Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 30 March to 2 April 2026
This week’s most popular story followed the news that Howden is set to launch a new actuarial and longevity arm following its purchase of the insurance and financial services consulting (IFS) team of Hymans Robertson.
Hymans Robertson’s IFS specialists will merge with another expert team that joined Howden through its purchase of Barnett Waddingham in March 2025.
Insurance Times readers were also captivated by the news that recently launched MGA Orvia Underwriting has made a series of senior appointments as it “accelerates the build out of its pan-European MGA platform”.
This week’s third most read story followed WTW’s creation of a dedicated Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) property and casualty (P&C) business, to be led by new appointee Tim Rourke.
More unmissable news came in the form of Atec Group’s appointment of Kirsty Biggs to the role of chief technical officer.
The new appointee said she was ”delighted to join Atec at such an exciting time and to play my part in realising its ambitions”.
The top five stories were rounded out by an artificial intelligence (AI) impact report from insurance technology and automation firm Simplifai.
The report argued that the global insurance industry is investing in AI programmes and initiatives at “record levels”, but getting “almost nothing” back.
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