News Analysis – Page 142
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AgendaAnalysis: High net worth brokers face threat of insurers going direct
The inaugural Insurance Times High Net Worth Broking conference hears that, with insurers like Hiscox ‘cutting out the middle man’, and high capacity driving rates down, brokers have to consider what added value they can bring to the market
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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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AgendaAnalysis: Brokers ‘confused’ about cyber and fear mis-selling
Cyber Charter delegates say brokers find it hard to understand emerging cyber risks, while US cyber experience is adding to confusion as UK market suffers different kind of claims
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NewsAnalysis: Keeping up with the messenger generation
From Facebook Messenger to Hero, messaging apps aimed at business offer insurers and brokers a new way to interact with clients, particularly tech-savvy millennials. But will the industry seize the opportunity?
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Online onlyMarch 2016 issue
Read a digital version of the March 2016 edition of Insurance Times. Cover story: How Mark Cliff plans to fix Brightside Data and analytics are key to growth for the big four brokers London Market takes on challengers Data is giving brokers the tools to cut out ...
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NewsAnalysis: Naming UK storms could complicate (re)insurance claims
Now all our storms have names, are they separate events, or can they be aggregated? Lawyers from CMS Cameron McKenna look at the issues
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NewsAviva ordered to pay claimants’ legal bills for historic diesel spill
Court of Appeal disputed insurer’s assertion about other sources of contamination and claims that its client’s policy didn’t cover the spill
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Online onlyAnalysis: ‘If I was 24 I would get into insurance’
Former Virgin Galactic boss and disruptive business mentor Will Whitehorn talks innovation and insurance ahead of his keynote presentation at the Innovation and Disruption Conference 2016
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Online onlyBriefing: What Google Compare’s failure tells the insurance market
Google’s failure with its price comparison service is a watershed moment and a number of insights can be drawn
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NewsAnalysis: learning from the Tianjin blast
The insurance industry is grappling with one of the most complex claims events to hit China in years, with the Tianjin explosion also tipped to be the world’s largest man-made loss in 2015
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Online onlyMarsh hits Australian insurers with new charge
Clients could face premium hike as insurers look for ways to recover the additional costs
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NewsAnalysis: The FCA needs to know everything – even your driving convictions
The FCA’s rules on disclosure are strict, but there is still confusion about how much detail you need to tell the regulator to become an FCA authorised individual. Solicitors Geoffrey Miller managing director Jeanette Miller gives some guidance
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NewsQ&A: Ian Stutz on Brokerbility’s growth 10 years on
Managing director Ian Stutz speaks to Insurance Times about what has been fuelling members’ growth and how Brokerbility has been helping members in a competitive market
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AgendaAnalysis: MoJ Portal claims fall, but insurer respite may be short-lived
Drop in claims volumes is a sign that motor personal injury claims market is stabilising at last. But latest reforms by Chancellor George Osborne could lead to a new spike in claims
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NewsBriefing: Google buying AIG? No way, but …
Citigroup analysts have suggested that the tech giant should buy troubled insurer AIG
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NewsAnalysis: How motor insurers are making consumers happy
The motor insurance industry almost doubled its net promoter score in 2015 – and this shows that insurers are serving customers well, says Consumer Intelligence
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AgendaAnalysis: Ash Bathia takes Lloyd’s to the world
Probitas 1492 chief executive Ash Bathia has big plans for the Lloyd’s syndicate, not least a focus on emerging markets in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa
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NewsBriefing: Finding growth in a difficult broking market
The questions facing Gallagher, now its acquisition-led strategy has slowed
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NewsLawyers fail to reach agreement in Gallagher court order against MGA
Mrs Justice Slade said her judgement was unlikely to produce the “perfect order”
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NewsGallagher seeks court order against MGA
Gallagher wants an injunction in dispute over confidential information use
