News Analysis – Page 153
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Online onlyAnalysis: Tory-led exit from EU ‘could hurt trade’
Uncertainty over future of UK’s EU membership could give potential partners jitters
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Online onlyAnalysis: Moorhouse add-on fine serves as a warning for small brokers
The FCA is placing increased scrutiny on how brokers sell add-on insurance products – cases such as Moorhouse and Swinton illustrate the cost of failing to meet FCA requirements
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Online onlyQ&A: what’s the future for commercial lines?
Insurance Times asked some of the best minds in commercial lines broking about the challenges, opportunities and trends facing brokers already in commercial lines and those who want to enter the market. Cyber and micro-SMEs are among the biggest trends on the horizon
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Online onlyAnalysis: CMA motor probe tops rocky year for sector
Curbing the compensation culture was the key target for regulators over past 12 months
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Online onlyThe Knowledge: On-shoring, a way to end supply chain woes
Repatriating some activities for business reasons can reduce geopolitical threats to a stretched supply chain, but it won’t help avoid reputational risks closer to home
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Online onlyAnalysis: Networks evolve to safeguard future role
Networks are working more collaboratively with insurers and striving to meet members’ demands and, as more new brokers come into the sector, networks appear an obvious choice
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Online onlyAnalysis: Motor insurers deliver on claims
The increased focus by the industry on improving service to customers is having results but retails brands have more to lose when things go wrong, so try harder to satisfy policyholders
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Online onlyAnalysis: PRA returns reveal more commercial lines losses
Insurance Times has analysed the PRA returns of seven of the biggest insurers in UK GI. Who came out on top, and which commercial book of business is proving to be the biggest headache for insurers?
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Online onlyAnalysis: Aviva’s big Friends Life gamble
The merger is expected to achieve more than the mooted £225m cost savings, with 1,500 jobs likely to go but concerns remain over the creation of UK insurance giant with 16 million customers
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AgendaThe Knowledge – client action needed on supply chains as risk grows
More than 40% of brokers surveyed say they have clients that have suffered supply chain interruption over the past year, while fewer than half have taken out insurance to cover the growing risk
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AgendaAnalysis: Who will lead new broker M&A era?
With Gallagher and Towergate, once the dominant force in UK broking M&A, inactive, smaller players are expected to move into the mid-market
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Online onlyInterview: Homer, Cullum and Margrett's plans for 'Towergate II'
In their first interview since joining forces at Global Risk Partners, Peter Cullum, Andy Homer and David Margrett talk about their ambitions to build a new Towergate, but better
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AgendaSpecial Report: Innovation and Disruption
There’s big change coming to the insurance industry and at the inaugural Insurance Times Innovation and Disruption Conference, held in London on 28 April, expert panellists from both inside and outside insurance gave their opinions on how and where change will be coming from.
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Online onlyNIG just beats Aviva, LV= and Allianz as brokers' favourite e-trader
Insurance Times publishes its first comprehesive research into industry e-trading, with NIG, Acturis, Aviva, LV= and Allianz among best performers ranked by 261 brokers surveyed
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AgendaAnalysis: Insurer 50 – we must embrace customer criticism
Publishing online reviews of claims experiences could help build trust between customers and insurers. But despite anxiety in some quarters, delegates were told even bad reviews can have positive results
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AgendaAnalysis: Where next for loss adjuster rivals after the Crawford/Gab deal?
Consolidation looms among loss adjusters as volume of work falls and market changes
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Online onlyVideo: The Knowledge Live - Spotlight on Claims
Watch our video from the latest instalment of The Knowledge Live from Glasgow
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AgendaThe Knowledge: Supply chain interruption – an underinsured risk
In the modern world of complex supply chains, traditional business interruption insurance is no longer enough. While insurers are starting to provide more sophisticated products, take-up remains slow
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AgendaAnalysis: Is insurance becoming a political football?
Five years ago, insurance barely registered on the radar of the then-new coalition government. Since then, the industry has seen more change than in the 1980s – with more likely to come
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Online onlyInterview: Amanda Blanc - a lesson in getting things done
Recently tipped for the Towergate top seat that went to David Ross, AXA’s commercial lines and personal intermediary boss still has unfinished business with the French insurer
