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Insurance Times Awards 2025: Markel builds in PI cover to construction product
Mark Plews, director of underwriting at Markel, discusses his firm’s entry to the excellence in underwriting category
Markel launches construction and engineering practice with three senior hires
’Markel’s new construction and engineering practice will allow us to go beyond our well-established operational risk policies,’ says managing director
Markel International hires managing director for new London market business
’We’ll build a business that continues to deliver profitable growth and lasting relationships,’ says appointee
Insurance Times Awards 2025: Markel makes its case for Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year
Jo Sykes, Markel’s divisional director for broker and ATE in the UK, talks about the company’s submission for the Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year category
Insurance Times Awards 2025: Markel Law delivers 100% instruction uplift and impressive NPS score
Deborah Nicholson, partner, crime and regulatory at Markel Law, talks about the company’s submission for the Claims Partner of the Year category
Insurance Times Awards 2025: Markel tackles broker pain points with integrated PI solution
Martin Parker, head of construction at Markel, talks about the company’s submission for the Challenger of the Year category
Retroactive reckoning: Construction PI faces its 30-year shadow
‘Developers thought projects from 20 years ago were long tail – now they’re live liabilities again,’ says managing partner
Top 50 Insurers 2025: Insurers warn against losing human judgment in AI race
‘AI isn’t going to replace the talents of underwriters anytime soon – having a human in the loop is essential,’ says chief underwriting officer
Top 50 Insurers: HCC International tops 2025 Underwriting Gold Awards
Insurance DataLab has done the number crunching to reveal which underwriters have excelled in the UK, Gibraltar and Lloyd’s marketplaces – with Insurance Times exclusively revealing the findings
In Focus: Should insurers give brokers more ownership of coverage points when eTrading?
Are insurers taking on board broker advice and expertise when it comes to digitally placing commercial lines risks, or are eTrading processes blocking this type of collaboration? Insurance Times asks industry experts to find out…
Lee Mooney: New UK boss gearing up to ‘change the pace’ at Markel
Rather than ‘reinvent the wheel’, managing director plans to tap into global group expertise to increase insurer’s ‘share of wallet’ with brokers and ‘dial up the pace’ on product and people volume
Jo Sykes: Markel UK devises five pillar plan to become ‘more relevant’ for brokers
Among the insurer’s key focuses for the next five years is developing further schemes propositions, building out its eTrading strategy and improving its regional distribution network
Mark Plews: ‘Proactive’ risk management is ‘an increasing part’ of Markel UK’s service for care sector
Insurer is determined ‘to highlight that it is [a] false saving to reduce investment [on] risk management’, says underwriting director
Jo Sykes: Markel UK set ‘to invest in future growth’ for 2025
In particular, schemes with brokers will be a ‘focus’ for the ‘end-to-end’ insurer next year, says divisional director
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