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Top 50 Insurers 2026: Aviva retains table title despite GWP dip

2026-10-15T08:00:00+01:00By

Insurance Times content director Katie Scott reviews the headline findings of this year’s Top 50 Insurers report, flagging where firms are winning, losing – and battling the soft market

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Top 50 Insurers 2026: Berkshire Hathaway International tops IDL’s 2026 underwriting gold awards

2026-10-14T07:00:00+01:00By

Market intelligence firm Insurance DataLab confirms which businesses in the UK, Gibraltar and Lloyd’s marketplaces have outperformed in terms of underwriting, showcasing a variety of paths to profitability among the insurer cohort

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‘It’s not about robots’ – Zurich says technology should remove friction, not judgement

2026-10-13T07:00:00+01:00By

Insurance Times’ latest webinar with Zurich explored how insurers can use technology to deliver faster, more efficient trading without sacrificing underwriting judgement, broker relationships or the human element of claims

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Top 50 Insurers 2026: What size really says about underwriting performance

2026-10-09T07:00:00+01:00By

Scale is a trump card that often sees insurers succeed in the annual Top 50 Insurers ranking, however financial figures analysed by Insurance DataLab reveal that there is more to the underwriting performance story than meets the eye

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Aviva looks to ‘re-seed’ talent across its UK broker programmes

2026-10-08T07:00:00+01:00By

’We’re trying to create a cycle of re-seeding talent and experience through our programmes,’ says broker propositions lead

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TechTalk: When AI becomes the front door to insurance, who decides what's inside?

2026-10-05T07:00:00+01:00By

As AI platforms become a new route into insurance, the industry faces a critical question – when a chatbot recommends a policy, can customers tell where information ends, advice begins and commercial influence starts?

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Briefing: When more care is possible, what care is right?

2026-09-30T08:00:00+01:00By

Sharon Brown, founder and chief executive at the Pet and Equine Insurance Association (Peia), questions whether the insurance sector’s approach to increasing limits has become part of the problem

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TechTalk: Vibe-coding could leave insurers ‘crashing on the rocks’

2026-09-30T07:00:00+01:00By

The ’biggest misconception’ about vibe-coding in the market is that ‘AI-generated code reduces the need for governance’, says head of emerging technology risk

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In Focus: Can cyber insurance keep up with AI?

2026-09-29T07:00:00+01:00By

AI is rapidly changing the nature and scale of cyber threats, raising questions over whether insurers have the data, modelling and policy wordings needed to accurately assess, price and cover risks that are evolving faster than the market itself

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The Big Question: Are specialist commercial lines the answer to soft market rate pressure?

2026-09-25T07:00:00+01:00By

As the appetite for specialist lines grows, industry experts discuss what is underpinning the shift in the commercial market – and how specialism could be the missing link to standing out and beating rate competition in soft market conditions

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Claims performance emerges as a key battleground for broker loyalty

2026-09-24T07:00:00+01:00By

New claims data from Insurance DataLab shows that brokers are increasingly souring on insurers that provide them with poor claims outcomes

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Briefing: Forget escape, it’s water itself we need to start insuring

2026-09-23T09:00:00+01:00By

Persistent drought and the UK water sector’s instability raise important questions for the sector around the potential provision of new products

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