Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 16 to 20 March 2026
This week’s most popular story was Gallagher’s appointment of a new chief commercial officer for its specialty division.
Angela James, who will not join the firm until early 2027, will ”drive the commercial strategy and growth of the division”.
Insurance Times readers were also keen to read about Seventeen Group’s acquisition of Citrus Healthcare and Smith England Insurance Brokers. The Kent and Cheadle-based brokers have a combined gross written premium (GWP) of £12m and will join James Hallam, Seventeen Group’s UK retail division.
Markel hit the headlines for two senior appointments aimed at boosting its UK broker distribution and change capability.
Joanne Foreman takes the role of head of broker change, while Laura Fox has been appointed head of distribution strategy.
Readers’ interests were also piqued by the news that recently launched MGA Loxa has completed a £2.7m fundraising seed round. The firm said “capital will be deployed to drive expansion across Europe, scale the retail network and broaden the platform to support every insurable product category”.
Finally, this week’s top five most popular stories were rounded out by the launch of a new end-to-end platform for MGAs. Founded by former Aspect chief technology officer Luke Aitkins, the platform Bertie ”aims to streamline underwriting practices across the full placement process”.
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