Insurance Times rounds up the biggest stories from this week

Starting off the week, technology editor Clare Ruel spoke to Theo Duchen about eTrading complex insurance products.

Then, Jon Guy spoke to SJL Insurance about its growth plans.

Following this, junior reporter Chantal Kapani spoke to Markel about having the right people picking up broker phone calls.

And then, news editor James Cowen assesed if the cyber market is prepared for BI claims following July’s global outage.

Rounding off the week, Ruel spoke to Chris Newton about Send Technology’s focus on ”solving real world problems for underwriters”.

The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.

Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.