News Analysis – Page 86
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Briefing: How bad could coronavirus claims get for insurers?
Insurance has been holding up well - but there are some real risks
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US businesses seek to use damage trigger for business interruption claim pay outs
With Lloyd’s underwriters heavily invested in the US domestic property market, could upcoming lawsuits impact the UK business interruption sector?
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Aviva, RSA, Direct Line and Hiscox suspend dividend payments amid Covid-19
The uncertainty over the duration of Covid-19 has left many insurers unable to forecast a clear outlook for 2020
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Morrisons wins landmark liability ruling for employee data breach
A clear case for covering exposures as good risk management has been highlighted
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IT Interview
Ex-Jelf boss Phil Barton aims to build ‘next generation’ broking business
Insurance Times spoke to new Partners& chief executive Phil Barton to hear his plans for the future of the business and why he thinks the broking industry is in need of a reset
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Briefing: Insurers reputations are tarnished - a debate on pandemic cover is urgent
The self-employed and SMEs should be at the forefront of the debate
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Revealed: The one thing insurers can do to give zest to e-trade service for brokers
Insurance Times etrade survey reveals one etrade function would provide a huge boost to brokers
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Opinion: Playing the Covid-19 blame game
Brokerbility chairman Ashwin Mistry defends the insurance industry amid a flurry of bad press
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The Briefing – UK Claims Reforms: How does the industry feel about the LiP portal deadline extension?
Four industry experts share their views on what they think the effect will be of the Litigants in Person (LiP) portal deadline being pushed back from April to August
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Could Google's chatbot overhaul the insurance market?
Technological advances in artificial intelligence like Google Meena claim to be more sophisticated than today’s chatbots in conversational complexity, but what value does it bring to the insurance industry?
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Poor data hampering FSCS from tracing customers of collapsed unrated insurers
In some cases, it has taken two years for insurers to identify customers to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme
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Chapman & Stacey reassures broker partners its services will continue fully
Chapman & Stacey’s managing director Paul Wingfield talks to Insurance Times’s Savan Shah as the Covid-19 pandemic continues and its staff remote work to continue providing a full service to its broker partners
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Government support for self-employed hit by Covid-19 brings relief to insurers
The chancellor of exchequer’s new financial measures for the self-employed may come as a relief to some, but what about those that do not meet the eligibility criteria?
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Some brokers could struggle placing policies during Covid-19 says Peter Staddon
Insurance Times’s Savan Shah speaks to the MGAA’s outgoing managing director about the impact of Covid-19 on its members as well as the relevance of our MGA survey
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Inside the cyber market with Sayata Labs’s Kingsley Flynn
Flynn says the market is still dogged by past perceptions of how restrictive and confusing cyber policies were in the early days of the product coming to market
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Every broker has differences in trading style says Zurich's Dave Martin
The Insurance Times 2020 eTrading star ratings will be available from the 2 April, Dave Martin head of retail management at Zurich Insurance says the firms underwriting expertise is the ’heart of Zurich’ as he discusses the service factors being investigated in the Insurance Times star ratings
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Coronavirus ‘social distancing’ measures hits gig economy as service demands rise
As the UK goes into lockdown to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the insurtech industry has responded to support gig economy workers
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Working from home hard to implement for some businesses during Covid-19
In a briefing last week, Marsh also revealed the four areas that businesses should prioritise during this global outbreak including regular communication with staff
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Brokers need to beware ‘breach of duty’ risks arising from Covid-19 impacts
Law firm Plexus Law advises brokers to ‘pay attention in this changing market’
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Crawford’s Lisa Bartlett on taking the reins as president
Bartlett talks about taking over from Clive Nicholls and why she’s a passionate advocate of diversity