Industry-owned imarket has pushed further into the managing general agent sector with Chapman and Stacey Underwriting launching a liability product onto Open GI’s platform via its service. The rollout is the first MGA product Read More
Ecclesiastical Insurance has reported it uncovered £3m in fraudulent claims during 2025, down from the more than £4m detected in 2024. In 2025 Ecclesiastical’s claims team investigated over 280 cases of suspected fraudulent activity, a 20% increase on 2024. The Read More
AIG has completed the acquisitions of strategic minority ownership stakes in specialty insurer and reinsurer Convex Group and global asset manager Onex Corporation. Following regulatory approvals AIG now owns an approximately 35% equity interest in Convex (Read More
Lucida Group has appointed former Allianz personal lines broker boss Nicola George as group chief underwriting officer. She will succeed the current CUO and founder Mike Joseph, who is retiring at the end of March 2026. Read More
The Financial Conduct Authority has warned of two clones claiming to be Covertime and UK Insurance, part of the Direct Line Group. The regulator revealed on 2 February that fraudsters had been using the website speedysure.Read More
Stay in the loop with the latest insurance personnel moves. Featuring: Gallagher, Pen Underwriting, Liberty and HSB. Ross Mackay joins Gallagher Gallagher has recruited Ross Mackay as head of its Glasgow office, where he will Read More
Managing general agent Commercial Express has struck a capacity partnership with Fortegra, Insurance Age can reveal. Fortegra is replacing the AmTrust schemes with all existing policies now transferring to Fortegra at renewal. It has launched Read More
Nick Hobbs, chief distribution officer at Allianz UK, tells Insurance Age about the importance of the provider’s regional footprint now including broker hubs, the challenges of the soft market and its MGA appetite as Read More
Tom Draper, managing director of Coalition UK, assesses four threats that show the dynamic nature of cyber risk to brokers and their clients, highlighting cybersecurity cannot be a once-a-year questionnaire or a box-ticking exercise at Read More
The commercial insurance market in the UK softened by 7% in the final quarter of last year, in its eighth drop in a row, according to research by Marsh. The decline was the biggest measured in 2025, Read More