All Insurance Times articles in On-Line Archive – Page 1650
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Online onlyThe role of politics in inflating the cost of insurance claims
When claims become politicised the costs can snowball. So how do insurers prepare and price for such an eventuality?
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Agenda
New opportunities for insurers via social media
RSA’s chief marketing officer discusses the opportunities of social media ahead of Insurance Times’s The Digital Insurer event
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News
Online home broker Avantia completes £57m MBO
Firm will seek to buy brokers and MGAs following investment from ECI Partners
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News
Esure boosts profit by 6% in its first listed year
Personal lines insurer’s COR improves by 3.1 points to 89.7%
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'Clear case’ for FCA intervention in add-on market
Insurers could be forced to publish claims ratios and axe pre-ticked boxes
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Nearly 3,000 add-ons complaints in nine months
15% of UK general insurance complaints to Ombudsman
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Omnibus II adoption paves way for 2016 Solvency II launch
European Parliament adopts key package of changes, completing the new capital regime
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Online onlyFlood Re and FCA top Insurer 50 concerns
The regulator’s lack of industry knowledge in some areas such as add-ons can be a problem and insurers sometimes find it difficult to implement new standards as rule changes are not always clear
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UK Broker Regulation report: Biba's fight to make UK broking less costly
Read a free excerpt from the Insurance Times UK Broker Regulation report
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News AnalysisGoing it alone: The start-up broker renaissance
There are nearly 2000 fewer brokers today than seven years ago. But a recent increase in the number of new brokers setting up could signal the start of a recovery
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News
FCA-probed MGA ‘issued policies in Catlin’s name without insurer’s authority’
Catlin has agreed to honour unexpired policies
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Co-op plunges further into chaos after boss quits
Overall boss Euan Sutherland has left the ‘ungovernable’ company
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Only ‘signficant deterioration’ will cause motor rate rises – Esure founder Peter Wood
Esure founder’s gloomy prediction on motor rates backed by analysts
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AXA joins UNA broker alliance's insurer panel
AXA says deal is expected to deliver up to £10m GWP over the three-year contract.
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Gibraltar insurers face 12% regulatory fee hike
Brokers’ fees will increase by 9% under new FSC proposals
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Biba: FCA add-on remedies ‘a sensible first step’
But broker trade body adds that price comparison fixes should factor in recent thematic review
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Paymentshield hires Swinton’s Fox as insurer relations director
Appointment follows departure of former insurance relations director Colin Matthews
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Ex-Towergate boss beats £5m GWP target with broker Ashgrove
Stephen Duffy is set to complete on his fifth broker acquisition later this month
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ABI: UK flooding and storms to cost insurers £1.1bn
Updated estimate includes £446m of flood claims from 23 December to 28 February
