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High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 19 to 23 October 2026
House of Lords tells FCA to ‘accelerate’ work on home and travel as timescales ‘not clear’
’We know that the FCA is undertaking various pieces of work to make progress on many of the issues our report has highlighted, but the timescales are not clear and it should produce a roadmap of what it is doing,’ says chair
Allianz UK secures capacity deal with digital insurance broker
’It’s a strong example of how we’re using digital trading to make our products available to more businesses,’ says head
Cobra Network boss joins Acrisure as UK retail chief executive
‘Tedstone is a highly respected leader with deep experience of the UK insurance market and a strong track record of building successful businesses,’ says president of international insurance solutions and global markets
Markerstudy confirms 80 roles affected by business simplification programme
Firm says proposed changes will impact approximately 80 roles across the business as it continues to evolve its operating model
1st Central launches agentic AI motor insurance proposition
‘It could reduce the time customers spend managing their insurance by around 40 per cent,’ says chief executive
Top 50 Insurers
Top 50 Insurers 2025
The definitive ranking of the UK’s top general insurers for 2025 – but where has your firm placed?
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Top 50 Insurers 2024
The definitive ranking of the UK’s top general insurers for 2024 – but where has your firm placed?
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Top 50 Insurers 2023
The definitive ranking of the UK’s top general insurers for 2023 – but where has your firm placed?
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Top 50 Insurers
Top 50 Insurers 2025
The definitive ranking of the UK’s top general insurers for 2025 – but where has your firm placed?
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Top 50 Insurers 2026: Aviva retains table title despite GWP dip
Insurance Times content director Katie Scott reviews the headline findings of this year’s Top 50 Insurers report, flagging where firms are winning, losing – and battling the soft market
Top 50 Insurers 2026: Berkshire Hathaway International tops IDL’s 2026 underwriting gold awards
Market intelligence firm Insurance DataLab confirms which businesses in the UK, Gibraltar and Lloyd’s marketplaces have outperformed in terms of underwriting, showcasing a variety of paths to profitability among the insurer cohort
‘It’s not about robots’ – Zurich says technology should remove friction, not judgement
Top 50 Insurers 2026: What size really says about underwriting performance
Aviva looks to ‘re-seed’ talent across its UK broker programmes
TechTalk: When AI becomes the front door to insurance, who decides what's inside?
Martin Schultheiss: Uinsure ‘redefines’ culture as AI produces ‘significant productivity gain’
’We have redefined our culture as a business. It used to be suits and trainers, we now call it suits, trainers and cool tools,’ says group managing director
Russell White: Peach set to become main driver of premium across NPA Insurance
’Peach will become more than 50% of the insurance company premium across all of NPA Insurance,’ says chief executive
Scott Egan: SiriusPoint ready to redeploy capital as market softens
Chief executive says four years of turnaround work have put SiriusPoint on stronger footing with cedants and ratings agencies
Matt Cox: Turning claims into a strategic asset at Allianz UK requires a 'mindset shift'
’This year’s pivot, from January onwards, has been to figure out how we maximise the benefit and the assets that we’ve got, as well as how we recognise claims itself as a strategic asset in the whole of the insurance cycle,’ says chief claims officer
Kelly Madeley: Industry must ‘make insurance exciting’ to attract talent
Aviva refuses ‘to chase unprofitable’ commercial lines business amid soft market as GWP tumbles 4% in HY results – Jason Storah
Charles Bush: Employee risk is ‘definitely higher up’ corporate agendas as ‘very significant’ losses start to stack up
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