News

Corona: MAPFRE Steps Up with 5m Euro Research Grant to Fight Pandemic

Insurers are getting a hard time right now, over their sudden U-turn on contagious disease cover and the slow response that some stranded travellers have encountered when trying to get home. Pointing out the small […]

Opinion

The Interview: 360 Degree Data Is The Key to Quoting Everyone Happy

Insurance Edge travelled to Nottingham, to meet Richard Tomlinson, MD at Percayso Inform. They’re going full throttle on data insights and analytics for insurers and brokers. Everyone in the industry knows that more data is […]

Insurance claims

Zurich Teams Up With Carpe Data on Sharper Claims Processing

Zurich has found a new ally in the fight against increasing claims costs. The insurer is now working with Carpe Data, a California-based company whose innovative use of alternative and emerging data provides Zurich with […]

InsureTech

You Talk A Good Game on Fraud, But Are You DataWalking It Matey?

Detecting fraud is getting harder as we increasingly live our lives online; shopping, takeaway on Friday, social media, see a doctor, make a claim etc. It’s all automated and people expect transactions to take just […]

Opinion

Hastings Profit Drop Highlights Car & Motorbike Insurance Transformation

Disclaimer: Your IE editor was once a happy Hastings customer, with a Triumph motorcycle covered at a fair price, via a call centre chat once a year. That was over a decade ago however, and […]

Big Data

Percayso Inform Just Launched a Virtual Data Room for Insurers & Brokers

The next generation of insurance intelligence is now available to insurers and brokers with the launch of Percayso Inform. Harnessing the very latest techniques in data science and machine learning, allied with new powerful datasets […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker: CNA Hardy Makes Key Science Underwriter Hire

CNA Hardy has appointed Lewis Hepper as Life Science Underwriter. Reporting to Asha Patel, Life Science Underwriting Manager, London, Lewis will be responsible for building relationships with brokers and driving a profitable book of life […]

InsureTech

LexisNexis Invests in Data Modelling Graduate Training Project

Data is black gold, not oil. The modern insurance industry relies on ever-increasing amounts of data being harvested, analysed and extrapolated into tables that enable risks to be balanced against premium income. That sounds easy, […]