All In Focus articles – Page 3
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News AnalysisIn Focus: What are the competitive advantages of MGAs for underwriting?
Insurance Times asks industry leaders what properties of managing general agents (MGAs) enables them to compete in the underwriting market when offering insurance solutions
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News AnalysisIn Focus: What is the insurance sector doing to help support broker eTrading this year?
Insurance Times asks industry leaders how the insurance sector can better support eTrading this year
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How software houses support acquired brokers to integrate onto new platforms
Insurance Times investigates how software platforms and considerations over data can impact the merger and acquisitions process for brokers
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Consumer Duty presents ‘huge opportunity’, but implementation has not been smooth
With the 31 July 2023 deadline fast approaching, can the general insurance sector properly grasp the opportunities new regulation offers?
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How will Solvency II reforms affect general insurance?
Industry experts chime in on the advantages and risks of Solvency II
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Broker schemes present an opportunity to better serve clients’ needs
‘By definition, if you’ve created a scheme, you’ve created a unique selling point,’ says group chief executive
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Are broker schemes on the rise again?
Industry experts tell Insurance Times about the recovery of broker schemes following the pandemic
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How can the insurance sector mitigate increasing HNW subsidence claims?
Industry experts weigh in on the causes why high net worth subsidence claims are rising and discuss how best to respond to this risk
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Is high net worth cover ‘too generous’ for clients?
Broker leader reveals potential ‘recipe for disaster’ from having ‘underpriced’ premiums and ‘too good’ cover in the HNW market
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Insurers must brace for property disrepair claims as CMCs’ interest is piqued
Counter fraud experts have seen cases where certain CMCs have encouraged vulnerable customers to pursue ‘exaggerated or unmeritorious claims’
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How can the insurance sector demonstrate the downsides of opportunistic fraud to end consumers?
Industry experts discuss the impact of low level fraud on end consumers and how best to communicate the resultant ramifications
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News AnalysisIn Focus: MGAs are undoubtedly ‘the sexy side of insurance’ - but what is driving their increasing relevance?
The advantages that MGAs can provide to the insurance sector in a rapidly changing world could help the industry stay relevant
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How can MGAs entice insurers to provide capacity amid challenging market conditions?
Three industry experts discuss how MGAs can make themselves as attractive as possible to capacity providers amid hard market indicators
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Have commercial lines brokers been slow to pursue digital transformation and what progress has been made in 2022?
Three industry experts discuss the progress of digital transformation in the commercial lines broking space
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Commercial lines brokers have ‘key role’ to play in supporting struggling hospitality clients through turbulent times
Pubs and restaurants are in a ’precarious position’ and face ’significant headwinds’ from a range of economic factors that brokers must try to mitigate as much as possible
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AnalysisIn Focus: How can the insurance sector support and drive the growth of embedded insurance in the UK?
Three industry experts discuss the impact embedded insurance could have in the UKGI market and how these propositions could be utilised by the sector
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AnalysisIn Focus: Could telematics present a win-win for insureds and the industry as the cost of living crisis ramps up?
As inflation accelerates and wages fall, the ‘risk reductions’ provided by telematics-based motor insurance could allow insurers to pass on ‘cheaper premiums’ to their customers
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Sponsored ContentQ&A: It’s ‘a fallacy’ that brokers are slow to work with insurtechs – Ignite Software Systems
Toby MacLachlan, managing director of Ignite Software Systems, shares his insights on the insurtech market and its relationship with brokers
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AnalysisIn Focus: Why is there increased investor appetite for insurtechs from outside the insurance industry?
Three industry experts explore why non-insurance sector businesses are looking to buy into insurtechs
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AnalysisIn Focus: How are insurtechs matchmaking brokers and capacity providers?
‘Granular’ and ‘relevant’ data can create ‘much more qualitative conversation’ between all parties, say experts
