Opinion: It’s Time To Regulate Commercial Building Valuations
In this Opinion piece, Rebecca Fuller, Managing Director, Valuation Advisory at Duff & Phelps, looks at the problem of under-insurance and how to solve it. The days of [...]
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Rising Costs Are Affecting Claims on Historic Buildings, Says Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical, which has announced the provisional results of its buildings index for the first quarter of 2019. [...]
Opinion: Robust Inspections Needed to Assess Construction Site Fire Risk
In this article, Richard Forrest Smith, CEO, ECIC, takes a look at the fire risks inherent in the construction sector, the number of causes involved and how insurers can A [...]
Swiss Insurer Baloise Tries Out Anti-Hailstone Aircraft
Yes, we could hail this pilot scheme, with a dash of blue sky thinking, as a case of every cloud having a silver lining. But frankly those puns just wouldn’t fly [...]
Call for Tighter Regulation of Comparison Websites in Construction Sector
Government officials have thanked an insurance industry leader for raising concerns about the effects of price comparison websites in the UK construction industry. But [...]
Grenfell: Research Highlights Poor Lab Test Regime on Building Materials
Research conducted on behalf of the insurance industry in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire has exposed the utter inadequacy of the laboratory tests currently used to check [...]
LexisNexis Rolls-Out Telematics App Platform for Insurers & Brokers
In a major development for the global telematics market, insurance providers building their own customer facing websites, apps and notifications for telematics programmes can [...]