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• Consilium rolls out UK contractors all risks

  02-12-2025 11:04 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Wholesale broker Consilium has launched a UK contractors’ all risks facility through its risk solutions division.
  
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• Non-Financial Misconduct rules and what they mean for the insurance Christmas party

  10-12-2025 17:20 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Isabelle Macfarlane, head of London Markets at Insurance Compliance Services, outlines how incoming NFM guidelines may work in practice as we head into the busy Christmas party season.
  
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• Government’s motor insurance taskforce report sparks ‘fudge’ and ‘credible job’ reactions

  10-12-2025 13:54 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The government has published its Motor Insurance Taskforce Report, whose work has been both praised as a “credible job” and slammed as “rehash” and a “fudge”.
  
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• Howden hires from Gallagher to target $600m space insurance market

  10-12-2025 13:51 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Howden has established a new dedicated space insurance capability led by industry veteran Clive Strickland.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Macbeth’s Paul Macbeth

  10-12-2025 13:50 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Macbeth CEO Paul Macbeth is embarrassed by the behaviour of a small number of brokers and insurer in the soft market and raised an eyebrow at a deal Gallagher didn’t close this year.
  
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• HSB launches hunt for new engineering MD as Dyson retires

  10-12-2025 13:48 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Terry Dyson, the managing director of HSB’s engineering insurance business in the UK and Ireland, has decided to retire at the end of March 2026 after an insurance career spanning 40 years.
  
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• Ex-Simply Business boss joins Admiral-backed SME challenger insurance provider

  10-12-2025 11:43 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Tide has appointed former Simply Business boss and ex-network leader Dan McNally as senior vice president and CEO of Tide Insurance Services.
  
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• Experts underwhelmed by FCA insurance rules simplification

  10-12-2025 11:23 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Market specialists have given a lukewarm welcome to the Financial Conduct Authority’s changes to the insurance rule book, flagging missed opportunities, disappointments and branding the outcome as unlikely to get pulses racing.
  
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• MGA Addept launches SME commercial legal protection solution

  10-12-2025 11:05 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Addept Insurance Services has added a commercial legal protection insurance solution to its expanding portfolio of legal expense products.
  
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• ‘Time:To’ named Biba conference 2026 theme

  10-12-2025 10:51 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The British Insurance Brokers’ Association has unveiled ‘Time:To’ as the theme for its 2026 conference to be held on 13 to 14 May next year.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Claims Consortium Group’s Rob Stewart

  10-12-2025 10:46 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Rob Stewart, commercial director at Claims Consortium Group, hails the surge of tech talent joining traditional broking groups and hopes for a ‘proper summer holiday’ next year.
  
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• Blog: Brokers must rethink their role as supply chain risk reaches new inflection point

  09-12-2025 16:50 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The role of a broker is not simply to place insurance, but to help clients navigate uncertainty with confidence, including anticipating problems before they materialise, argues Nick Smallcorn, managing director of corporate and specialty risks at Clear Group.
  
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• JMG appoints two leaders in widened structure after recent PE investment

  09-12-2025 16:49 via insuranceage.co.uk
  JMG Group has created two new leadership roles, naming Jake Fox CEO of underwriting and speciality, and Neil Forrest CEO of retail.
  
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• Aviva urges brokers to educate SMEs on cyber risks

  09-12-2025 16:09 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Research from Aviva has found 36% of SMEs rank cyber as their most significant risk, with the insurer urging brokers to step in as firms underestimate cyber and other disruptive risks.
  
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• Intact enhances commercial products in first move under new brand

  09-12-2025 15:55 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Intact Insurance has unveiled three enhanced commercial lines products, the first to be launched under its brand in the UK.
  
