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TechTalk: Hyperscale data centre boom triggers ‘call to action’ to break down insurance silos

2026-06-22T07:00:00+01:00By Harriet Scott

’Effective underwriting of these massive campuses requires precise risk pricing that accounts for asset concentration and, crucially, the potential for cascading failures,’ says senior credit analyst

The Big Question: Is UKGI ready to respond effectively to another pandemic event?

2026-05-26T07:00:00+01:00By Harriet Scott

May 2026’s hantavirus outbreak on a Dutch cruise ship is ringing unsettlingly familiar alarm bells – but, with this threat of a new health crisis emerging, is UK general insurance (UKGI) ready to respond effectively to another possible pandemic event and action lessons learned from Covid-19?

Data focused captives can be complementary buffer to plug emerging risk coverage gaps

2026-04-27T14:00:00+01:00By Katie Scott

Risk experts predict that captives will continue to grow in popularity as a tool to make hard to write risks ‘palatable’ for the insurance market – particularly during hard market cycles

UK ranks among Europe’s biggest climate risk underestimators – FM

2026-02-25T13:00:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘What businesses don’t see can hurt them, especially as climate and operational risks shift faster than expected,’ says director

Cyber risk takes root on the farm as agriculture goes fully connected

2026-02-05T08:00:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘Farmers are natural risk managers. They’ve been doing this for hundreds of years – in essence, since the dawn of man,’ says managing director

‘Amber flag’ solar panel fire risk demands action from commercial insurers

2026-01-29T08:00:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘If we don’t recognise it’s happening, we don’t get control of it – it’s going to get out of control,’ says insurance risk engineer

FCA dismisses pleas for renewed Covid BI deadline extension

2026-01-29T07:00:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘It is disappointing that the FCA is declining to take any further action when so many claims remain unresolved,’ says head of policyholder disputes

Last orders for Covid BI claims as hospitality urges FCA to step in

2025-12-23T12:18:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘It is vital that adequate time is now allowed for the latest court decisions to be implemented,’ says head of policyholder disputes

Insurance Times Awards 2025: Bspoke's Rosie Drummond making a 'meaningful' mark for young insurance talent

2025-12-03T12:02:00+00:00By Insurance Times

Rosie Drummond, business interruption developer at Bspoke Group, speaks about her entry for the Insurance Times Young Achiever Award

High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week

2025-11-28T15:00:00+00:00By Insurance Times

Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 24 November to 28 November 2025.

Pub chain launches £85m action against Marsh

2025-11-26T12:28:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘The claim will be of interest to both the insurance and hospitality sectors in examining the professional standards brokers should be held to when placing insurance for groups of companies,’ says partner

High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week

2025-10-24T14:00:00+01:00

Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 20 October to 24 October 2025

JLR cyber incident ‘most economically damaging in UK history’

2025-10-22T10:58:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

‘This incident appears to be the most economically damaging cyber event ever to hit the UK,’ says Cyber Monitoring Centre

Aviva declares market first as it launches automatic 24-month BI uplift

2025-10-16T08:00:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

‘Aviva is proud to lead the way with an automatic 24-month business interruption cover uplift, provided free of charge,’ says managing director

Mining insurance market sees rate drops as new carriers and capacity enter

2025-10-09T11:00:00+01:00By George McDade

‘The mining insurance market is ripe for optimisation, but success hinges on proactive risk management,’ says global mining leader

High Five: Catch up on the biggest exclusive stories this week

2025-09-05T14:00:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

Insurance Times rounds up the biggest exclusive stories from 1 to 5 September 2025

Tariff-linked supply chain disruptions ‘worse than Covid’, complicating business interruption

2025-09-05T07:00:00+01:00By Harriet Scott

’The problems that these businesses are now having to solve are ones of financial and economic assessment that interfere with the supply and demand curve, rather than ones of physical production and distribution capacity,’ says head

High Court backs Bath Racecourse in landmark Covid BI ruling

2025-07-24T09:00:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

‘Businesses with multiple premises may have separate limits and sublimits of indemnity,’ says law firm partner

Beazley accused of stalling as BI claim disputes head to court

2025-07-16T06:00:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

’Our clients and this firm notified these claims in 2020 and they are still no further, despite the legal landscape changing so much in the favour of policyholders,’ says solicitor

Marsh launches €1bn insurance facility as data centre demand grows

2025-06-16T12:49:00+01:00By Harry McNeil

‘Data centres are fast becoming the fourth utility and are the engine rooms of the global economy,’ says chief executive

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