Insurance Brokers

Keychoice Partners with Plum Underwriting on Home Insurance Push

Keychoice, the insurance distribution business owned by SSP, has partnered with Plum Underwriting to enable its broking community to meet the needs of policyholders with non-standard homes. The partnership makes it easier for Keychoice members […]

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Motor Insurance

CII reacts to BBC’s ‘unfair underwriting’ taunt

Young Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) members are pushing for a thorough analysis of the effect of speed awareness courses on driver safety and how they should influence the premiums insurance companies charge motorists. The recommendation […]

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Artificial Intelligence

Insurers must be held back in public data scramble

There must be limits to the way our publicly available data is accessed and used by private organisations such as insurance companies. I am as enthused about social media as anyone, but a free for all backed by the resources of a Ā£20bn industry cannot be enabled without a substantial ethical debate. […]

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Insurance & Reinsurance

UK motor insurers’ underwriting results rebound 14%

A 10% rise in gross written premiums failed to put UK motor insurers in the black during 2011, according to Deloitte. The market experienced “greatly improved financial results in 2011 but need to do more […]

Big Data

Father of the Web warns insurers against data profligacy

Sir Tim Berners-Lee has urged insurers to avoid the temptation of using increasing amounts of publicly available data about consumers on the web to price their products.

The inventor of the World Wide Web made a plea to the industry at the British Insurance Brokers’s Association conference in Manchester yesterday, requesting that information we share about ourselves on line – particularly by young people through social networks – should not be gathered for the purposes of pricing risk. […]