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• Cyber insurer adds Deepfake Response Endorsement to policies

  09-12-2025 15:32 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Cyber insurance specialist Coalition has added a new Deepfake Response Endorsement to its policies globally, including the UK, it has announced.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Peach’s Ryan Bendelow

  09-12-2025 13:37 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Ryan Bendelow, director of commercial at Peach, is sad to see the RSA name consigned to the insurance brand graveyard, nominates Aviva’s Michelle Taylor as the insurance personality of the year, and is worried about an increase in IPT in 2026.
  
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• Partners& hires managing partner to wellbeing division

  09-12-2025 13:10 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Partners& has hired Tom Klinkenberg from Lockton as managing partner of wellbeing, health and protection.
  
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• Ex-broker/MP Tracey, CII and university team up on insurance talent pilot

  09-12-2025 12:59 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Former MP Craig Tracey will lead a project for the Chartered Insurance Institute as it joins forces with Birmingham City University Business School to launch a 12-month pilot programme designed to strengthen the talent pipeline into the insurance profession.
  
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• FCA confirms insurance rules simplification

  09-12-2025 12:15 via insuranceage.co.uk
  The Financial Conduct Authority has confirmed changes to simplify its rules for brokers and insurers including ongoing training and product reviews and revealed further plans for next year.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: nCino’s Ashleigh Gwilliam

  09-12-2025 11:58 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Ashleigh Gwilliam, director of insurance at nCino calls for more to be done to make insurance careers genuinely attractive to young talent and predicts AI will be handling first-pass underwriting decisions on at least 30% of SME commercial risks by the end of next year.
  
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• PIB updates on progress following aborted Gallagher deal

  09-12-2025 11:26 via insuranceage.co.uk
  PIB Group has revealed its M&A activity will be “exclusively centered” on Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and France next year as it hailed a record 27 deals to September 2025.
  
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• Brookfield’s Oaktree to invest in Allianz insurance risks

  08-12-2025 18:46
  Deal comes amid flurry of private capital tie-ups through Lloyd’s of London market, including Blackstone and AIG
  
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• With Brewis and Mills gone, what can brokers expect from the FCA in 2026?

  08-12-2025 17:06 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Compliance experts are hoping for a slowdown and simplification of rules from the Financial Conduct Authority throughout 2026 following Matt Brewis and Sheldon Mills exit from the regulator. Rosie Simms reports.
  
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• Two in five brokers expect telephone/in-person sales growth despite tech upsurge

  08-12-2025 17:06 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Two fifths of brokers see growing in-person sales as distinguishing factor in an increasingly digital age, according to a survey of commercial and personal lines brokers by Open GI.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Corin Underwriting’s Andy Hurrell

  08-12-2025 15:42 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Corin Underwriting CEO Andy Hurrell outlines the view a softening market rewards discipline; raises an eyebrow about the number of MGAs doubling down on scale over specialism; and advises rather than reacting to the crowd, back your underwriting judgement.
  
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• End of Year Review 2025: Gambit Insurance Solutions’ Ajay Mistry

  08-12-2025 11:12 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Founder and director of Gambit Insurance Solutions and co-Chair of iCAN Ajay Mistry believes small brokers need to be more assertive in the soft market and predicts at least one insurer will launch a product in which over 80% of the commercial underwriting workflow is transparently AI-driven.
  
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• Ex-Jensten duo to launch SME MGA with Mission

  08-12-2025 10:59 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Managing General Agent incubator Mission has announced that it has reached an agreement to support a new team in launching Kovrilo, a UK MGA that will provide a range of commercial insurance products tailored to SME clients.
  
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• Hockey named Ecclesiastical director of schemes and partnerships as Withers leaves

  08-12-2025 10:48 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Ecclesiastical has hired David Hockey as director of schemes and partnerships, as Chris Withers steps down.
  
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• Zurich enhances offering for UK businesses with international operations

  08-12-2025 10:35 via insuranceage.co.uk
  Zurich’s regional teams in nine hubs can now provide multinational insurance for UK business classified as mass risks with exposures in seven European Economic Area territories, Insurance Age can reveal.
  
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