Opinion

CrowdStrike Event: A Wake Up Call for the Insurance Industry?

Some thoughts on the lessons we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage, by Hermes Marangos, Partner and Insurance lawyer at Signature Litigation. The IT outage which caused 8.5 million systems running Microsoft Windows to crash […]

UK Insurance Trends

Life Insurers: It’s Worth Noting The Drop in UK Life Expectancy

The latest adjusted mortality rates in the UK show a drop in life expectancy, which is something that life and critical illness insurers should be closely watching. Here’s the word; The Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) […]

News

Hunt’s `Work After 50′ Plan is A Golden Opportunity For Insurers

Will Jeremy Hunt’s plan to sweeten the eventual pension pot when workers retire aged 70 be enough to persuade millions to keep working until health problems inevitably affect our lives? That’s the question insurers need […]

Global insurance trends

Travel Insurance: Is The Sector Getting Its Mojo Back?

Despite the doom n gloom surrounding the UK economy in the mainstream media, the travel sector seems to be recovering nicely from the Covid restrictions. Although some countries stubbornly cling onto masks and vax records […]

News

Car Insurance Premiums Up 7.8%, Says Consumer Intelligence

The latest research by Consumer Intelligence seems to show that what many predicted is coming true; ending introductory discounts is bound to lead to every policyholder paying more for car insurance. Here’s the word; New […]

News

Latest Research Suggests Car Insurance Getting Slightly Cheaper

As new rules on pricing zoom into view for insurers, the direction of travel for the cost of car insurance may be about to change after months of COVID-related contractions, according to insurance pricing experts, […]