Ben Norris
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CRE Insurance
Risk managers hope writing is on wall for annual renewal
Leading insurance managers and Airmic are frustrated by the annual renewal process and have called on insurers to streamline a…
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Association News
Hurrell challenges insurance market to use data to remain relevant
The insurance industry must focus on gathering better data and improving risk analysis to offer customers true solutions to complex,…
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Association News
Airmic urges risks managers to update travel risk plans in light of terrorist risk
Only 16% of risk managers have strong confidence in their travel risk plans to protect employees, according to an Airmic…
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Association News
Airmic steps up education programme to boost talent pool
Airmic is partnering with six UK universities and has launched a year-long professional development programme with Cass Business School, in…
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Association News
Risk management and business need millennials
Recent political upheaval demonstrates the need for business and the risk management profession to embrace the younger generation, according to…
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GRM Insurance
Markel combines wholesale and global insurance divisions
Markel has combined its wholesale and global insurance divisions to create a new insurance division, to be named Markel Assurance.…
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CRE Insurance
GDPR could cut cost of cyber crime
Strict new EU data protection laws could ultimately save companies money, reduce cyber crime and help earn the trust of…
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Association News
Airmic and QBE deliver cultural risk assessment tool
Whether it’s poor conduct in the banking sector or emissions-cheating in the automotive industry, failures of corporate culture are not…
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Boards’ grasp of insurance ‘patchy’
Boards do not understand the value of insurance as well as some UK risk and insurance managers would like, with…
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Association News
UK boards properly getting to grips with risk management
Boards of leading UK firms fully understand the value of risk management and no longer regard it as just a…
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CRE Insurance
Enterprise Act adds to buyers’ arsenal
The Enterprise Act is not expected to result in a flood of disputes over late claims payment, but long term…
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CRE People Moves
StarStone appoints Rod O’Malley as head of cargo
StarStone, the global specialty insurer, has announced the appointment of Rod O’Malley as head of cargo in London. Mr O’Malley…
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CRE Risk Management
Business confidence crashes after UK’s hung Parliament
The political uncertainty of a hung parliament in the UK following last week’s general election has led to a crash…
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GRM Insurance
ProSight puts its Lloyd’s syndicate into run-off
US specialty insurer ProSight Specialty has placed its Lloyd's operation into run-off, according to a market bulletin from Lloyd’s corporation.…
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Climate Change
WR Berkley restructures Berkley Specialty forming two units
WR Berkley has announced that it has established two independent specialty operating units – Berkley Entertainment & Sports and Berkley…
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CRE Insurance
EU mutuals report record premiums in excess of €400bn
Mutual insurers in the EU reported premiums totalling €406bn in 2015, a new record for the sector, according to figures…
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GRM Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway unit’s ‘bait and switch’ marketing halted by regulator
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries that used ‘bait and switch’ marketing tactics to sell a workers compensation insurance product have been forced…
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CRE Insurance
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions opens new UK regional office
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has opened an office in Manchester to strengthen its regional presence in the UK commercial insurance…
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GRM Insurance
Hudson Structured and MultiStrat complete workers’ compensation LPT
Investment manager Hudson Structured Capital Management has invested $20.1m in preferred shares in a reinsurance vehicle that will assume $35.3m…
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CRE Insurance
S&P revises AIG’s rating outlook to negative on back of P/C performance
S&P has revised its outlook on AIG to negative from stable, citing below par performance in its commercial property and…