• Skip to main content
  • Skip to navigation
  • hot-topicsMORE
  • NEW: Five Star Rating Report 2026: eTrading
  • AWARDS: Claims Excellence
  • 🎥 Executive Edit Podcast
  • TOP 50: Brokers 2025
  • TOP 50: Insurers 2025
Insert Logo text
Core Test

We’re at Biba Conference 2026

Keep informed with our
online coverage

Attending? Visit us at stand A50

Mast navigation
  • Request a Free Trial
  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In
Search our site
Menu
Close menu
  • Home
  • News
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • News
    • M&A
    • People Moves
    • Commercial Lines
    • Cyber
    • Financial / Results
    • London Market
    • Motor
    • Personal Lines
    • TechTalk
  • Analysis
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Analysis
    • Story of the Day
    • Briefing
    • Interviews
    • Data Matters
    • TechTalk
    • Expert Views
    • Commercial Lines
    • Personal Lines
    • Edition
  • Biba
  • Destination Insurance
  • Brokers
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Brokers
    • Top 50
    • Broker News
    • Broker Analysis
    • Broker Interviews
    • SME Brokers
    • Featured Brokers
    • Research Reports
  • Insurers
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Insurers
    • Top 50
    • Insurer News
    • Insurer Analysis
    • Insurer Interviews
    • Featured Insurers
    • Research Reports
  • Ratings
  • Research
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Research
    • Top 50 Brokers
    • Top 50 Insurers
    • eTrading
    • Commercial Lines
    • Personal Lines
    • MGA Market
    • Digital Transformation
  • Fraud Charter
  • Topics
    • Back to parent navigation item
    • Topics
    • Claims
    • Commercial Lines
    • Cyber
    • Data Matters
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • ESG
    • Financial / Results
    • Fraud Charter
    • High Net Worth
    • London Market
    • M&A
    • Market
    • Motor
    • People Moves
    • Personal Lines
    • Regulation
    • Risk Management
    • Schemes
    • Talent
    • TechTalk
      • Back to parent navigation item
      • TechTalk
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Broker Software Platforms
      • eTrading
      • Insurtech
  • Events
  • Expert Views
  • Edition
  • Home
    • toolkit
      Opinion: Could captive appetite uptick present opportunity for brokers?
    • Lea Cheesbrough 3
      Lea Cheesbrough: From nurse to networker and becoming a ‘one woman crusade for independent broking’
    • claims performance
      Claims performance comes into sharper focus as brokers seek placement certainty
    • Different sized piggy banks
      Opinion: Is there an optimal size for a retail insurance broker?
  • News
      • M&A
      • People Moves
      • Commercial Lines
      • Cyber
      • Financial / Results
      • London Market
      • Motor
      • Personal Lines
      • TechTalk
    • conference (3)
      Staying sharp, social and sane: How to survive a multiday conference
    • risk management, clipboard
      Data focused captives can be complementary buffer to plug emerging risk coverage gaps
    • Axco sign
      What is the ‘biggest constraint’ in the captive model?
  • Analysis
      • Story of the Day
      • Briefing
      • Interviews
      • Data Matters
      • TechTalk
      • Expert Views
      • Commercial Lines
      • Personal Lines
      • Edition
    • balancing act
      Briefing: Placement is becoming a balancing act for brokers
    • travel cancellations
      Could travel disruption arising from the Middle East conflict trigger a rise in opportunistic fraud?
    • Football match
      How insurance is helping prevent own goals at 2026’s World Cup
  • Biba
  • Destination Insurance
  • Brokers
      • Top 50
      • Broker News
      • Broker Analysis
      • Broker Interviews
      • SME Brokers
      • Featured Brokers
      • Research Reports
    • Lee Anderson, SRG
      Briefing: The power of gratitude in recognising continuity
    • Lea Cheesbrough 11 - USE
      Movo Group launches DA network because the ‘space needs a shake up’
    • Toby Clegg
      Briefing: A Cockney’s guide to nicking business
  • Insurers
      • Top 50
      • Insurer News
      • Insurer Analysis
      • Insurer Interviews
      • Featured Insurers
      • Research Reports
    • Joanne Musselle
      Jo Musselle: How Hiscox wants underwriters to ‘see around corners’
    • Empty stage, Marsh Aviation Summit 2026
      Aviation insurers ‘being far more selective’ with capacity due to ‘significant attritional losses’
    • Headshot - Geoff Carter, Sabre Insurance
      Geoff Carter: Sabre’s husky sled strategy maintains profitability across market cycles
  • Ratings
        • COMMERCIAL LINES 2025/26
        • Front cover report
        • ETRADING 2026
        • Front cover report
        • MGA MARKET 2025/26
        • MGA 2025/26
        • PERSONAL LINES 2025/26
        • Front cover report
  • Research
      • Top 50 Brokers
      • Top 50 Insurers
      • eTrading
      • Commercial Lines
      • Personal Lines
      • MGA Market
      • Digital Transformation
    • etrading_2026_460x307
      Insurance Times reveals headline results of 2026 eTrading survey
    • competition (2)
      What’s to play for in Insurance Times’ upcoming eTrading Report 2026?
    • five star (2)
      Full Five Star Rating Report: Commercial and Personal Lines 2025/26 is now available
  • Fraud Charter
  • Topics
      • Claims
      • Commercial Lines
      • Cyber
      • Data Matters
      • Diversity and Inclusion
      • ESG
      • Financial / Results
      • Fraud Charter
      • High Net Worth
      • London Market
      • M&A
      • Market
      • Motor
      • People Moves
      • Personal Lines
      • Regulation
      • Risk Management
      • Schemes
      • Talent
      • TechTalk
        • Artificial Intelligence
        • Broker Software Platforms
        • eTrading
        • Insurtech
  • Events
  • Expert Views
    • trust build
      Why premium finance partnerships are key to broker resilience – Close Brothers
    • flexible working
      How flexible working can have a positive impact on talent attraction and retention – Zurich UK
    • premium finance
      Why trust is central to premium finance – Close Brothers
    • commercial property robot hand
      The data gap has narrowed in commercial property – LexisNexis Risk Solutions
  • Edition
  • More navigation items

