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Is voice the solution to insurance fraud?
In this article, Nigel Cannings – founder of Intelligent Voice – discusses the role of machine learning and voice recognition in preventing insurance fraud.
Insuring the new working world
Hybrid, home and flexible working has become the norm for many employees. For employers these new ways of working introduce a whole new set of risks. This article explores how the insurance industry is adapting employers’ liability insurance to reflect the risks associated with new ways of working.
Keeping over-50s in the workplace
Alongside the ‘great resignation’, there are also concerns over a ‘brain drain’, with so many people over the age of 50 leaving full-time employment. This article looks at what the insurance sector is doing to keep these people on – and attract some back to the market.
Embedded insurance: Protecting the gap
Embedded insurance is receiving some hype, with claims that it could help bolster the industry by closing the protection gap while simultaneously creating the potential for lower-cost distribution. This content sheds light on the latest developments and the implications for insurance providers.
Inclusivity in insurance: Enabling customers with disabilities
In the UK 14.6 million people are classed as disabled and more than seven million people of working age have a disability. This article investigates how the insurance sector is catering for this vulnerable community – and managing this mainstream challenge.
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.