High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 9 to 13 November 2026
Microsoft 'not aware' of malicious activity as it scrambles to solve global outage
’At this time, we are not aware of any malicious activity causing this incident,’ says Microsoft
Aviva’s UK personal lines book soars while commercial GWP drops in first nine months of 2026
’In the UK, premiums are up 28%, boosted by our home insurance partnership with Nationwide and the great progress we are making with DLG,’ says chief executive
Ageas reveals early feedback after launching new ChatGPT proposition
In October 2026, Ageas launched direct car insurance quoting on ChatGPT for customers through its Esure brand
LMA launches executive programme for future female underwriting leaders
’Leadership Futures has been specifically designed to address the challenges faced by senior female underwriters as they navigate the transition into executive leadership,’ says chief executive
Aviva promotes Owen to managing director of UK commercial and APC
’She has a strong track record of leading and growing businesses at Aviva and will bring a fresh perspective to UK commercial, while building on the momentum already underway,’ says chief executive
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Briefing: AI needs to supercharge better regulation
James York explores how artificial intelligence could transform the relationship between firms and the regulator to make the case for an ‘Open Regulation’ regime
Risk professionals want to know: Will insurance survive, thrive or die?
Insurer leaders took to the plenary stage at Rotterdam’s Ferma Forum 2026 event in October, providing an array of thought provoking stances on the risk and insurance industry’s status quo, direction of travel and which pivots are central to sector futureproofing
Mario Greco: Zurich and Beazley integration is ‘about building something that doesn’t exist’
Fridge cyber attack turns up heat on demand for cyber triggered physical damage cover
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Alwyn leads six-strong cohort of Insurance DataLab’s Recommended Insurers
Mario Greco: Zurich and Beazley integration is ‘about building something that doesn’t exist’
The group chief executive’s ‘vision’ to become ‘the biggest specialty player in the market’ is in response to ‘a huge shift in customers’ demand’ for these types of products – with Beazley deal signifying the cherry on top of Greco’s ambitions
Russell White: Peach set to become main driver of premium across NPA Insurance
’Peach will become more than 50% of the insurance company premium across all of NPA Insurance,’ says chief executive
Scott Egan: SiriusPoint ready to redeploy capital as market softens
Chief executive says four years of turnaround work have put SiriusPoint on stronger footing with cedants and ratings agencies
Matt Cox: Turning claims into a strategic asset at Allianz UK requires a 'mindset shift'
’This year’s pivot, from January onwards, has been to figure out how we maximise the benefit and the assets that we’ve got, as well as how we recognise claims itself as a strategic asset in the whole of the insurance cycle,’ says chief claims officer
Kelly Madeley: Industry must ‘make insurance exciting’ to attract talent
Aviva refuses ‘to chase unprofitable’ commercial lines business amid soft market as GWP tumbles 4% in HY results – Jason Storah
Charles Bush: Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up
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