Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 15 December to 19 December 2025
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In this month’s edition: UGL Insurance boss Derek Coles details the benefits of a platform business in a post-consolidation era, Insurance DataLab unpicks the financials of award winning insurers at this year’s Insurance Times Awards, ghost portals are the emerging insurance fraud threat to watch come 2026 and Open GI data suggests that commercial lines soft market is here to stay.
Sponsored content: Stephen Kennedy, director at Pearson Ham, discusses how to understand your trading environment and market movements
The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.
Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.
The official video from the evening is out – can you spot yourself?
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