Interviews
More than just capital - the private equity firm seeking to grow its insurance portfolio
Insurance Times talks to the private equity firm with a hunger for insurance assets
SafetyCulture’s head of partnerships on winning Technology Partner of the Year - Underwriting
Adam Gillett, SafetyCulture’s head of partnerships discusses what it means to win Technology Partner of the Year in Underwriting at Insurance Times’s Technology and Innovation Awards last September and the firm’s expansion
Broker Service Q&A: How Markel’s claims experience has improved amid restructure
Insurance Times speaks to Markel’s head of claims Richard Napoli about a key service factor being explored in the broker service survey amid the firm’s restructure
Arron Banks outlines billion-pound ambitions
Exclusive: Arron banks on the Remain witch hunt probe, Brightside and taking Eldon to £1bn firm
Former AXA Partners head of innovation reflects on potential technological changes in insurance industry
Milan Sud discusses how technology and customer expectation has changed the face of insurance as he reflects on his past three years at AXA Partners
The female-led property insurance repair firm gunning to work with insurers
The hardening professional indemnity market has meant huge premium hikes leaving some contractors unable to get the cover they need
Clive Nicholls: Adjusting to life after Crawford & Co
Outgoing president reflects on his high-profile career and the hazards of going “from 100mph to zero”
Broker Service Q&A: Tokio Marine HCC reveals the secret to coping with greater claims volumes
With the Insurance Times Broker Service Survey 2019/20 now open, Tokio Marine HCC’s underwriting director John Booth tells Savan Shah how understanding brokers is key to its operation and how it has dealt with the influx of claims over the past year
Be Wiser plans acquisitions and new AI technology to grow business
Be Wiser chairman Mark Bower-Dyke talks about his plans to return the business to growth
McCafferty puts focus on broking with 18-month Brightside investment plan
McCafferty spells out which areas of the business will receive investment and how he is shaping Brightside as a ‘2020s broker’
Marsh UK boss Lay opens up on integration of ‘feisty’ JLT
Interview: Adrien Cohen - the Tractable founder blazing a trail in insurtech
Distribution model facing fundamental change, MGAA head warns brokers
Catlin and Brand detail recipe for success with Convex
Hastings’ CFO seeks ‘balance’ on premiums and costly claims inflation
eTrading Report findings: ‘Where next?’ with Polaris’ Simon Bloomfield
CLS: the £350m MGA looking to ‘grow by 40% in two years’ through broker partnerships
Peter Montanaro interview: Brokers must play their part in Lloyd’s future
From police constable to premium finance executive – Close Brothers’ Sharon Bishop
Five AI insurtechs with a BIG future
2019 eTrading: Applied Systems to use Google partnership to fuel innovation
Betfair-backed insurer champions claims sharing over ‘dysfunctional mainstream insurance’
Halkett and Bought By Many reveal international growth ambitions
New Victor International president preparing the MGA of the future
Ashwin Mistry interview: Championing the independent broker and encouraging the next generation
People Moves
Ex-Zurich SME chief lands top role at Ecclesiastical
Richard Coleman will lead the charity-owned insurer’s UK general insurance lines
Ardonagh boss laments ‘enormous amount of wasted time’ spent on poaching court case
It follows the firm revealing its financial results today
Ardonagh makes senior hire from Aviva
He has also worked at Marsh as its UK placement strategy director
FOIL names new president
The member organisation has also laid out its 2020 agenda
