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Friday Round-Up: Insurance Post wraps up the major insurance deals, launches, investments and strategic moves of the week.
Cracking down on insurance fraud: How the industry is fighting back
As fraudsters continue to develop sophisticated schemes, insurers are rising to the challenge by leveraging advanced detection technologies and investigative tools to identify and prevent more fraud.
Careless to target influencers with cyber product
Newly launched lifestyle insurance brand Careless plans to create an individual cyber insurance product targeted at influencers.
Employment law update
The upcoming changes to employment law in the UK for 2025 are set to bring significant transformations to the workplace and have far-reaching consequences for businesses.
Podcast: AI's fundamental shift in insurance operations
What’s the insurance industry’s favourite two letters? It’s ‘AI,’ as AI technology is transforming insurance with efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and enhanced customer experience.
Achieving truly intelligent automation: Key takeaways from Insurance Innovators Nordics
At the recent Insurance Innovators event in Copenhagen, industry experts got together to talk about how automation is shaking up workflows, making processes smoother, and improving customer experience.
AI could lower the bar for start-up insurtech founder expertise
Artificial intelligence could enable more insurtech start-up activity from founders with insurance backgrounds, as opposed to tech expertise.
Little less conversation and a lot more insurtech action please
Editor’s View: The Labour government’s insurtech ambition would be laughable if it wasn’t so delusional, argues Emma Ann Hughes.
Income protection insurance: The new cost of living cover?
Income protection insurance plays a critical role in in providing financial support when individuals are unable to work due to illness or injury.
ManyPets expects to post profit after £33m loss
ManyPets expects to post a profit for the last few months after making a £33m loss in the year to 31 March 2024.
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Big Interview: Jimmy Williams, Urban Jungle
Urban Jungle CEO and co-founder Jimmy Williams talks Insurance Post through the insurtech’s growth plans, ability to fundraise in a challenging environment and venture capital-enabled technology advances.
Innovating insurance with persona-based insights and tools
Insurers face growing pressure to deliver smarter, personalised, data-driven experiences to relevant personas including brokers, customers and employers.
21 businesses vie for a place in latest cohort for Lloyd’s Lab
The Lloyd’s Lab held a pitch day for its 14th cohort earlier this week, with 21 businesses vying for a spot in the 10-week accelerator programme.
Trust in AI
Polarisation between AI’s doomsayers and its evangelists may have abated but the technology still promises enormous rewards alongside great risks.
Q&A: Sivan Iram, Flow Specialty
Sivan Iram, CEO and co-founder of Flow Specialty, shares with insurance Post the reasoning behind launching an artificial intelligence broker agent, as well as how the firm retains its quality.
The case of the missing millions: Understanding data quality in reinsurance
When it comes to reinsurance claims recovery, spreadsheets are filled with manual calculations, data is scattered across multiple systems, and millions in recoveries have vanished.
Spring Statement 2025: What insurers should know
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her 2025 Spring Statement today (26 March) with a mix of spending cuts, investment pledges, and economic forecasts.
British Insurance Technology Awards is open for entries
The prestigious British Insurance Technology Awards are now open for entries.
Zurich’s Clayton says let tech guide your fraud teams
Zurich’s head of fraud Scott Clayton has urged the industry to keep counter fraud a “people business”, but to allow technology to act as a guide.
GenAI in insurance: A roadmap for digital transformation
Generative AI (GenAI) has emerged as a disruptive force in the insurance industry, capable of revolutionising underwriting, claims processing, fraud detection, and more.
Zego CEO predicts fully autonomous motoring ‘within 40 years’
Sten Saar, CEO of Zego, has said a “fully autonomous world is coming”, and that it will be here in 40 years as a “worst-case scenario”.
Miller flags Trump’s impact on parametrics
Alice Glenister, head of parametrics at Miller, has called for the market to develop more data sources outside the US due to President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal scientific research bodies.
Hiscox offers update on plan for genAI underwriting
Hiscox and Google Cloud have shared plans to introduce generative artificial underwriting to more lines of business and explained what it took to get it working last year for terrorism cover.
Innovate and evolve: How to win the 2030 insurance technology challenge
The insurance industry has always been built on risk management, but what if the biggest risk now is standing still?