Investment

Aviva Acquires Friends First Life in £116m Deal

The latest news from Aviva; Aviva plc announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire Irish insurer Friends First Life Assurance Company dac (“Friends First”) for a cash consideration of €130m (£116m). As a […]

Investment

Zurich Completes Transformation Project with CapGemini

The insurance industry is changing at a rapid pace and those companies who don’t integrate and modernise their software systems risk being left behind. IT isn’t something that the customer can see, but it is […]

Insurance Brokers

Monday Briefing 13.11.17. £2000 Diesel Car Tax, Ripe Broker Expands & More

Here is your essential start-the-week round up; Insurance-Edge has learned from a source inside a leading BMW dealership that the Chancelleor is likely to introduce a new set of VED tax bands for diesel cars, […]

Household Insurance

Editorial: Can Amazon Really Disrupt the UK Insurance Market?

Last week Insurance-Edge received an interesting press release from Global Data, which highlighted the advantages Amazon has in launching a range of insurance products, in the USA, Europe and elsewhere. According to a Global Data […]

Insurance claims

Liquid Motors Teams Up With WeGoLook on Loss Adjustment via AI

OK brokers, claims management handlers and insurers; let’s imagine a time when you don’t need to send a motor engineer round with a clipboard, to assess the damage to a car, motorcycle or van. Instead, […]

Artificial Intelligence

Tractable Rolls Out AI Accident Damage App Across Industry

Claims handling is a stressful process, and a poorly handled claim can prompt the typical UK car driver to switch insurers, plus complain right across social media. But the accident management sector is rapidly evolving […]

Big Data

LexisNexis Sees a Pan-European Driving Data Future

Vehicle data is everywhere. From the amount of air and fuel being mixed by complex fuel-injection and exhaust gas recycling systems, Sat Navs, Telematics, or dashcam footage being backed up automatically to the Cloud, there […]