Insurance news

• Analysing 'grey data' more will help fight against fraud

  22-01-2016 16:53
  
  Latest Hill Dickinson Claims and Fraud Index shows value of probing grey data
  
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• Blog: Poorly drafted MoJ Portal rules promote claims incubation

  22-01-2016 14:19
  
  Glyn Thompson Postonline Relentless and often ill thought through changes to the civil procedural rules over recent years have acclimatised users to accepting poorly drafted rules which then require correction while in operation.
  
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• CII launches website to attract women to insurance

  22-01-2016 13:25
  
  Website aimed specifically at women returning to work after a career break.
  
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• AXA launches SME product for retailers on Open GI

  22-01-2016 12:41
  
  New offering provides cover for more than 250 trades with turnover of up to £2.5m
  
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• Quizzical questions: 22 January 2016

  22-01-2016 12:39
  
  Test your knowledge of the week’s news with our topical news quiz.
  
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• Laing made Aon Benfield Fac CEO

  22-01-2016 12:30
  Andrew Laing has been appointed CEO of Aon Benfield Fac, filling a
  role left vacant since Paul Summers resigned last June, sister
  title Inside FAC revealed yesterday (21
  January).
  His appointment, which is effective immediately, sees Laing take
  responsibility for all facultative reinsurance across Aon's
  Risk business, which includes Aon Benfield and Aon Risk Solutions
  (ARS). He will report to Aon Benfield CEO Eric Andersen.
  Laing was previously chief broking officer of the ARS Global
  Broking Cen
  
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• CII launches women's careers website

  22-01-2016 12:18
  
  Site aimed at attracting women returning to work after a career break
  
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• Axa launches Retailers SME product on Open GI

  22-01-2016 12:11
  
  Insurer plans to further enhance its e-trading strategy.
  
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• ABI adds new role to focus on devolved nations

  22-01-2016 12:05
  
  Peta Fuller Postonline The Association of British Insurers has created a new role to specialise in policy for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
  
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• Lark gains chartered broker status

  22-01-2016 11:46
  
  MD says there has been a ‘big increase’ in number of qualified people at company
  
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• The last word on the 2016 Biba Manifesto?

  22-01-2016 11:25
  
  Jonathan Swift calls for more digital focus in 2017.
  
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• IFED confirms Oliver Little as new lead

  22-01-2016 11:14
  
  Police unit has seized more than £1.3m from insurance fraudsters since 2012.
  
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• Quiz of the week - 22 January 2016

  22-01-2016 11:00
  
  Katie Marriner Postonline Test your knowledge of the week's insurance news, with the Post insurance quiz of the week.
  
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• Broking Break: The regulation game

  22-01-2016 10:55
  
  Steve Blott, chief risk officer at UK General Insurance, covers off the top regulation issues brokers need to consider in 2016.
  
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• Helios acquires Devon Underwriting

  22-01-2016 10:53
  AIM-listed Lloyd's private capacity provider Helios
  Underwriting has acquired Devon Underwriting, a limited liability
  member of Lloyd's, for £1.1mn, it announced today (22
  January).
  Devon has 2016 underwriting capacity of £1.2mn, compared
  with Helios' 2016 capacity of £28.1mn prior to the
  acquisition. Helios will provide Fund's at Lloyd's of
  approximately £0.7mn.
  Commenting on the acquisition, Helios CEO Nigel Hanbury said:
  "This is in line with our stated strategy of acq
  
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• ‘High-cost' and unadaptable L&G site to close in 2018

  22-01-2016 10:38
  
  Katie Marriner Postonline Legal & General has announced it intends to close its Kingswood office in 2018 due to it being the least responsive site to current "changing business demands".
  
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• Direct Line telematics data reveals safest driver regions

  22-01-2016 09:19
  
  Experts say analysis shows telematics can bring in a new era of data-led underwriting 
  
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• Digital revolution triggered office closure and job losses – L&G

  22-01-2016 08:56
  
  Home insurer reveals plans to close flagship Kingswood site by 2018
  
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• Dulwich Village is burglary hotspot of Britain, says Moneysupermarket

  22-01-2016 07:30
  
  Analysis of insurance claims reveals south London enclave has highest rate of theft, while Harbury in Warwickshire has the lowest
  The well-heeled residents of Dulwich Village, a wealthy enclave in south London, suffer the worst burglary rate in Britain, with homes 87 times more likely to be broken into than the country’s safest village, Harbury near Leamington Spa. The figures come from an analysis of 2m home insurance applications by comparison site Moneysupermarket.com.Continue reading..
  
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• Insurers face political pressure to hand whiplash savings to customers

  22-01-2016 07:00
  
  Westminster debates whether insurers will pass on savings from whiplash crackdown 
  
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