Global insurance trends

Supply Chain: NFP Partners With Loadsure

NFP, a leading insurance broker and consultant that provides specialized business and personal insurance, group benefits, retirement, and individual solutions, has announced its Canadian-based offices have formed an exclusive partnership with UK-based Loadsure. Through this relationship, Loadsure will […]

UK Insurance Trends

SMEs Struggling With Supply Chains and Cashflow

Small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the UK believe that, despite the disruption they have experienced since the beginning of 2020, their business continuity plans responded well to both the COVID-19 pandemic (71%) and […]

Legal

ACSO Calls For Urgent Action on Justice System Delays

It’s no secret that the UK’s justice system is collapsing faster than a fraud trial in Cyprus. Covid has prompted a go-slow across the public sector and despite the promotion of alternative dispute resolution schemes, […]

News

DVLA Trolls UK With `Hilarious’ Press Release

Those home-working pranksters at the DVLA have so much time on their hands that they’ve started trolling the British public, currently queing outside a petrol station. Yes, rather than resolve the backlog of HGV driver […]

News

Anansi Raises £1.5m, Aims to Expand Logistics Product

Anansi Technology, the embedded insurance platform for goods-in-transit, shippers’ interest and cargo insurance, today announces it has raised £1.5million seed funding led by Octopus Ventures.  Global parcel volumes reached 103 billion in 2019, yet less […]

Travel Insurance

Travel: Demand is Strong, Will Governments Allow Mass Exodus?

For anyone in the travel insurance sector, this makes tough reading. Demand for holidays is still there but control-freakery governments are determined to sow as many seeds of fear and doubt into people’s minds as […]

Global insurance trends

GlobaData Report Identifies Goods In Transit Opportunity

Brexit-induced controls at the UK/EU border creates an opportunity for goods in transit (GIT) insurers to adapt their products as the nature of risks change, while increased red tape will drive premiums up, says GlobalData, […]

Global insurance trends

Self-Driving Ships Could Be a Very Good Idea

Leading classification society ClassNK has begun joint investigative research with Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sompo Japan) on risk assessment of autonomous ships. Global efforts are accelerating toward the practical use of […]