Insurer Analysis – Page 44
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Online onlyPRA Returns: DLG best performer in personal motor
Motor was once again the worst performing personal business line, with all but two of the insurers falling to an underwriting loss in 2015. On aggregate, the seven insurers studied reported an overall COR of 102.4%, despite reserve releases improving the current year COR by 14 ...
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NewsHas Allianz killed off the average clause?
Up to 40% of small businesses are underinsured, according to the FCA. Now Allianz says it will remove the average clause from SME policies. Will other insurers follow suit?
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NewsAnalysis: MCE’s underwriting division struggles with claims costs
Despite strong sales, motorcycle insurers’ combined operating ratio hit 147.5% to May 2015, and extra cash has been pumped in to strengthen its capital base
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AgendaPRA Returns: Insurers struggle for profit in shrinking market
Only Ageas and AXA reported profitable commercial combined operating ratios, thanks to reserve releases
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Online onlyPRA Returns: Ageas top commercial liability performer
Ageas reported a highly profitable COR of 79.2% for its liability book after reserve releases added 17.1 points. Direct Line Group was the only other insurer analysed to report a 2015 underwriting profit for its commercial liability book with significant reserve releases knocking 46.6 percentage points ...
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Online onlyMay 2016 issue
Cover story: Commercial lines profitability continues to elude UK’s top insurers
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AgendaAllianz was best performer in commercial motor in 2015
Commercial motor was the most profitable line of business in 2015, with three of the seven insurers reporting an underwriting profit. The best performing insurer of the year was Allianz, with a 93.5% COR after releasing reserves that knocked 3.4 percentage points off its current year ...
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NewsAnalysis: Insurers come together for micro insurance market
Asking traditional competitors to work together presented teething problems at first, but now the Blue Marble Microinsurance consortium of eight insurers is in a position to tackle the market’s bigger issues, writes sister publication Global Reinsurance
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NewsQ&A: Chris Voller on how AXA is transforming its claims service
AXA is transforming its claims service to enable customers to manage their claims online from the moment they report it to the insurer to the point the claim is settled. This plans are part of a wider initiative by AXA to improve transparency around claims. Between ...
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NewsUnrated Gable battles to build broker trust
Unrated Liechtenstein-based insurer Gable has had a tough time recently. Its share price is down 88% from its 87.25p peak in 2014, and profitability has suffered as it has worked to close the gap between the reserves it holds and what actuaries think it should hold. ...
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News'Nobody is prepared to say the unpopular things' - Amanda Blanc
AXA’s Amanda Blanc was voted Insurance Times’s Insurer CEO’s CEO of the year for the second time in 2015 Here she talks about her passion for claims, innovation and concerns over broking business models There’s a moment at the Insurance ...
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Online onlyApril 2016 issue
Read a digital version of the April 2016 edition of Insurance Times. Cover story: How the internet is killing off the high street broker; Towergate’s future clarifies; Unrated Gable battles to build broker trust; McKenzie Friends – the new cash cow for CMCs?; Insurers are learning on claims, says ABI; ...
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NewsMike Bruce and GRP hit back against Bluefin accusations
Bluefin, GRP and Mike Bruce have filed papers at the High Court
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AgendaAnalysis: High net worth brokers face threat of insurers going direct
The inaugural Insurance Times High Net Worth Broking conference hears that, with insurers like Hiscox ‘cutting out the middle man’, and high capacity driving rates down, brokers have to consider what added value they can bring to the market
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AgendaAnalysis: How Clayden and QBE are turning claims into a science
The insurer’s European operations claims director discusses the data-led changes coming to the insurance industry, CMCs, and how insurers need to change adversarial attitudes to claims
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Online onlyMarch 2016 issue
Read a digital version of the March 2016 edition of Insurance Times. Cover story: How Mark Cliff plans to fix Brightside Data and analytics are key to growth for the big four brokers London Market takes on challengers Data is giving brokers the tools to cut out ...
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NewsAnalysis: Naming UK storms could complicate (re)insurance claims
Now all our storms have names, are they separate events, or can they be aggregated? Lawyers from CMS Cameron McKenna look at the issues
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AgendaAnalysis: Ash Bathia takes Lloyd’s to the world
Probitas 1492 chief executive Ash Bathia has big plans for the Lloyd’s syndicate, not least a focus on emerging markets in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa
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NewsLawyers fail to reach agreement in Gallagher court order against MGA
Mrs Justice Slade said her judgement was unlikely to produce the “perfect order”