ESG

oil platform

News

Zurich adds 24/7 environmental emergency response service to UK policies

2026-05-11T14:00:00+01:00By Iris Hakaj

New programme gives commercial customers access to global spill response and regulatory support

highfive (7)

News

High Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week

2026-05-08T14:00:00+01:00By Insurance Times

Insurance Times rounds up the top five stories making headlines across the market from 5 to 8 May 2026

AvivaProtestor

News

Protestors disrupt Aviva AGM

2026-05-06T11:23:00+01:00By George McDade

Footage shows campaigners attempting to block access to boardrooms

childrens charity

News

Admiral Group commits to £1m partnership with national children’s charity

2026-04-20T10:02:00+01:00By Harriet Scott

’We’re proud to support work that strengthens resilience, responds to poverty and climate related challenges and puts children’s voices at the heart of shaping safer futures,’ says chief sustainability officer

dave wood

News

JBA Risk Management scales global flood model to meet evolving risk

2026-03-25T13:10:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

’Our new global flood model’s enhanced functionality, built on our flood maps, enables our clients around the world to fully understand their flood exposure,’ says managing director

crops

News

‘Rest of the world’ should adopt insurance’s risk modelling approach – Rowan Douglas

2026-03-19T12:15:00+00:00By George McDade

’We are the only industry that properly takes blood pressure, not just has a nice chat with the doctor,’ says senior advisor

rural fire

Analysis

Is wildfire risk an ‘underestimated’ peril spreading to the UK?

2026-03-12T08:00:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

With the threat of wildfires spreading globally, industry experts tell Insurance Times what the risks are to properties in rural urban interfaces and HNW structures in the UK if the industry is unprepared

property flooding

News Analysis

Is countering rising flood risk an ‘impossible task’ for UK insurers?

2026-03-04T08:00:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

‘If you’re in an area of low risk, there is a limit to how much you’re going to cross-subsidise for someone who is in a high risk area – that is a circle that’s hard to square,’ says partner

climate risk

News

LMA report reveals fundamental shift in climate transition assumptions

2026-03-03T13:00:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

’We are not just observing – we are actively supporting our clients across different sectors and industries as they navigate decarbonisation and adaptation,’ says finance and risk director

IMG_5314

News

Insurance Networks Fair draws capacity crowd to City of London Club

2026-03-02T15:00:00+00:00By George McDade

Last week’s Insurance Networks Fair – organised and hosted by Empower Development – attracted a full house to the City of London Club, bringing together industry veterans and newcomers alike to promote the networks and clubs that form the backbone of the insurance community

GettyImages-2261396669

News

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

studyexam

News

CII exams reach ‘decade-long peak’

2026-02-10T12:00:00+00:00By George McDade

‘The results demonstrate an appetite for skills and progression within the sector, as well as our members’ continued commitment to professional development,’ says director

GettyImages-1127159370

News Analysis

‘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

protest fitch

News

Climate protest forces evacuation at London market conference

2026-01-23T12:01:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

’We disrupted this conference because insurance professionals cannot keep discussing ‘risk’ in isolation from the risks they are actually creating’, says activist

Career Purpose Destination Insurance

News

Destination Insurance: The sector must appeal to young people’s priorities by ‘holding that mirror up’

2026-01-23T11:00:00+00:00By Harriet Scott

’Your firm could be doing loads of good in the world but it’s that little bit of bad that sours the whole soup which means that retaining that talent is very difficult,’ says campaign manager

GettyImages-2196243686

News

Growth optimism drives insurance M&A and AI investment – KPMG

2026-01-19T14:00:00+00:00By Harry McNeil

‘Insurers are on the front foot, turning market uncertainty into an opportunity for bold action,’ says global head of insurance

genz

News

Destination Insurance: How can the insurance industry make itself attractive to Gen Z talent?

2026-01-19T08:00:00+00:00By George McDade

‘If you spend so much of your life doing a job, it kind of has to mean something,’ says chief impact officer

talent

News

Destination Insurance: Quantitative reporting fundamental to talent pipeline success

2026-01-16T13:00:00+00:00By George McDade

‘If you don’t have the data, you’re in a dark room, fumbling around to find a key to open a door that you know will make everything much easier,’ says director

hired

News

Destination Insurance: Insurance should treat its talent problem like ‘eating an elephant’

2026-01-16T12:00:00+00:00By George McDade

The industry should focus on smaller, specific and solvable problems, says chief executive

training

News

Biba Manifesto 2026: Expansion to the growth and skills levy would help industry grow

2026-01-15T14:00:00+00:00By George McDade

’Training and skills is a really important part of what we do,’ says chief executive

All ESG articles

Keep informed
LinkedIn
X
YouTube
Instagram
My Account
My Newsletters
  • About Us
  • Contacts
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy
  • Contributors
  • Media Pack
  • AdChoices
  • Cookies
  • Subscribe
  • FAQ
  • Feedback
  • © Insurance Times 2026
Part of the Insurance and Risk group of Newsquest Specialist Media
Global Reinsurance Insurance Times StrategicRISK
Published by Newsquest Media Group Limited,
registered in England & Wales with number 01676637
at The Echo Building, 18 Albert Road, Bournemouth,
England, BH1 1BZ - a USA Today company

Site powered by Webvision Cloud