Insurance Brokers

BPL Global Creates Excess of Loss Team, Eyes Trade Credit Niche

BPL Global, the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, has created a team dedicated to excess of loss (XOL) trade credit insurance with a specific focus on the trade finance sector. XOL traditionally […]

Flood Insurance

Flood Risk News: Auger Academy Sees Engineers Graduate

Specialist for the insurance industry Auger has seen a fresh group of 12 staff graduate through its industry-leading academy. The company has launched its own Auger Academy aimed at supporting and developing both the company’s […]

Insurance claims

Gallaghers Survey Highlights Company Cyber/Crisis Attack Risk

Half of large UK businesses have been impacted by a major crisis event in the last 12 months. This is one of the key findings from a report – Combatting crisis complacency: large businesses’ approach to […]

HR & Employment

Health Study Finds 51% of Diabetes Patients Suffer Mental Health Issues

An independent study of people living with type 1 and 2 diabetes, by Censuswide, commissioned by Ieso Digital Health, the UK’s leading provider of online therapy highlights the scale of mental health problems affecting those […]

Global insurance trends

Willis Towers Completes First Blockchain Deal on Marine Insurance

Willis Towers Watson is at the forefront of blockchain technology delivering on the first blockchain transaction for marine insurance along with partners, EY, A.P. Møller-Maersk, Willis Towers Watson, XL Catlin, MS Amlin, ACORD and Microsoft. This is […]

Conference report

BIBA Feedback: Talking Risk Score, Hackathon and NASA with James Burton

After all the excitement of BIBA last month, Insurance-Edge thought it would be the right time to catch up with James Burton, Director of Product Management at LexisNexis. The insurance software specialist company were heavily involved […]

Artificial Intelligence

In an Automated Manufacturing World, Cyber Attack is a Growing Risk

Here’s the thing about Artificial Intelligence; it takes away human thinking, instinct and judgement, replacing it with an algorithm, strings of code which mimic human actions and thought processes. In some ways that makes AI […]

Insurance Regulation

EU Allowing Consumers to Take Collective Legal Action Could Be Costly

The EU Commission has announced that it intends to grant consumers the right to form collective group actions across the European Union. The proposals are quite far-reaching with the EU intending to levy fines based […]