Risk Management – Page 74
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AnalysisThe Big Question Jan/Feb 2022: What protection gaps should be front of mind for brokers in 2022?
As 2022 gets underway, Insurance Times asks the industry about what new business brokers can gain by exploring and prioritising protection gaps
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NewsEncouraging survey reveals cyber insurance uptake on the rise
Survival is a ‘top priority’ for SMEs post-pandemic
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AnalysisLegal professional indemnity stresses push firms to consider their futures
Brokers must support law firms with risk management to battle professional indemnity claim threats and increasing premiums
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NewsInsurtech MGA using parametric call to brokers after $120m funding
The insurtech will continue its global expansion
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NewsLloyd’s plan for consistency in face-to-face meetings amid rise in home working
Transparency on when underwriters will be available in person is needed
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AnalysisIn Focus: Ex-Love Islander’s burglary reawakens HNW underinsurance and social media risks debate
Brokers have a key role in advising clients about the dangers of sharing details of their valuables on social media, as well as helping to prevent underinsurance
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NewsSuperscript launches digital emerging risks insurance advisory
The insurtech aims to ’reduce the burden of insurance for businesses’
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NewsCo-op Insurance and Markerstudy launch pet cover with Towie’s Pete Wicks
The pair hope to help make pet adoption more affordable
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AnalysisUK’s changing climate will drive industry focus on innovation and risk management
Brokers that can help businesses with “training, monitoring and being ready” ahead of potential flood damage can ensure their commercial clients have a “massive differentiator”
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NewsManifesto 2022: E-scooters need compulsory public liability insurance
The trade body has also called for e-scooter insurance policies to be exempt from insurance premium tax
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NewsBiba launches ‘biggest’ manifesto for 2022
The 84-page document, themed around managing risk, contains 52 calls for action from the broker trade body across six detailed chapters
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NewsDrones, medical malpractice and cyber are top tech risks for 2022 - DAC Beachcroft
Climate change was also cited as a key risk by the law firm
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NewsPen Underwriting inks multiyear capacity deal extensions with QBE
The businesses have worked together for the past 20 years
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AnalysisHouse of Lords debates need for e-scooter safety regulations and compulsory insurance
Speakers in the House of Lords last week debated the safety of e-scooters on UK roads and whether more stringent regulation is needed amid claims that ’the pavements have become a jungle’
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NewsZego reveals European expansion plans targeting fleet insurance sector
Fleet managers could save up to 20% on premiums at renewal using Zego’s behaviour-driven insurance product, the insurtech says
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NewsCyber outranks Covid-19 and supply chain risk as biggest concern for global businesses – Allianz
However, business interruption remains a ‘key theme’
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NewsRegulation requirements, personalised products and zero touch operational models set to be tech trends for 2022
EMEA product marketing director says businesses’ technology evolution is vital to move from focusing on just maintenance, to instead ‘being a hub for innovation’
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NewsCyber threats ‘growing faster than ability to prevent and manage them effectively’
Rewarding efficiency over resilience ’can leave companies vulnerable to shocks’, says broker’s European risk management leader
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NewsBusiness school launches new research consortium to better prepare for next systemic risk
The insurance industry’s ’policies, preparedness and financial responses require a significant overhaul’ to ’better equip and protect society from the next major systemic risk’, says Pool Re chief executive
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NewsNew Scottish fire safety legislation could invalidate home insurance policies
The new legislation is set to come into force on 1 February 2022 in Scotland requires interlinked smoke alarms to be fitted by this date
