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Spotlight: Emerging risks in the property sector
The property sector faces long-established risks from storms and floods to subsidence and fires. However, new risks are constantly emerging and the insurance industry must ensure customers are aware and prepared to face them. This spotlight focuses on the emerging risks in the property sector.
View from the top: Aviva’s Jason Storah on flood-proofing the UK
Aviva’s mapping shows that nearly one in four homes in the UK is already at risk of flooding. There should be no excuse for adding to that by building tomorrow’s problems today. This article argues that stronger planning rules are required to guard against future floods.
Spotlight: Why we need risk management for everyone, not just the 2%
For over 200 years, the insurance industry has understood the benefits of risk management in reducing and controlling exposure. But in a world of evolving risks, the traditional way of making improvements through site surveys creates a fundamental problem, as RiskSTOP’s Nigel Raywood explains.
2024 AI handbook for insurance leaders
AI will touch nearly every aspect of insurance - from broker operations to underwriting to risk management to claims processing and beyond. Insurers that adopt AI effectively will have an insurmountable advantage. This handbook is designed to help insurance leaders navigate the new AI territory.
Why poor data analysis is holding back the London market
Lack of trust in the use of data-driven methods among most London Market underwriters is “the elephant in the room for any competitive insurer”. This article looks at why it’s high time the market addresses this issue.
Is technology the solution to underinsurance?
This article explains why without technology insurers and brokers haven't got a hope in hell of knowing whether a property is underinsured.
Automated claims management: Three pillars of success
In contrast to traditional approaches, automated claims management systems optimise underwriting efficiency with advanced algorithms and machine learning. This blog provides some top tips on how to automate the claims experience for your customers including three key pillars of success.
Transforming the insurance industry with process intelligence
To truly become data-driven, insurers need solutions that make it easy to transform raw information into insights that lead to action. This blog highlights how insurers can leverage process intelligence to optimise key processes across claims management, underwriting and customer service.
Podcast: Scanning the horizon for connected and complex risks
How insurers are scanning the horizon, spotting risks, and pricing services and products appropriately in an increasingly complex, interconnected world is the topic of the latest Insurance Post Podcast. Listen to this podcast to find out more.
CII’s Groves on bridging the climate expectations gap
Tim Groves, programme development and partnership manager at the Chartered Insurance Institute, considers ways to bridge the gap between the risks insurers are able to cover and those the public think they should cover.