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• Electric vehicles pose problems as insurers charge up for net zero

  13 December 2023

  The shift towards EVs presents new risks for insurers, but also an opportunity as a means for reaching net-zero targets, as Joshua Geer reports

• LV= loses Emily Penn to Macquarie Group

  04 October 2022

  She was capital and investment director at the UK life insurer

• UK flood insurers introduce "Build Back Better" scheme

  14 April 2022

  Insurers will pay for homeowners to improve resilience to flooding

• LV's demutualisation: what kind of capital(ism) do you want?

  16 November 2021

  EDITORIAL: Christopher Cundy comments on the UK insurer's plans to sell and restructure its business

• UK government refuses to intervene in LV demutualisation plans

  16 September 2021

  "A matter for regulators and courts", says John Glen MP

• Access to capital not the only issue in LV= sale, says FCA chair

  14 May 2021

  Charles Randell discussed with MPs the issues facing UK mutuals

• Mutuals' deferred shares could have saved LV= from demutualising

  15 December 2020

  With the British life insurer planning to demutualise with the £530m sale of its business, Cintia Cheong talks to AFM chief Martin Shaw about the prospects for the mutual sector in the UK

• LV= holds exclusive takeover talks with Bain Capital

  05 October 2020

  A deal is said to be valued at more than £500m

• LV= confirms takeover talks with several parties

  28 September 2020

  Detailed negotiations are said to be happening with Royal London

• LV= General Insurance to cut around 600 jobs

  28 July 2020

  Plan to integrate it with GI business acquired from Legal & General