Insurer Analysis – Page 50
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Underinsurance – 43% of small businesses lack adequate storm insurance cover
One year on from the floods that hit the UK, many small business remain vulnerable to the winter weather
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Online onlyExpert View: Are you ready for the empowered customer?
Guidewire’s product marketing manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa, on how the insurance industry must meet the demands of the modern consumer
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AgendaInsurers unite as fraudsters switch to commercial lines
Fraudsters have been targeting commercial lines following crackdowns on personal lines crime. Now insurers are taking steps to share data in the hope of preventing commercial fraud exploding
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Online onlyWho is the UK's favourite insurer?
RSA is the most improved motor insurer in customer satisfaction survey, while RAC is biggest faller
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Underinsurance – When cover doesn't meet cost
Being underinsured can be costly for any business when it come to a claim. It falls to brokers to ensure clients have enough cover
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AgendaBattle to control Towergate hots up
With the clock running for Towergate to find a buyer, there is a growing potential for clashes between secured and unsecured bondholders
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Avoiding underinsurance in a buyer’s market
As an improving economy encourages SMEs and homeowners to buy more insurance, they can demand better terms, such as the waiving of condition of average clauses
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Cyber risk market set to boom
Evolving risks such as cyber liability and environmental liability are creating gaps in the insurance market.Deloitte insurance partner Mark Mcllquham says “there are a lot of innovative products that brokers are designing”.“I’ve heard of Ebola protection products coming into the market for instance; the market continues ...
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Online onlyHow the IUA plans to keep the London market relevant in 2015
Chief executive David Matcham lists the trade association’s priorities to Insurance Times’s sister publication GR
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Schemes and specialisms set to boom this year
Customer demand will drive brokers to become more innovative in 2015, working with insurers to design specialist schemes and products for new and emerging risks.Managing general agency (MGA) UK General’s schemes managing director Karen Beales said brokers’ ability to identify and sell to niche customers was ...
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – SMEs boom, but can they sustain it?
As the UK economy bounces back, brokers are looking to small businesses to generate organic growth. But is the recovery losing momentum and is growth more likely to come from acquisition in the short term?
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: Growth – Customer growth and prices key
Competition that drove premiums down unlikely to be a factor as economy recovers and customers return
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The KnowledgeStopping application fraud at the door
One in five motor insurance applications contain ‘an element of contention’, according to the AA. Now the ABI is determined to calculate an accurate figure for the cost of application fraud
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NewsThe new-look Pool Re: what you need to know
The Insurance Times guide to the planned changes to the terrorism reinsurance scheme
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Online onlyRevealed: The incredible story of collapsed unrated insurer Millburn
From the collapsed banking system of Cyprus to the Comoros Islands off East Africa, an Insurance Times investigation reveals all on the first insurer to fall on the PRA’s watch
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Online onlyAre Gibraltar insurers over-reliant on ancillary income?
Insurance Times study shows that some insurers see big swings in COR if non-risk income is removed
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Online onlyIs the London insurance market doomed?
London’s commercial insurance market is still the world’s biggest, but Insurance Times’s sister publication GR finds that questions remain about its future
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AgendaBriefing: Towergate in crisis – the endgame is approaching
With the news that Gallagher has stopped placing new business with the troubled consolidator, a deal to sort out the business is now more pressing than ever
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Online onlyLaurent Matras: Embracing data at AXA
The insurer’s personal lines intermediary managing director Laurent Matras enthuses about its strategy and the use of data to improve underwriting
