Dates for the Diary in 2018
Personal Injury Awards – 28 November, The Hilton, Deansgate, Manchester
CLAIMS NEWS
- FORCE is strong in Shift, investors find
- Clocks starts on changes to personal injury discount rate
- FOIL establishes new cyber and digital liabilities team
- McLarens opens real estate-focused office
- DAC Beachcroft pilots new online platform in ‘live claims’ setting
- 360Globalnet rolls out digital claims platform upgrades
- Carphone Warehouse fined almost £30 million for mis-selling
- Woman ‘cuts off’ own hand to make fraudulent claim
- Sedgwick acquires media and entertainment loss adjuster
- Weightmans forms cyber unit to assist businesses and insurers
- First4Lawyers: Qamar Anwar questions part 2 LASPO review
- Boxer’s £300 fine ‘lenient’, says Allianz fraud manager
- Zurich recognised for customer satisfaction
- Block by blockchain: Karim Derrick gives a status update on the technology
- Aviva appoints new chief executive officer
- Switalskis recruits traumatic brain injury specialist
- Inchcape selects AX for accident aftercare service
- CFC appoints new chief technology officer
- Subsidence claims rise could curtail home insurance price cuts
- DAC Beachcroft strengthens national claims solutions business with new partner
- Four men sentenced for stealing and selling AXA customer data
- Theft of funds claims climb in the UK, finds CFC Underwriting
- Carpenters becomes associate ABI member
- Court rules on PPOs for immunotherapy in mesothelioma claims
- HCML names new chief medical director
- BLM uses iManage RAVN Extract to make claim outcome predictions
- Charles Taylor Adjusting makes several international moves
- UK government funds AI claims fraud detector
- RAC signs three-year deal with Slater and Gordon
- Stretched judiciary lacks resources to deal with autonomous vehicles, says Kennedys
- CoreLogic incorporates WeGoLook loss adjuster network
- Gareth Howell to leave AXA Retail role
- Pen Underwriting re-engineers water claims process
- Ghost broker jailed for providing fake car insurance to criminals
- Ascot and Beazley launch £40m insurtech-linked cargo consortium
- World Cup injuries take their toll on Premier League clubs, finds JLT Specialty
- Chubb promotes Julie Chalmers to regional claims director role
- Covéa hires chief technology and information officer
- LMA chief executive Cameron calls for a seamless digital marketplace
- RSA and and Audatex develop digital system for pet claims
- Aon and Claim Central partner for claims insurtech
- Cost of home contents insurance falls yet one in four are uninsured, finds ABI
- Allianz saved £64.75 million in 2018 through counter fraud
- National Accident Helpline set to launch new law firm
- Price Slater Gawne opts for ARAG after-the-event insurance
- Commercial & General signs up to Iotatech Claims
- Harry, Bert and Lenny bots ease AXA workload
- Keoghs calls for graduated driving licences to protect young motorists
- Allianz automates Ministry of Justice Stage 3 claims with AI platform
- QBE appoints new director of motor
- Keyless entry leaving hundreds of popular cars open to theft
- QuestGates appoints international development manager
- CII launches Society of Claims Professionals
- Canadian investor takes minority stake in Davies Group
- Online flight booking service opts for Setoo personalised insurance platform
- Man who made fraudulent claims in friends’ names sentenced
- Markerstudy picks up Co-op underwriting business for £185 million
- Hilary Meredith Solicitors brings first case to test MoD’s duty to protect against Q fever
- Mactavish finds ‘significant flaws’ in cyber cover
- Davies Group acquires TopMark Claims Management for public sector capabilities
- IFB and SAS fight fraud with industry-scale intelligence database
- Zurich UK chooses BAE Systems solution to counter fraud
- P.R. Hanna Solicitors names new personal injury partner
- Crawford & Co promotes Andrew Bart to head of GTS
- New customer experience director for RSA
- Hiscox names new UK CEO
- Marsh makes new appointments ahead of JLT acquisition
- Discount rate change expected within eight months
- Aon poll shows SMEs blind to risk of cyber attacks and data loss
- FCA issues new rules for CMCs ahead of regulation next year
- Crash-for-cash pair who ‘wasted’ emergency services’ time sentenced
- Gallagher Bassett acquires Property Claims Management Services
- Fires and explosions cause largest losses for business, finds AGCS
- FOIL confirms Anthony Baker as vice president
- LMA Gemini launches to track claims expert costs
