For Insurance Sector

The news that the Dixons Carphone Warehpuse group suffered a data breach involving almost 6 million accounts highlights the huge risks in the growing cyber insurance sector. Although Dixons-Carphone (DC) say that no fraud has […]

Insurance Regulation

Broker News: BIBA Response to EU Motor Insurance Directive

Last week the EC (European Community) announced its proposals on changes to the Motor Insurance Directive in light of a number of court rulings that have affected its application and has identified five areas for […]

Insurance Regulation

GDPR Act Gets Rubber Stamp from UK Government

The latest news from the Association of British Insurers: The Data Protection Act, which received Royal Assent today, overhauls how businesses and other organisations process and handle customer data. The Act implements the EU General Data […]

Big Data

GDPR Clock is Ticking Says Beazley International – Fines Could Hit Hard

Raf Sanchez, Beazley International Breach Response Service Manager, comments ahead of the introduction of GDPR on 25 May: “Regulators and individuals are on the cusp of acquiring enhanced tools to hold organisations to account for poor […]

Big Data

SAS Survey Finds Insurance Sector Expects IFRS 17 To Increase Costs

Compliance is a very dull word – even duller than accountancy – but it gets interesting when any changes to the way insurers carry out day-to-day  business fundamentally changes. Usually that means extra costs, retraining […]