Opinion

The 2026 Breach Landscape: The Growth of Hyper-Targeted Fraud

This piece is by Jim Van Dyke Trend lines in the cyber risk environment have been anything but straight during recent years. In 2025, data breaches worsened, reversing the declines seen in the previous year.2 […]

Legal

GEMA Takes Legal Action Against OpenAI on Copyright Issues

The question of copyright is tricky for insurers working in Specie; art, music, spoken or written word etc. As AI evolves it will become much smarter at taking existing work and remixing it, often within […]

UK Insurance Trends

Survey Reveals Many Councils Have No Cyber Insurance

The word from Apricorn, who highlight the cyber risks inherent within the public sector;  Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives, has today announced new findings from its annual survey and […]

Technology

Sophos Cyber Survey: Balancing Risks, Building Defences, and Gaining Coverage

Some interesting research from Sophops on cyber risks, plus strategies used to lower insurance costs on cyber too; Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today released findings from its survey, […]

Insurance claims

Company Fined 120K After Fatal Workplace Incident

The latest case report from the HSE; A manufacturing company has been fined £120,000 after a worker was killed after becoming trapped between two heavy steel beams. In May 2019, Steve Rooke, 55, was working […]

Insurance claims

Workers Injured After Health & Safety Breaches

Latest case report from the HSE; A bedding manufacturer has been fined more than £250,000 after two of its employees were seriously injured during separate incidents at its site in Rochdale. The Health and Safety […]

Opinion

Rethinking Data Security: On-premises Vs Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Recently 23andMe, the popular DNA testing service, made a startling admission: hackers had gained unauthorised access to the personal data of 6.9 million users, specifically their ‘DNA Relatives’ data.  This kind of high-profile breach made […]

Insurance claims

Fatal Fall Incident Results in 320K Fine

A company involved in fruit and vegetable production has been fined £320,000 after a man “who always put family first” was killed at a site in Burscough. Francis Schlachter, known as Frank, suffered severe head […]