Articles by Emmanuel Kenning
Reich makes first buy for years with LJM Insurance Brokers deal
Takeover adds £4m of gross written premium to the group.
Liberty responds to being hit by £5.3m FCA fine
Insurer no longer sells mobile phone insurance to new customers.
FCA fines Liberty Mutual £5.3m
Watchdog hits insurer for failures in its oversight of mobile phone insurance claims and complaints handling.
Ardonagh raising $225m debt for deals
Finance to cover Swinton takeover and more.
Average ICO data breach fine doubles to nearly £150,000 in 12 months
Increase a “wake up call” for businesses says law firm RPC.
FCA issues third insurance scam warning in three weeks
Regulator tells public to be “especially wary” of dealing with Youcompareinsurance.
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LV signals expanded appetite with four more partnerships
Marmalade, Safeguard, Verex and Home & Legacy switch to the insurer.
The Blog Spot: Why #20Now for IPT might not be the only broker issue of the Budget
Ah, the pre-Budget blog. Where nothing is wrong and nothing is right because it’s all ifs, buts and maybes in the exciting game of “imagine if”.
AA reports flat home insurance premiums for Q3 2018
The cost of insuring a home “remains remarkable value for money”.
Car premiums continue to drop in Q3 2018 according to AA
Customers benefiting from 10% yearly fall.
Simon Cooter ready for next challenge as starting gun fired to find his replacement
Outgoing Covéa boss predicts technology will change the industry more in the next five years than it has done in the previous 30.
Covéa boss Simon Cooter to leave in 2019
Commercial lines and HNW leader joined the business in 2013.
FCA issues another clone broker warning
Unicominsurance.net appears to have been taken down.
HNW Forum: Experts debate impact of MGAs on the market
Longevity of relationships remains a key success factor.
Bollington set to buy after Wilson merger and organic growth
Documents show the Wilson price tag was £44.9m.
HNW Forum: The challenge for brokers insuring Family Offices
Simon Foster, CEO of TY Danjuma Family Office tackles the diversity of risks.
Brokerbility and BHIB group lauds “best ever year”
Profit and turnover rise in 2018.
Video: A broking minute with Neil Campling
ICB Group’s CEO faces the quick fire quiz.
Opinion: Who would believe it? When unrated is “good”
Roger Flaxman finds lessons for brokers in a fascinating £100,000 case where a firm faced litigation for not using unrated insurers.
Ardonagh sells Direct Group’s claims business for £36m
Figure dependent upon performance.
FCA grants more SMEs access to FOS
Regulator also consulting on raising maximum compensation limit to £350,000.
Ex-Ageas boss Barry Smith joins LV as non-exec
He retired from group COO role in October 2015.
Broking success: Finch Insurance Brokers’ group MD Mike Latham and ICB Group’s CEO Neil Campling
French connection: Latham and Campling tell Insurance Age how the businesses will come together as part of French firm Verlingue