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As sharks circle, who gets swallowed in insurance consolidation?

2025-09-18T07:00:00+01:00By

‘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

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Opinion: Are micro firms buying commercial covers like a personal lines customer?

2025-09-17T08:00:00+01:00By

Market feedback has revealed that micro businesses of less than 10 staff could fall victim to buying commercial covers with a personal lines mindset, risking underinsurance and coverage gaps – how can the sector mitigate this?

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Clean energy revolution facing extreme weather challenge

2025-09-17T07:00:00+01:00By Tim Evershed

’These are perils that we haven’t really taken seriously in the past, given the emphasis on the US market, and now there are increasingly unmodeled events,’ says underwriter

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Tomorrow’s insurance leaders will come from overlooked places

2025-09-15T07:00:00+01:00By

‘To look for new talent, we need to explore avenues we’ve never explored and that includes both ends of the socioeconomic spectrum,’ says chief executive

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Briefing: Winds of change blow in Monaco, but have reinsurers really gone soft?

2025-09-10T08:00:00+01:00By

Will reinsurers move back to assuming broader treaty risks, or will insurers have to place their programmes on a class by class basis?

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Ozempic confusion putting travel insurance at risk for thousands

2025-09-09T07:00:00+01:00By

‘This confusion isn’t academic, it has real consequences for millions of Britons purchasing travel and health insurance,’ says chief executive

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Tariff-linked supply chain disruptions ‘worse than Covid’, complicating business interruption

2025-09-05T07:00:00+01:00By

’The problems that these businesses are now having to solve are ones of financial and economic assessment that interfere with the supply and demand curve, rather than ones of physical production and distribution capacity,’ says head

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Briefing: Sector has long road ahead to ensure inclusivity of vulnerability

2025-09-03T08:00:00+01:00By

Adam Harper, the Chartered Insurance Institute’s executive director of strategy, advocacy and professional standards, discusses the importance of identifying and addressing vulnerability

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In Focus: The impending ‘peril’ of underinvesting in reinsurance talent

2025-09-03T07:00:00+01:00By

‘The real issue isn’t that reinsurance is too niche – it’s that we’ve failed to communicate its relevance and impact,’ says chief commercial officer

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Motor insurance switching reaches historic low – are GIPP rules finally making an impact?

2025-09-02T07:00:00+01:00By

Over three years on from the introduction of the FCA’s GIPP rules, their impact may seem underwhelming, but is the scrapping of the “loyalty penalty” finally starting to have an effect on consumer behaviour?

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UKGI market returns to underwriting profit as expense management pays dividends

2025-09-01T06:00:00+01:00By

Market intelligence firm pinpoints the best performing business lines in UKGI, while warning that the ‘diverging fortunes’ between firms’ expense and loss ratios can make or break sustainable profitability

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In Focus: How should middle manager development into c-suite be prioritised and delivered?

2025-08-28T07:00:00+01:00By

With the industry’s war for talent often focused on attracting young, new talent into the marketplace, has specific training to fulfil c-suite succession vacuums by promoting middle managers fallen by the wayside? Industry professionals share their views…

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