CLAIMS NEWS
- UK commits £62 million to flood defence
- Clyde & Co expands casualty insurance group with partner hire
- QuestGates creates arboricultural liability hub
- Algorithms: From claims automation to emerging risk
- AXA XL targets coverholders with promotion
- New Dawn Risk launches segmented cyber solution for UK market
- Consumer Intelligence reveals home insurance price increase
- TGG receives investment boost for telematics expansion
- Marsh boosts cyber and digital asset capabilities
- MLA earns Tier 1 MedCo status
- ACSO lands six new members and aims for 50
- Crawford & Company names Clive Nicholls successor
- Thornton Tomasetti hires former Aviva Insurance manager
- CMCs must raise advertising standards, warns FCA
- Morrison and ARAG launch cover for special guardians
- ABI reveals 2018 fraud cases and figures
- Cyber crime cost to soar, finds Juniper Research
- ThingCo launches next gen telematics device
- Weightmans uncovers dishonesty of ‘injured’ hiker
- GlobalData: Young drivers pay more despite telematics
- Willis Towers Watson: Motor claims inflation rises
- Kennedys appoints first global managing partner
- 1st Central partners with the RAC
- Home & Legacy launches online claims portal
- Allianz Insurance creates digital claims role
- ABI: Cyber payout rate high but uptake too low
- Wrisk names new CEO
- DAC Beachcroft recruits seven-strong team
- Injury-hit Premier League teams count the cost
- Travel insurance startup Pluto partners with Blink
- DWF automates fixed recoverable costs claims
- Former AIG claims handler jailed for fraud
- New sales director strengthens Claims Consortium Group
- Discount rate change a mixed bag of risks and returns
- Powered by Trov launches
- Bought By Many offers vet video consults to pet owners
- Willis Towers Watson offers plan for drone disruption
- Gallagher Bassett acquires Adjusting Associates
- MoneySuperMarket warns pet owners at risk of voiding car insurance
- BLM secures fundamental dishonesty ruling
- Autoglass BodyRepair partners with Hastings Direct
- Slater and Gordon UK returns to profitability
- GoCompare to cover excess up to £250 in the event of a claim
- Jardine Motors expands 16-year partnership with AX
- Motor insurance costs rise once again, finds ABI
- McLarens bolsters UK and Ireland leadership with new appointment
- ABI names Jon Dye as its new chair
- Sedgwick strengthens international operations
- Life insurance provider reviti joins Insurtech UK
- CFC appoints cyber claims director
- Fraud solutions provider FRISS opens UK office
- Monzo teams up with AXA Partners
- AGL appoints Tesco Underwriting director
- MSL teams up with Bike Devil
- ABI slams ‘misleading’ discount rate impact assessment
- geo and Magenta Insurance named as finalists at Broker Innovation Awards
- Frenkel Topping: New rate, new certainty
- NHS claims steady but costs rise, reports NHS Resolution
- Clinical Negligence Debate 2020 confirmed
- Ageas appoints new chief risk officer for UK
- More reaction to discount rate change
- Discount rate of -0.25% comes into effect
- Davies Group completes second acquisition of 2019
- DAC Beachcroft develops AI tool for liability assessment
- First4Lawyers: Consumers could embrace comparison websites for legal services
- MGA model increasingly attractive in London market
- EQL launches AI physiotherapist
- Broker Innovation Awards finalists revealed
- Plexus Law secures lateral hires from Kennedys
- Markerstudy secures crash-for-cash convictions
- BLM partners with LSE to create new AI insurance tool
- Amanda Blanc resigns from Zurich
- Harrison Associates earns third CARF accreditation
- Price Forbes security practice launches
- Rob Smale joins Claims Consortium Group board
- HCML strengthens spinal and catastrophic injury team
- AX identifies new hide and crash scam
- Wrisk and Allianz Automotive team up
- Lloyd’s underwriters eye up uninsurable risks
- Director gets 12-year ban after agricultural insurance fraud
- Nexus Group brings in van der Veer to manage MGAs
- Ecclesiastical reports on risks in charity sector
- Suspended prison sentences for crash-for-cash trio
- Potter Rees Dolan promotes four to partner
- Hiscox develops cyber exposure calculator
- Lemonade launches product for renters in Europe
- North P&I Club appoints new deputy global claims directors
- Royal London met 99% of claims last year
- Inland flood defences save £1.1 billion, finds new research
- Former Lego exec joins Zurich to elevate customer excellence
- Motorway crash-for-cash fraudsters heading to prison
- Crawford & Company names UK chief client officer
