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Briefing: Does Ageas’ purchase of Esure make up for it losing out on DLG?

2025-04-16T09:13:00+01:00By

Ageas UK made two bids for DLG in 2024 – both were rejected

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Opinion: Opportunistic fraud is thorn in sector’s side

2025-04-09T06:00:00+01:00By

Processes combating criminal insurance fraud are working well, according to industry experts, but opportunistic fraud is much more problematic due to its roots in genuine claims and policy applications

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Will MBA be catalyst to UK Islamic insurance momentum?

2025-04-08T06:00:00+01:00By

The launch of a new executive MBA in Islamic Insurance and Risk Management has delivered a renewed focus on the UK’s efforts to create a sustainable sharia-compliant insurance sector

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Ant Middle: Organic growth focused plan seeks to put Ageas UK top of the personal lines pile

2025-04-07T06:00:00+01:00By

The insurer has ‘earned the right to think bigger as a business’ and topple the likes of Allianz, Axa and Hastings from the personal lines podium using product expansion, AI investment and a commitment to broker partners, says chief executive

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TechTalk: The broker opportunity to fill a cover gap around commercial drone use

2025-04-04T07:00:00+01:00By

’Small, low value drones can perform a pretty high level of professional services at a fraction of the cost of what you would have had to do previously,’ says head of class

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Are apprenticeships the solution or a costly burden?

2025-04-03T07:00:00+01:00By

’It is hopefully a fast-disappearing perception, but the idea that apprentices are school leavers who make the tea is woefully out of date,’ says learning and development lead

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Five years of ombudsman data exposes insurance’s biggest complaints

2025-04-02T07:00:00+01:00By

A five-year review of ombudsman complaints data reveals motor insurance continues to dominate complaints volumes, while travel insurance has the highest upheld rate of the major UKGI business lines

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Sector must ‘start again’ to tackle ‘different beast’ of commercial fraud

2025-04-01T14:00:00+01:00By

’It wasn’t that long ago that the insurance industry came together to tackle major personal lines fraud, so it should be easy to do it again,’ says executive director

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In Focus: Was Gap insurance ‘unfairly targeted’ by the FCA?

2025-03-31T07:00:00+01:00By

’The way [the FCA has] gone about it, closing down an entire market, is unheard of,’ says managing director

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Insurance industry needs to hire ‘skills for the future’ instead of focusing on the past

2025-03-24T08:00:00+00:00By

’What were network engineers doing 10 years ago – plugging cables into the back of boxes? That’s not what they are doing now,’ says expert

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Briefing: London loses in more ways than one as Matcham departs

2025-03-20T10:00:00+00:00By

The International Underwriting Association confirmed this morning that incumbent chief executive is stepping down from his role

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Is the industry doing enough to attract care leavers?

2025-03-20T08:19:00+00:00By

’It is important for children in care to see individuals with similar backgrounds achieving successful careers in the financial services industry,’ says sales operations consultant

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