Global insurance trends

Gold Rush Into Biofuels Offer Insurers a Huge Opportunity

As Prince Charles claims his Aston martin V8 runs on “cheese and wine,” (spoiler, it doesn’t, 85% of the fuel is still petrol) and this news from the USA on aviation fuel made from recycled […]

Technology

Cyber: Which Councils Suffer Most Data Breaches?

VPNOverview sent out an FOI request to 103 county councils across the UK, to discover which had the most private data breaches within their organisations. Overall, the UK’s councils saw a total of 33,645 human […]

Motor Insurance

EVs: BattMan Developing a Solution for Recycling Battery Packs

Battery storage is a high risk business and insurers need to think about how they will recycle, or dispose of, battery packs when electric cars reach a critical mass in a few years’ time. So, […]

News

Insurance Brands Rated on Quality of Customer Experience

 Forrester’s (Nasdaq: FORR) 2021 European Insurance Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) reveals that German insurers deliver the best customer experience (CX) in Europe, including one brand to reach the ‘excellent’ category as the first and only insurer in the CX Index. With an industry average score of 74.8 out of 100, German insurers are outperforming their […]

News

QuoteZone Sees 46% Rise in Demand on Healthcare Cover

According to data from a leading health insurance comparison website, demand for private health insurance policies surged by 46% in the first eight months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2019, the year […]

News

Brits Love to Compare, Says New Market Research Study

New research from global technology and management consultancy Capco has revealed nearly two-thirds (62%) of UK consumers choose insurance products via price comparison and aggregator review websites. This underlines the move to a new era of digitally savvy customers, where traditional brand loyalty is fading and the majority of consumers want to assess […]

InsureTech

New Insurtech Report from Capgemini

Capgemini and Efma’s World InsurTech Report 2021, has been published today. It reveals that InsurTechs and BigTech players are leveraging significant capital inflows to boost technological development and fuel innovation, turning up the heat on incumbent insurers. New age digital […]