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Intelligence: Subsidence
With hot summers becoming more likely in the future, subsidence surge and event years may be the new norm. This article looks at how insurers are preparing for these claims in a climate change environment.
Intelligence: Travel insurance
Parametric products are a good example of how complexity can be removed from the world of insurance. This article examines how their use in travel insurance could help the insurance market with its transparency and ultimately clean up its image.
Customer abuse: In the line of fire
With rising energy bills, inflation and the cost-of-living crisis all hitting consumers in the pocket, tensions are running high and customer service departments are facing more hostility. This article investigates what insurers are doing to protect their customer-facing staff.
Show vulnerable clients that insurers care
As the cost-of-living crisis takes its toll on consumers, Covéa’s Vicki Heslop discusses why the insurance industry must be able to signpost how it can help before a crisis point is reached.
Grenfell: Five years on
Over five years have passed since 72 victims lost their lives after a fire ripped through a building featuring unsafe cladding. This article investigates what insurers have learnt from this, how building standards have moved on and if the prospects of similar tragedies have been ruled out.
Fears rise over flood affordability for all UK homes
The Bank of England has warned in its latest Stress Test that if no additional action is taken on climate change, then insurance could become unaffordable to some UK homes when Flood Re ends in 2039. This article investigates.
How to protect customers from fraud
In this article, Martin Milliner, claims director at LV General Insurance, outlines the amendments lawmakers should make to the Online Safety Bill to protect the public and raise awareness of cyber crime.
All on board – firms must tackle representation
The FCA requires listed firms to report on, and disclose, targets on how well represented women and ethnic minorities are on boards and executive management teams. This article investigates if the regulator has been too light-touch on this important issue of underrepresentation.
Cutting back the harvest criminals
Plant theft in rural areas is a major issue for landowners and their insurers. This article explores how a specialist police unit, which was set up in 2021, is helping to tackle this type of crime, and what mitigation measures are being introduced.
The benefits of transferring periodical payment orders to a life insurer
Start-up life insurer AUL Assurance is targeting general insurers, offering them an opportunity to reduce their exposure to PPO risks. This article explores the benefits of such transfers and why the recent ASHE inflation figures might make this option more attractive in the future.