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Overcoming the barriers to usage-based insurance adoption – LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
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
‘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
’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’
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
Managing director says move is an ‘important milestone’
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Green shoots in packages and specialist segments amid commercial lines premium slump
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
‘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
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
‘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
‘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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Biba 2026: Commercial insurance is too complex to automate but AI can still transform it
’We will always need underwriters, because we need underwriters to make the decision,’ says managing director of commercial and chief distribution officer
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Biba 2026: Pen Underwriting seeking continued product expansion in a ‘topsy turvy market’ – Tom Downey
’Our teams are closer to the brokers and closer to the customers, so they know what they need to do,’ says chief executive
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