Aviva
Aviva is one of the largest and most recognised UK insurance brands, with more than 320 years of heritage. As a composite insurer, we can provide customers with a wide range of insurance and savings products - from commercial and personal lines to health insurance and pensions, investments and asset management. Using technology and our expertise we try to prevent bad things from happening to our customers in the first place, helping our 33 million customers defy uncertainty and look to the future with confidence. We are the only large scale, multi-line insurer in the UK, our home market. We also have a strong presence in selected markets in Europe, North America and South-East Asia. We focus on markets where we can achieve scale, profitability and competitive advantage.
InsurTech Futures: Gary Lineker-backed Neos launches home insurance proposition
Start-up says new platform uses over 260 external data sources.
Top 50 2017 - Welcome
Innovative market: The Top 50 Brokers in Personal Lines is full of growing and efficient firms. Brokers are ideally placed for further success in the next 12 months
Holmes praises Aviva’s UK GI organic growth
The UK GI chief says brokers were key to achieving growth in first half of 2017 along with investment into digital.
Aviva GI profits grow and COR improves
Aviva UK & Ireland also reports 17% growth in operating profit to £259m as net written premiums go up and digital investment pays off.
InsurTech Futures: Brolly raises £1m in funding
Start-up broker says seed investment, led by Valar Ventures, Pi Labs and Entrepreneur First, is one of the biggest in the UK InsurTech sector.
The Blog Spot: The changing face of claims
Claims is where insurance shows its true value but is the march of technology going to change things for the better?
InsurTech Futures: Start-up broker Zego raises £1.2m in funding
Pay-as-you-go broker targets drivers working for sharing economy companies.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
Aviva putting 120 people at risk of redundancy was the top clicked on story of the week along with Rural Insurance MD Ian Barclay resigning. Brokers also read about data breaches and Elite being put on negative rating watch.
Aviva redundancies: Insurer says 50% of claims can be serviced online
Brokers agree technology can help claims service but Unite Union slams the job losses.
Aviva puts 120 people at risk of redundancy
Insurer proposing to close Southend office and move commercial property business to Perth.
Ex-Aviva employee gets two year suspended sentence for bribery offences
The woman was found guilty of stealing customer information and also received a compensation order of £4,500.
#Insagepeople: 19 - 25 June 2017
Keep up to date with the latest people moves.
Quizzical questions: 9 June 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
Redundancies, acquisitions, Brexit moves, debt and pulling products top this week’s most clicked on stories.
Brokers criticise Aviva over communication on travel product withdrawal
Brokers say the insurer did not contact them before pulling the plug on stand-alone Multi-Trip.
Aviva stops selling standalone travel product through brokers
Aviva chief distribution officer Phil Bayles says volumes were too low for the product to be commercially sustainable.
Succession planning: Consider consolidation
Consolidation can provide an elegant solution for brokers wanting a smooth transition when they sell their businesses, writes Sam Barrett
Brokers welcome arrival of new FCA GI director Keith Jackson
Jackson has insurer and broking experience at Aviva, Towergate and more recently Aon.
Broking Break: Your Top Five
A real spread of topics has captured the attention of brokers over the past week. Management reorganisations, opinion on Ogden, products, court cases and debt make up the list.
Quizzical Questions: 26 May 2017
Test your knowledge of the week's news with our topical quiz.
InsurTech Futures: Aviva leads £5m investment in Neos
Connected home InsurTech start-up also signs underwriting capacity deal with Munich Re.
InsurTech Futures: Regulation in InsurTech needs to change, says Aviva's Wilson
Aviva group CEO says there's room for brokers as technology evolves.
Aviva stakes claim to industry first with BI calculator and enhanced cover combination
Insurer's research shows that two-thirds of SME customers only take out business interruption cover for 12 months or less.
Blog: Swinton - from high street hero to high street heartbreak
Insurance Age content director Jonathan Swift reflects on Swinton's latest branch closures and puts it in some historical perspective