All Insurance Times articles in On-Line Archive – Page 2251
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NewsCovid-19 hits Saga’s travel insurance sales but motor and home retention improves
The business has also sold 533,000 three-year fixed-price policies, with more than 60% of direct new business customers choosing this product
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NewsUK personal lines market set for significant shrinkage following Covid-19
And the GlobalData research predicts it will take until 2022 for the market to recover lost GWP
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NewsPrimary Group buys majority stake in Leeds-based MGA
Investment holding company Personal Group has re-purchased personal lines MGA UK General Insurance Group after originally selling the business to J C Flowers in 2017.
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NewsArdonagh tops debt above £1.8bn amid new M&A hunger
The broker also announced £300m in finance for its acquisition pipeline
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IT InterviewInsurtech offering brokers and underwriters PPL alternative sees business boom during Covid crisis
With Covid-19 accelerating electronic placing in the insurance industry, insurtech Whitespace is on a mission to help brokers and underwriters smoothly transact as its platform business is soaring
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NewsSMEs still lacking terror cover as Reading attack highlights ongoing risks
After three men were murdered in a recent attack in Reading that is being treating as a terror incident, Geo Underwriting warns SMEs could be at risk without the right cover in place
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NewsMachines will wipeout most underwriters in just 10 years - Peter Cullum
Underwriters face mass redundancy as machines take over, with Amazon also a big threat
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NewsClaims Excellence Awards Finalist 2020 Q&A: Countrywide Hearing’s tool aims to simplify claims journey
Winners will be revealed at Insurance Times’s Claims Excellence Awards 2020 on 15 October at Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel
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NewsFCA appoints new chief exec
The new candidate will start in the autumn, with interim chief executive Chris Woolard continuing in his role until then
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NewsRevealed: Top BAME insurance leaders and role models 2020
Some BAME insurance leaders from Aon, Aviva and Brokerbility have made it on to the list again this year
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News AnalysisArdonagh downgraded following £2bn refinancing deal
But rating agency Fitch says it expects the broking group to continue to improve its EBITDA margin amidst the potential for increased cost savings as a result of its latest round of acquisitions, as well as a return to ’healthy’ free cash flow
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IT InterviewOpportunity to boost terror insurance penetration seen amid lockdown
The socio-economic pressure on UK society could lead to a spate of terrorist attacks post-pandemic but there are measures that brokers can take to drive the penetration of terror cover up for SMEs and help ensure they can recover should the worst happen according to Geo Underwriting
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NewsClaims Excellence Awards Finalist 2020 Q&A: VisionTrack’s IoT platform transforming video telematics
Winners will be revealed at Insurance Times’s Claims Excellence Awards 2020 on 15 October at Kensington’s Royal Garden Hotel
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Online onlyBriefing: The story behind Ardonagh’s mega-refinancing
The deal gives Ardonagh additional firepower for M&A
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NewsMarkerstudy confirms that board directors have taken a 50% pay cut
Markerstudy announces its latest step to stay afloat while battling the financial fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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NewsPandemic Re risks creating ‘society insurance gap’, says Totus Re
As such, it has urged the insurance industry and government to consider more perils than just pandemic risks as part of the Pandemic Re steering group
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NewsWorking from home could cause employee mental health issues
There is a social element to work that employees who work from home may not be getting leading to feelings of isolation as well as having to juggle other responsibilities such as childcare
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NewsHiscox Action Group seeks to intervene in FCA’s test case on BI policy wordings
The Hiscox Action Group has instructed its lawyers to intervene with the FCA’s BI case test, as insurer Hiscox refuses to move forward on any other legal action until the conclusion of the FCA’s hearing.
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Online onlyCompetition watchdog probes brokers over Ardonagh buy
The Competition and Markets Authority is asking brokers a range of questions over an Ardonagh broker buy. Ardonagh is the largest player in UK personal likes broking, rising up the rankings again of our Top 50 brokers following a series of acquisitions led by chief executive David Ross. The competition ...
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News AnalysisBriefing: Could brokers be next in-line for the Covid-19 BI scandal?
The FCA test case on the validity of business interruption claims in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak will start next month. While insurers have been the ones under the spotlight so far, brokers could be next if insurer’s get a favourable outcome
