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Informal communications in professional services create new risks – Hiscox
Q&A: Clegg Gifford apprentice on growing talent pipelines into insurance
Overcoming the barriers to usage-based insurance adoption – LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Why premium finance partnerships are key to broker resilience – Close Brothers
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On the mid‑tier squeeze – too big to exit, too small to absorb the shock
The mid-tier insurance arena has become a ‘no man’s land’ for firms too large to be nimble specialists and too small to achieved the industrialised efficiency of the global giants, says management consultant
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As sharks circle, who gets swallowed in insurance consolidation?
‘If you’re an insurer without scale and not a specialist, that middle ground is a difficult place to inhabit. I suspect some of those insurers will get squeezed in a soft market,’ says chief broking officer
Top 50 Brokers: Consolidation of the consolidators sees top 10 brokers stay in situ for 2025
Aggregate revenue across the top 10 brokers for 2025 was just over £13bn – an amount that summed up brokerage across the whole top 50 brokers list in 2023 – as leaders of the broker pack double down on M&A investments to solidify earnings
Briefing: Roman generals, rusty swords and the likely broker re-independence agenda
Toby Clegg dwells on some potentially indicative market chatter to ask whether the next M&A trend may not be further consolidation, but a surge in re-independence
Briefing: Ifed is taking the fight to travel insurance fraudsters
City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department head Nik Jethwa describes the force’s efforts to tackle criminality targeting travel insurers
Steven Darrah: Really Honest on ‘changing the narrative around insurance’ transparency
Following its May 2026 rebrand, the broker founder and chief executive says the business was ‘born out of a continued frustration with the insurance industry’ and has ‘jumped in with both feet’ to operate with transparency and accountability
Ant Middle: How Ageas UK is standing out in a tough personal lines market
’For us, being a specialist, scaled player is where we can really stand out,’ says chief executive
Insurance sector still scratching head over ‘muddy’ emerging risk of intellectual property, cyber and general liability cross-section – Lockton
Risk managers could face policy exclusions arising from ‘complicated’ emerging risk cross-section, however broker senior vice-president ringfences geopolitical challenges as the risk community’s most pressing concern in 2026
Briefing: Can mutuals regain our interest?
Why are there so few mutual insurance companies in the UK market – and what would have to change for the market to support the creation of more?
Briefing: What must not be lost as insurance quotes emerge on ChatGPT
Briefing: Brokers are feeling the AI pain as questions come thick and fast
TechTalk: AI washing creates ‘massive expectation gap’ across insurance provision and liability
David Aslin: Human touch in a digital market – why Lumara is betting on relationships
Briefing: The price of expertise in professional services
Briefing: Roman generals, rusty swords and the likely broker re-independence agenda
Briefing: Ifed is taking the fight to travel insurance fraudsters
Insurance sector still scratching head over ‘muddy’ emerging risk of intellectual property, cyber and general liability cross-section – Lockton
Has corporate consolidation broken the pet insurance model?
Briefing: Can mutuals regain our interest?
Retaining talent requires the industry to address ‘experience shortage’
Opinion: Coaching versus leadership – How you listen can steer your business
David Nichols: Zurich UK’s ‘best ideas’ driven by broker engagement
Jon Walker: Crafting restructured Axa Insurance UK to be ‘bigger, broader, bolder’ in next three-year strategic cycle
World Cup 2026 opens goal to ‘single point of failure’ cyber risks
World Cup windfall or claims headache? Hospitality’s summer surge puts insurers on alert
Briefing: What must not be lost as insurance quotes emerge on ChatGPT
Claims and customer outcomes reshape insurer placement decisions
Briefing: Brokers are feeling the AI pain as questions come thick and fast
TechTalk: AI washing creates ‘massive expectation gap’ across insurance provision and liability
David Aslin: Human touch in a digital market – why Lumara is betting on relationships
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