Articles by Insurance Age staff
Underinsurance: how big is the problem and what can brokers do to solve it?
Inaccurate buildings sums insured are one of the biggest causes of claims disputes, creating problems for policyholders, brokers and insurers.
Top 100 UK Brokers 2024: Full table listing
Insurance Age is delighted to share its 2024 Top 100 UK Broker rankings supplied by Insuramore and sponsored by Open GI.
Video Q&A: Open GI director of brokers and MGAs Nick Giddings
In the run-up to Broker Expo on Thursday this week, Open GI director of brokers and MGAs Nick Giddings spoke to Insurance Age content director Jonathan Swift about how software partners can help brokers get to grips with new technologies such as GenAI.
Top 100 UK Insurance Brokers 2024: Q&A with Open GI CEO Simon Badley
Simon Badley, the CEO of Open GI, the sponsor of the UK Top 100 Insurance Brokers 2024, reflects on the changing market, and how his company can help intermediaries navigate opportunities for further growth in the future.
Top 100 UK Insurance Brokers: Methodology
Insuramore possesses a detailed knowledge of the global (and UK) insurance broking market resulting from rankings that it publishes annually of the top 300 such groups according to their worldwide revenues, with 2023 the most recent (see www.insuramore…
Saga confirms talks with Ageas over insurance “partnership”
Saga has today confirmed it is in discussions with Ageas with “regard to a potential partnership arrangement for its insurance business”.
Gallagher promotes Collings to new chief broking officer exec role
Gallagher has promoted Simon Collings to a new executive role, chief broking officer, reporting to Michael Rea, CEO of Gallagher in the UK.
Video Q&A: Bravo Networks development director Kevin Westcott
With Broker Expo just over a week away, Bravo Networks development director Kevin Westcott spoke to Jonathan Swift about why data is such a crucial aspect of embedding the right placement strategy for brokers.
Kingfisher creates new motorsports arm following broker buy
Kingfisher Insurance Services has acquired MIS Motorsport’s commercial business in the UK and Ireland.
Ageas adds to distribution team with double senior hire
Ageas UK has strengthened its broker and partner distribution team with a double appointment.
Video Q&A: Geo Underwriting CEO Jaime Swindle
In the run-up to Broker Expo next week, Geo Underwriting CEO Jaime Swindle spoke to Insurance Age content director Jonathan Swift about why the business has a different look and feel today than in the past.
NBS seals SME capacity deal with Hadron UK
NBS Underwriting has added Hadron UK Insurance to its insurer panel, effective 1 October.
Open GI strikes deal to provide brokers with gen AI chatbots
Open GI has teamed up with artificial intelligence specialists OpenDialog to bring advanced conversational AI agents to its customers, with the aim of creating efficiency gains for brokers by automating customer service interactions.
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: Avoira’s Ian Taylor
As we count down to Insurance Age’s Broker Week, we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and reveal their favourite chocolate bar. Today, we focus on Avoira’s head of commercial – customer experience Ian…
PwC tips Northern Irish motor premium to drop 15% after Government review
Motor insurance premiums for Scottish and Northern Irish drivers have been tipped to decrease by an average of £60 (10%) in Scotland and £90 (15%) in Northern Ireland following a Government review.
Allianz promotes to bolster personal lines broker team
The Allianz personal lines broker business has strengthened its leadership team and promoted Victoria Price to director of broker propositions.
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: Biba CEO Graeme Trudgill
As we count down to Insurance Age’s Broker Week, we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and reveal their favourite chocolate bar. Today, we focus on the British Insurance Brokers’ Association CEO Graeme…
Motor leads the way as insurers detected 14% more fraudulent claims in 2023
Insurers detected £1.1bn worth of fraudulent claims last year, up 4% on 2022, according to the latest cross-industry figures.
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: Jonathan Evans of Sustain Insurance Brokers
As we count down to Insurance Age’s Broker Week, we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and and reveal their favourite chocolate bar. Today, we focus on Sustain Insurance Brokers founder Jonathan Evans.
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: David Sparkes of Biba
As we count down to Insurance Age’s Broker Week, we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and reveal their favourite chocolate bar. Today, we focus on the British Insurance Brokers’ Association regulation…
Biba calls on FCA to remove large SMEs from scope of Consumer Duty
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has called for larger commercial customers to be removed from the scope of the Consumer Duty
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: Movo Partnership CEO Lea Cheesbrough
As we count down to Insurance Age’s Broker Week, we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and who are the most heavy metal people in insurance. Today, we focus on Movo Partnership CEO Lea Cheesbrough.
Broker Expo 2024 Countdown: Clear regional managing director, London, Nick Smallcorn
As we countdown to Insurance Age’s Broker Week we asked our Broker Expo speakers to share some insights into the event, market issues and who the most heavy metal people in insurance are. Today we focus on Clear regional managing director, London, Nick…
Lloyd’s looks to better protect whistleblowers as it consults on misconduct framework
Lloyd’s has begun a consultation as it looks to modernise and streamline its approach to dealing with poor conduct and behaviours in the market including both financial and non-financial misconduct.