All In Focus articles – Page 5
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AnalysisIn Focus: How broker schemes are navigating the FCA’s fair value focus
The regulator’s pricing reform, which includes product governance requirements, raises industry questions about whether broker schemes offer fair value to customers
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AnalysisIn Focus: How buoyant is capacity in the HNW market post-pandemic?
Industry experts debate capacity in the high net worth (HNW) sector following the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and a slew of pricing regulation from the FCA
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AnalysisIn Focus: Ex-Love Islander’s burglary reawakens HNW underinsurance and social media risks debate
Brokers have a key role in advising clients about the dangers of sharing details of their valuables on social media, as well as helping to prevent underinsurance
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AnalysisIn Focus: How can the insurance industry tackle ghost broking?
Experts on insurance fraud debate how the industry can tackle the ongoing issue of ghost broking in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
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AnalysisIn Focus: E-scooter ‘grey area’ creates fraud potential
Claims figures for e-scooter collisions are trickling in, but the grey area surrounding the categorisation of this vehicle could open the gates to potential fraud
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AnalysisIn Focus: How will the increasing price yet declining availability of car parts affect the claims process?
Industry experts discuss how car part avaliability issues are affecting the claims process
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AnalysisIn Focus: Petrol crisis fuels interest in electric vehicles
The push towards a greener future will see electric vehicles increasingly come into play, but the insurance industry still has more to learn about this mode of transport
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FeaturesIn Focus: What are your concerns regarding the longevity and stability of capacity arrangements for MGAs?
Three industry experts discuss capacity arrangements in the MGA market, outlining innovative future options and current frustrations
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FeaturesIn Focus: Data is a ‘hygiene factor’ for MGAs, but claims handling lagging behind technological curve
The insurance industry is sitting on mountains of data – used wisely, it could be the silver bullet that makes an MGA successful
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NewsPeter Blanc: Opportunities await hungry MGAs
Aston Lark’s group chief executive told delegates at the MGAA conference that differentiating products and catering to a niche is the way forward for MGAs
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IT InterviewQ&A: Applied transforms its portfolio via Google partnership to aid brokers
Software evolution is seeing closed systems open up to benefit brokers. Stephen Murphy, director of customer success at Applied Systems Europe, explains how the technology firm is embracing this process to support broker innovation
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FeaturesIn Focus: The future of etrading – Broker management systems v extranets
With technology constantly evolving, Insurance Times takes a deep dive into the pros and cons of both insurer extranets and software house broker management systems
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FeaturesIn Focus: What features do brokers want to see on software platforms?
Industry commentators discuss what innovation they would like to see on broker software platforms
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FeaturesIn Focus: How will insurers take the BI test case ruling forward post-pandemic?
Industry experts debate how insurers might apply the FCA’s business interruption (BI) test case ruling in a post-pandemic era, as July marks one year since the High Court’s virtual hearing
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FeaturesIn Focus: Broker litigation ‘inevitable’ one year on from FCA’s BI test case
Brokers are ’still squeaky about whether they advised their customers correctly about the products they were buying’
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FeaturesIn Focus: How are broker schemes innovating to accommodate new risks?
Industry experts discuss the ways in which broker schemes are innovating to cover new risks, such as SMEs, e-scooters and short term rental accommodation
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FeaturesIn Focus: Hard market and Covid-19 brings brokers more schemes opportunities
Fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed schemes for SMEs up the agenda, with ’brokers looking at this closer than ever’
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FeaturesIn Focus: What are the most pressing issues for the insurance sector post-pandemic?
The four panel chairs of Biba’s upcoming annual conference in May discuss the most urgent challenges for the insurance industry, as well as explain what the trade body’s annual conference means to them
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FeaturesIn Focus: Biba’s Steve White commends broking industry for its resilience
Biba’s chief executive discusses upcoming challenges for brokers ahead of the trade body’s annual conference
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FeaturesIn Focus: New whiplash portal on the horizon – but are firms ready?
The countdown until the launch of the new Official Injury Claim portal has finally begun following February’s regulations – Insurance Times explores whether firms are operationally ready for the upcoming changes and what work is still left to do
