Insurance Regulation

LIIBA Calls For Private-Public Partnership on Future Pandemics

Creating an insurance solution capable of responding to a future pandemic will be ‘a series of trade-offs’ designed to maintain the involvement of private insurers without making the product so restrictive that it fails to […]

Insurance Brokers

LV= Paid Out on 94% on Life/Critical & Income Protection Claims in 2019

New stats from the LV= Press Office reveal that protection specialist LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling £100 million during 2019. LV= supported more than 8,100 claimants and their families paying 94% of all […]

Opinion

Opinion: Rebuilding After Bushfires Takes More Than Insurance Payouts

In this latest Opinion piece, Paula Jarzabkowski takes a look at the long term impact of the bushfires in Australia, and tries to figure out ways to rebuild communities, not just pay out hard cash. […]

InsureTech

India: Icertis Hackathon Winners Improve Crop Failure Claims Process

Icertis, the leading provider of enterprise contract management in the cloud, today announced the winners of Icertis’ AI/ML and Blockchain Hackathon, at the grand finale held in Pune. The winning team’s innovative solution utilized machine learning […]

Opinion

Opinion: Ireland’s Insurance Fraud Party Will End With a Miserable Hangover

Straight talking from the Editor: Nobody likes paying insurance. There, I said it, plain as a pikestaff, and just like proposing free beer on Fridays as part of my General Election campaign for the Let’s-Have-a-Party […]

News

Is Cyber Insurance Worth It? ABI Reveals 99% of 2018 Claims Were Paid

The Association of British Insurers has, for the first time, revealed that 99% of claims made (207) on ABI-member cyber insurance policies in 2018 were paid. This is one of the highest claims acceptance rates […]