Insurer Interviews – Page 10
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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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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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AgendaCrane: taking LV= Broker into the fast lane
While other insurers are pulling out of the motor broker market, the boss of LV= Broker is going in the opposite direction and is looking forward to building relationships
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NewsAnalysis: Managing a new breed of terror risk: the Pool Re approach
Terrorism pool boss Julian Enoizi talks to our sister title GR about the future of the organisation and the risk it covers
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AgendaInterview: Mark Evans on how Direct Line plans to redefine ‘insurer’
After creating the direct market in the 1980s, Direct Line Group believes it is time for another revolution – with the insurer as a solver of customer problems.
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AgendaInterview: Allianz’s Neil Brettell - The personal touch
The insurer’s head of retail talks about the firm’s ambitious drive to achieve £3bn gross written premium by 2018 and how he intends to do it
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Online onlyInterview: Homer, Cullum and Margrett's plans for 'Towergate II'
In their first interview since joining forces at Global Risk Partners, Peter Cullum, Andy Homer and David Margrett talk about their ambitions to build a new Towergate, but better
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Online onlyInterview: Amanda Blanc - a lesson in getting things done
Recently tipped for the Towergate top seat that went to David Ross, AXA’s commercial lines and personal intermediary boss still has unfinished business with the French insurer
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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
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NewsIBSC chair under the spotlight
Six months in, IBSC chairman Paul Anscombe answers the tough questions everybody wants to know about the standards body
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NewsBoisseau: Leading Ageas through the motor minefield
Former Groupama UK boss François-Xavier Boisseau talks about the happy marriage with Ageas, his plans to bring something new to brokers, and why segments of the motor insurance industry could be heading for a fall
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FeaturesJulian James brings the world to brokers
Julian James wants Allied World Europe ‘to be more relevant’ as he looks to build on $2.7bn of written premium and expand the insurer beyond the UK and into Asia
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NewsSteve Lewis: Out of the frying pan, into the fire
Zurich’s former UK GI chief will face a number of challenges as RSA’s new UK and Western Europe head. Can he rise to them?
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Agenda'If it grows like a weed, it is a weed'
Hastings chief executive Gary Hoffman talks about the firm’s explosive growth and how the company will avoid the motor claims trap
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AgendaHester: fixing RSA one step at a time
He’s just axed 800 motor broker relationships and has raised much of the £1.5bn he needs to bolster RSA’s capital. What is next for group chief executive Stephen Hester on a journey to restore the insurer’s health?
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FeaturesIan Parker of ERS: We took a knife to a gun fight
The boss of the former Equity Red Star talks about where the company went wrong in the past – and how it plans to succeed by going back to its roots
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FeaturesMarsh’s Mark Weil: Always putting the customer first
Whether it’s acquisitions, building databases to enable better risk analysis, or contingent commissions, Marsh’s UK and Ireland chief executive Mark Weil always bears one question in mind: “What’s in it for the customer?”
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NewsAdrian Colosso: 'Howden is the last big English broker'
New Howden chief executive Adrian Colosso talks to Insurance Times about his return to the top in the industry and his plans for the broker
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NewsAiming high: Simon McGinn’s big plan to make Allianz No 1
The insurer’s UK general manager sets out his stall on how he intends to take the business to the top in five years
