All Insurance Times articles in issue 21 October 2015
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Analysis: Apps – the next big thing for insurers
Insurance industry disrupters are looking at how mobile apps could streamline the claims process
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Analysis: The Knowledge – SME risk: the waste and recycling wording gap
Capacity slowly improves for the beleaguered waste and recycling sector as brokers and adjusters seek to provide bespoke policies
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Analysis: The Knowledge Survey – SMEs' underinsurance problem
Brokers say small businesses focus too much on price and not enough on details and scope of cover
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Analysis: Aggregators take bigger bite of home insurance market
Almost three-quarters of customers are shopping around at renewal, figures show, and clever marketing and cuddly toy giveaways have helped aggregators make market inroads
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Analysis: The Knowledge – cyber attacks on SMEs show downward trend
While fewer small business suffered a cyber attack in 2014, it remains a large problem
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Analysis: Poor grasp of cyber risk leaves businesses vulnerable
Few UK companies are aware enough of the growing threat to have cyber insurance, and some brokers are not selling cyber cover simply because they don’t understand the risk
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Revealed: the turmoil engulfing Brightside
Technology platform write-off made up £24.8m of broker’s £45.2m overall pre-tax loss. Private equity owner AnaCap granted £22.5m interest-free loans to help it through difficulties
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Interview: The Apprentice winner helping Be Wiser beat the aggregators
Be Wiser’s chief executive turned to Mark Wright when he needed an expert to push his company up the Google ratings
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The Knowledge: Flood – The People
Find out what four industry players have to say about the flooding risk
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Towergate’s small business unit facing tough times
Broking group reluctant to discuss first-year performance of unit, blamed for ‘material disruption’ to the broking business in 2014
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The Knowledge Expert View: SME claims – a study in good outcomes
Jason Eatock, Head of SME and Adrian Spencer, Commercial Broker and Claims Services Director on providing SMEs with good service
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21 October 2015 issue
Read a digital version of the 21 October 2015 edition of Insurance Times. Cover story: Fixing Brightside; Tough claims market hits Crawford; Apps - the next big thing?; Poor grasp of cyber leaves businesses vulnerable; Aggregators take a bigger slice of home insurance; Insurers’ profits under pressure; Friends and family ...