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World Cup windfall or claims headache? Hospitality’s summer surge puts insurers on alert

2026-06-05T08:00:00+01:00By

A summer boost from staycation spending and World Cup crowds is set to lift UK hospitality revenues, but insurance experts warn that higher footfall could drive claims and expose underinsurance across the sector

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Howden launches new commercial operation in North Wales

2026-06-03T11:00:00+01:00By

‘With North Wales playing a central role in our growth strategy, I look forward to the opportunities ahead for our expanding team,’ says managing director

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High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week

2026-05-29T14:00:00+01:00By Insurance Times

Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 25 to 29 May 2026

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TikTok partners with insurtech to launch embedded commercial insurance

2026-05-29T10:00:00+01:00By

‘While historically embedded insurance heavily focused on personal lines, the next wave will gravitate toward commercial lines,’ says analyst

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Bupa expands SME health insurance offering amid absence concerns

2026-05-28T13:10:00+01:00By

’With sickness absence at record levels, even one person being off can have a big impact,’ says director of product and proposition

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In Focus: Middle East conflict reveals ‘huge risk management gap’

2026-05-28T07:00:00+01:00By

The latest SR:500 Exchange virtual roundtable, hosted by sister publication Strategic Risk, brought together risk professionals, brokers and academics to discuss risk management’s moving goalposts amid geopolitical fluctuations

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MGA secures Lloyd’s capacity for global yachts expansion

2026-05-28T06:00:00+01:00By

Managing director says move is an ‘important milestone’

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Green shoots in packages and specialist segments amid commercial lines premium slump

2026-05-27T07:00:00+01:00By

Insurance Times’ Commercial Lines Premium Index – released in association with Open GI – reveals that while a 7.7% year-on-year fall in commercial lines GWP has reaffirmed persistent soft market conditions, a small number of lines have bucked the trend

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Zurich adds modular core cover to SME commercial combined offering

2026-05-26T12:00:00+01:00By

‘For us, it was crucial to design a policy that our brokers could easily modify and work flexibly to meet the needs of their clients,’ says head

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Insurance Times publishes new UK product liability report in association with Arch

2026-05-19T06:00:00+01:00By

The research comes as the market undergoes one of the fastest and most complex periods of change in its history

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The most common causes of claims in the aesthetics sector – and how to prevent them

2026-05-18T14:00:00+01:00By

‘The frequency and the severity of claims’ in ‘a very litigious’ sector can be mitigated through ‘effective, proactive risk management’, says MGA’s head of legal and risk management

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Biba 2026: AI developments reinforcing the need for preventative cyber insurance

2026-05-18T13:00:00+01:00By

‘What we see now with agentic AI is that in the same way it helps any UK business run better and have more scale, it gives the threat actors faster scale too,’ says managing director

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