Personal Lines related articles – Page 15
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NewsAcini inks embedded cycling insurance partnership
’By embedding insurance into bicycle purchases, there’s an opportunity to promote safety among cyclists,’ says co–founder
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News AnalysisDoes premium finance need fixing?
Are premium finance products fighting underinsurance or providing ‘pain’ for ‘customers who are the least financially resilient’? Insurance Times takes a closer look…
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NewsIndustry’s ‘pursuit of a perfect price’ penalising certain groups in society – Fairer Finance
’If insurers want people to trust them, then we need to have some clarity about what’s going into their [pricing] models and how that’s being used,’ says managing director
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NewsUK premium hikes surge past Europe to ‘indicate a crisis’ – Bloomberg Intelligence
’Europe-wide price increases have diverged,’ says senior insurance industry analyst
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Sponsored ContentVan insurance not seeing same softening as motor sector – Pearson Ham
Sponsored content: Frances Leury, product manager at Pearson Ham, zeroes in on the van insurance sector
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NewsMarkerstudy and Atlanta mega-merger completes
’I am hugely energised to start our journey to create a major new player in the UK insurance landscape,’ says founder and chief executive
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News AnalysisData is the key for driving autonomous vehicle launch on UK roads
Industry commentators agree that there are still a number of question marks to be addressed before the insurance of self-driving cars can become a reality
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NewsBrokers take aim at lack of capacity for non-standard business in MGA survey
’We hope to see a collective effort from all providers to better support brokers,’ says head of broker development and partnerships
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News AnalysisIn Focus: Industry responds to Labour’s promises on car insurance
As the Labour party vows to tackle ’out of control’ premiums, industry experts respond to politicians’ pledges
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NewsHigh Five: Catch up on the biggest stories this week
Insurance Times rounds up the biggest stories from this week
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NewsSome motor insurers burying their heads in the sand over self driving vehicles – By Miles
’It’s a whole new category of insurance and it’s going to be huge,’ says chief operating officer
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News AnalysisBriefing: Time for the industry to sink or swim around flood risks
Flood-related claims are on the up, heavily influenced by climate change and the uptick in named storms – the insurance industry must take a proactive stance on this risk to avoid drowning in high claims volumes
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News AnalysisIn Focus: How can insurance firms address pricing and reputational challenges arising from the ethnicity penalty?
Citizens Advice coined the term ‘ethnicity penalty’ in 2022 to describe when people of colour pay higher insurance premiums than white people – how is the sector ensuring that ethnicity is not influencing pricing?
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NewsChanges to personal injury system causing legal access problems – Tomlinson
’People cannot access the legal support and we see when people use the portal it is a very difficult system to navigate,’ says chairman
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NewsInsurtech secures capacity from Aviva-backed MGA to expand vacation rental cover
Chief executive says ‘strategically important partnership’ will help improve business volume
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NewsAre communication issues delaying flood-related claims processes?
’There’s no kind of communication and everybody is in competition with one another,’ says account manager
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News AnalysisBriefing: Cryptocurrency risk landscape is shifting – will insurers step up?
Insurers have steered clear of insuring crypto as it’s a volatile market – but following a recent deepfake scam, is it time to rethink this emerging risk?
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NewsCyberCube announces rebrand
’We are raising our aspirations even further,’ says chief executive
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News AnalysisChallenges for travel insurers as tourism returns to pre-pandemic levels
Insurance Times reviews the current landscape in the travel insurance sector following the tumultuous years of the Covid-19 pandemic
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NewsCat microchipping could help insurers ‘enhance fraud detection’
’By implementing microchipping, insurers could verify the identity of insured pets, thereby reducing the likelihood of fraudulent claims,’ says chief executive
