Brit News
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NewsBrit renews cyber consortium to meet growing demand
’We are pleased to continue working alongside our capacity partners, brokers and their clients to maintain the London market’s reputation for leadership in cyber,’ says class underwriter for cyber property damage and cyber distribution
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NewsBrit launches new cyber and financial institutions consortium
’The launch enables us to offer a flexible deployment solution across multiple lines at scale,’ says class underwriter
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NewsBrit recruits former Lloyd’s leader as head of operations
’She brings a broad range of expertise and experience, including delivering operational change and digital transformation,’ says operations director
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NewsBrit’s undiscounted COR rises in H1 2025
It came ’against a backdrop of significantly increased major loss activity and more challenging market conditions’, says chief executive
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NewsWho triumphed at the Claims Excellence Awards 2025?
The gala event celebrates ’the companies that have thoughtfully considered and actioned ways to iron out and improve claims processes and impacts,’ says Insurance Times editor
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NewsIndustry has ‘optimistic’ timelines for AI implementation – Oxbow Partners
There is still ’an enormous amount of work to do’ around introducing generative AI, says group chief underwriting officer
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NewsInsurers still looking at data in ‘monolithic way’
’If you have data science in your business and start to get under the skin of that, you can make big changes to your underwriting result,’ says chief executive
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NewsRevealed: Claims Excellence Awards 2023 – winners and reaction
There were some lucky double winners and some firms picked up their very first Insurance Times Claims Excellence Award at our hottest awards so far – was it you?
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NewsBrit chief executive makes ‘hardest’ career decision and steps down
He will be succeeded by Martin Thompson, who took the reigns as interim chief executive last year
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NewsMatthew Wilson returns as Brit group chief executive
Wilson and his family have set up a fund with charity Blood Cancer UK
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NewsBrit Insurance remains ‘optimistic’ after 2021 full year profit of $247.1m
The insurer has confidence ’that it is well placed to respond to the opportunities and challenges ahead’
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NewsBrit snaps up Vitality UK Group chief data officer
The firm hopes the new data-driven role will enable the business to create better outcomes for its trading partners and clients
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NewsBrit appoints chief technology officer from Swiss Re insurtech startup
The firm hopes the new hire will help it apply ‘the latest innovations, approaches and technology to how we write risk’
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NewsBrit names interim group chief executive as Wilson takes indefinite leave
The insurer wishes Matthew Wilson well during this challenging time
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NewsLloyd’s syndicate Ki hires new chief technology officer
Ki’s chief executive says the syndicate is adopting a ‘technology-first’ approach to underwriting
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NewsBrit Insurance sees GWP increase by 14.2% amid Covid uncertainty
Brit’s group chief exec says Ki has had ’very positive reception’ from its broking partners
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NewsIs this the future for Lloyd's? Digital syndicate in successful start
Ki has also developed and released its first broker API to allow brokers to integrate digitally with the syndicate’s algorithm
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NewsLloyd’s syndicate Brit confirms it ‘has never’ underwritten Adani coal project policies
Campaigners are now calling on other Lloyd’s syndicates, such as Arch, Ark, Hamilton, Hiscox, Lancashire and MS Amlin, to do the same
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NewsBrit reports a 5.7% increase in GWP over 2020 despite $232m loss after tax
Group chief executive says there are ‘a number of indicators to give us cause for optimism’, regardless of the ‘significant’ financial impact of Covid-19
