HR & Employment

Survey Says 25% of Insurance Staff Start Looking for a New Job In January

New research has found that nearly 25% of insurance industry employees in customer service roles are most likely to look for a new job in January, due to a seasonal slump in engagement and motivation. The survey, […]

HR & Employment

Mercer’s Survey Looks at Pension Schemes Deficit for 2019

Mercer’s Pensions Risk Survey data shows that the accounting deficit of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes for the UK’s 350 largest listed companies increased from £38bn at the end of November to £40bn on 31 […]

Global insurance trends

New Report Looks at Reinsurance Market in 2020 & Beyond

The financial impact of a future global software failure could be so great that the (re)insurance industry is likely to require additional capacity from the capital markets. Since their birth in the 1990s, insurance-linked securities […]

InsureTech

Best Review Takes The Insurtech Temperature 2020

The January 2020 issue of Best’s Review features a special section on the insurtech sector. Insurtechs, which began to emerge about three years ago, leverage technology to achieve greater cost savings and a better customer experience […]

Global insurance trends

Reports: Aon & Merger Market Look at Risk 2019 and Beyond

Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, and Mergermarket today jointly released the Risk in Review 2019: EMEA report. Findings from the report show that the uptake […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

UK Healthcare Sector Looking Ahead to 2020, Says CNA Hardy

UK healthcare business leaders are predicting a rise in confidence in their businesses’ ability to thrive and prosper in 2020, with a 10% increase in confidence levels predicted by next spring compared to spring this […]

Legal

Smart Motorways Are Essentially Unsafe, Say UK Drivers

More than two-thirds (68%) of drivers in England questioned by the RAC think removing the hard shoulder, as is happening on the ever-increasing number of the country’s smart motorways, compromises safety for those who breakdown […]

Insurance Brokers

Revealed: Two Thirds of UK Brokers Suffer Mental Health Issues

Over two-thirds of brokers have experienced some kind of mental health issue linked to work in the last 12 months, according to latest research by Ecclesiastical. In its second annual Broker Wellbeing Survey, the specialist […]