The biggest people moves this week
Insurance Times rounds up the most significant appointments, departures and leadership changes from 12 to 16 January 2026
Markel eyes UK life sciences growth with new combined proposition
‘Life Science Combined is a key addition to our proposition suite. It will enable us to grow our presence in the sector and support our ambitious plans for 2026 and beyond,’ says managing director
Backchat: December 2025
A classy rebranding party with rugby theme, a special scent for new office digs, advent adverts land and market personality reveals second Santa linked job. What has the insurance industry been up to of late? You heard it here first…
Insurance Times Awards 2025: Finalists for the Specialist Insurer of the Year award
Six firms are competing for the Specialist Insurer of the Year award at this year’s Insurance Times Awards
Insurance Times Awards 2025: Why Markel is proud to insure the care sector
Joanne Sykes, divisional director of the UK broker at Markel, speaks about her firm’s entry for the Specialist Insurer of the Year award
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
Why Aviva, Ageas UK and Markel were named insurers of the year at 2025’s Insurance Times Awards
Insurance DataLabs provides the facts and figures behind the biggest insurer trophies at the Insurance Times Awards 2025
The Big Question: What will industry innovation for UKGI look like in 2026?
During 2025, artificial intelligence has quickly reshaped roles, processes and risk exposures – but what innovations and new technologies are UK general insurance participants expecting to land next year and what impact could they have on market practices?
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
In Focus: Should insurers give brokers more ownership of coverage points when eTrading?
Opinion: Are micro firms buying commercial covers like a personal lines customer?
In Focus: Why so many say ‘I fell into’ insurance – and why that’s changing
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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