Insurance & Reinsurance

PPL Electronic Risk Placements Are on The Up

Electronic placement of risk is something that is becoming more common within the UK insurance sector and as you’d expect London is at the heart of that transformational process. PPL announced that the system for […]

Business

Deals & Acquisitions: HRC Buying Qdos Contractor

Tokio Marine HCC announced its wholly-owned subsidiary, HCC International Insurance Company PLC, has signed a purchase agreement with Qdos Holdings Limited and other selling shareholders to acquire Qdos Contractor of The Qdos Group for an undisclosed amount.  Qdos […]

News

AIG Europe Results Show Storm Damage Hit The Bottom Line

AIG Europe Limited (AEL) reported a 7% increase in Net Premiums Written for the year ended 30 November 2017, supported by underlying business growth as well as favourable currency movements. The high level of natural […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Sun Life Continues to Grow Market Share

SunLife, the UK’s most successful direct marketing over 50s brand, has reported continued substantial growth in 2017, achieving robust performance in all business areas, as life after 50 proves to be a golden age. SunLife […]

Global insurance trends

Willis Towers Energy Review Shows Losses & Stability in Sector

Willis Towers Watson today launched its Energy Market Review for 2018, stating that the downstream energy sector suffered its worst loss record for nearly ten years. However, despite this and the impact of 2017’s Gulf […]

Global insurance trends

Zurich Assures UK Customers That Brexit Will Actually Change Very Little

Zurich are upbeat about the UK insurance landscape after Brexit, and have posted a statement on their website, to reassure customers that in the short term at least, there will be very little change in […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

London Market: AEGIS Syndicate Posts Healthy Results

AEGIS London has delivered a combined ratio of 99% in 2017 for Syndicate 1225 – this was 15% better than the result announced for the Lloyd’s market overall. At £462m, gross written premium was ahead […]

Lloyd's/London Market

Channel Syndicate & Canopius Joins Liberty in Toredo Project

The Channel Syndicate and Canopius will join Liberty Specialty Markets in forming a consortium to provide capacity for Toredo, an online platform for single situation trade credit insurance.  The London Market Credit Consortium (LMCC), will provide […]