Archive

  • Blockchain confronts the valley of death

    29 November 2017

    Blockchain technology has proven applications in the insurance sector, but can it fulfil its promise to revolutionise the business? Paul Walsh investigates the questions around standards, costs and risks for this emerging technology

  • Zurich limits coal exposure in investment and underwriting

    15 November 2017

    Third major firm to do so after Axa and Scor

  • Swiss and French re/insurers doing most to avoid coal underwriting

    15 November 2017

    Climate activists score insurers on coal and climate change policies

  • Axa announces major reshuffle for 2018

    13 November 2017

    Will help operations be as close as possible to customers, says CEO

  • Insurers set criteria to define driverless cars

    06 November 2017

    UK law will make car manufacturers liable for crashes under vehicle's control

  • Insurers blacklist pirate fishing ships

    09 October 2017

    Movement is part of UN initiative on sustainable marine insurance

  • The EU's top non-life insurers: UK firms slip down rankings

    27 September 2017

    A.M. Best figures show impact of currency depreciation

  • Scor to confront climate campaigners on coal underwriting

    21 September 2017

    Reinsurer's coal disengagement policy has 'many serious loopholes', says Unfriend Coal

  • Driverless lorries to be tested on UK roads

    25 August 2017

    Axa UK says autonomous vehicles could save haulage industry £34bn after 10 years, including insurance

  • Philippines government cedes cat risks to global reinsurers

    16 August 2017

    The new initiative provides the country with $206m in coverage from typhoons and earthquakes