- DAC Beachcroft launches virtual crisis room
- Court of Appeal affirms MiB car accident liability on private land
- British Claims Awards 2019 winners revealed
- Plastic Surgeon leader joins BDMA executive committee
- QuestGates strengthens international partnership
- SAS and Octo Telematics team up for insurance IoT
- Crawford & Company hires global relationship leaders
- IFED debriefs insurers on commercial property fraud
- Value of general insurance claims fraud falling, finds Aviva
- ABI: Motor theft claims soared in Q1 2019
- Insurtech UK welcomes new members
- Zurich UK paid 99% of claims in 2018
- Brokers and SMEs far apart on cyber risks, says Sedgwick
- ARAG relaunches motor product ready for Civil Liability Act
- BIBA and Pool Re launch new guide to terrorism insurance
- New dashcam app to revolutionise post-accident procedure
- Express Solicitors makes RTA promotions
- Kennedys promotes several insurance lawyers
- Time will tell on whiplash reform savings
- Video streaming comes to Lorega claims service
- APIL names new leaders
- BIBA 2019: Claims are a journey, not just a promise
- SIR from Hiscox expands to cover business integrity risks
- Insurercore and BIBA develop platform for brokers
- ACSO calls for investigation into progress of small claims portal
- CNA Hardy enhances cyber proposition
- Liberty Specialty Markets appoints new claims manager
- Fundamental dishonesty findings reach 500
- IGI launches protection for ‘expensive’ IP disputes
- UK rental market insurer Urban Jungle secures seed funding
- DAC Beachcroft promotes 13 insurance lawyers
- New Ecclesiastical tool to ease broker risk discussion with educators
- McLarens hires David Pigot for new London market role
- RSA revamps UK and Ireland management team
- Adrian Flux sticks with Coplus for motor claims
- Allianz to close Woking and Luton offices
- Meet the finalists of the British Claims Awards 2019
- 125 AXA UK claims jobs at risk following operational changes
- Azur chooses ARAG for wealthy client household product
- Keoghs and LV= prosecute fraudsters targeting elderly drivers
- Augmented analytics: The Human-AI hybrid
- Protection of pets climbs to all-time high
- Volvo cars to share data on slippery road conditions and hazards
- Newly rebranded handl Group acquires Harrison Associates
- Aviva CEO shakes up leadership as Briggs departs
- MoJ considers expanded whiplash role for MedCo
- Van Ameyde acquires UK marine consultancy
- Success fees decision leaves bad taste
- Car insurance price rises in reverse, finds Confused.com
- Insurdata receives $3 million in funding to support development
- Inzura partners with dash cam maker to develop integrated telematics
- DAC Beachcroft establishes base in Northern Ireland
- Horwich Farrelly issues claims acceptance league table warning
- BIBA members get access to Waterlock
- Auger expands with nine hires
- Millstream adopts CEGA medical screening tool
- Evolution chooses Iotatech Claims
- Fenchurch Law to hold regional symposiums for brokers
- From monkey business to horse play: Aviva reveals weird claims of 2018
- FCA accuses general insurers of continuing to fail customers
- Birth injuries, paternal depression and secondary victim claims
- Allianz appoints motor damage strategy manager
- NHS fraudster sentenced to five months in prison
- Sedgwick appoints chief client officer for international division
- McLarens creates chief commercial officer role
- ERS soups up claims service for prestige clients
- Slip-and-trip fraudster falls foul of law
- Plexus Law receives private equity investment boost
- Where there’s a will, there’ll be fraudulent claims
- DAC Beachcroft names new head of global insurance practice
- ThingCo launches connected car service
- Supreme Court clarifies vehicle use
- ABI: Vehicle crime surge costs £1 million per day
- Allianz appoints new head of motor
- Lloyd’s managing agent Coverys appoints new head of claims
- Services to the policyholder: BCA 19 judges give their views
- EU acts to make European roads safer
- ARAG and Clarke Willmott discuss ATE partnerships: WATCH
- Premex+ gets new managing director
- Willis Re appoints new head of London market reinsurance claims
- Sedgwick investigators increasingly coming up against cyber claims fraudsters
- Horwich Farrelly and Aviva secure key fundamental dishonesty ruling
- CII creates a riot claims guide
- Insurance broker Thomas Carroll launches claims app
- The customer must always be in sight
- 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
- Aspen appoints new CEO in UK
