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What were insurance leaders’ 2025 highlights?

2025-12-22T08:00:00+00:00By Insurance Times

As 2025 comes to a close, Insurance Times asks leaders across the industry what their highlights of the year were

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News Analysis

Nancy Bewlay: ’When I hear uninsurable, I often think the homework hasn’t been done’

2025-12-19T08:00:00+00:00By

After 33 years in the industry, Axa’s first group chief underwriting and pricing officer tells Insurance Times why excluding emerging risks like AI goes against insurance’s core purpose.

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Analysis

Chasing the update on ‘hit and miss’ claims tracking tools

2025-12-18T08:00:00+00:00By

Findings from this year’s Insurance Times MGA market report have exposed claims tracking tools as an area brokers want to be held under the microscope – but what should a successful claims tracking service look like for brokers and MGAs?

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News

A race to the bottom – the unintended consequence of GIPP?

2025-12-17T08:00:00+00:00By

Four years after the introduction of GIPP, and with slowing premium growth finally allowing its impact to be assessed, Insurance Times investigates whether the rules spawned a worrying unintended consequence – and whether an Irish model might provide the remedy

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News Analysis

FCA criticised for not providing more case studies after issuing final NFM guidance

2025-12-16T08:00:00+00:00By

’This is particular cause for concern,’ says counsel

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IT Interview

Victoria Sutton: Howden’s claims director on bringing back leadership in the sector

2025-12-15T08:00:00+00:00By

‘There’s often a confusion in thinking that you need to be a manager to be a leader, but you don’t, you don’t necessarily need to be doing the management bit – you can just be a leader,’ says business performance director

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News Analysis

In Focus: Ghost portals ‘fool every police officer’ as new fraud trend undermines frontline policing

2025-12-12T08:00:00+00:00By

A fast-growing fraud trend involving fake insurer portals designed to deceive frontline police officers prompted fresh concern among counter fraud leaders attending latest quarterly roundtable

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IT Interview

Derek Coles: UGL Insurance’s chief executive talks ‘recalibrating’ after completing ‘three years in one’

2025-12-11T08:00:00+00:00By

’We’re like a chameleon, or a leopard that can change its spots – we can be different things to different markets and that’s what gives our business flexibility,’ chief executive tells Insurance Times

Continental Europe

News Analysis

Continental Europe primed to adopt Consumer Duty type rules as ‘alignment between regulators’ gains prominence

2025-12-10T14:00:00+00:00By

French industry leader believes the UK’s ‘regulatory focus’ for general insurance oversight is set to ‘become the new norm in Continental Europe’

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News Analysis

Autonomous cars could hit UK next year – but is UKGI ready?

2025-12-09T08:00:00+00:00By

‘We’re moving away from insuring the behaviours of a driver to insuring the behaviours of an algorithm,’ says director of motor underwriting

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News Analysis

Why Aviva, Ageas UK and Markel were named insurers of the year at 2025’s Insurance Times Awards

2025-12-08T08:00:00+00:00By

Insurance DataLabs provides the facts and figures behind the biggest insurer trophies at the Insurance Times Awards 2025

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News Analysis

Commercial lines rates fall by 11.7% as market softening reasserts itself

2025-12-05T08:00:00+00:00By

The latest data from the commercial insurance market reveals that premiums fell by 11.7% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, marking the most significant rate decrease recorded in the current soft market cycle

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