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Fitch neutral on UK insurers for 2026 but echoes motor losses warning

Fitch’s sector outlook for the UK non-life company market in 2026 is neutral, unchanged from 2025.

By Emmanuel Kenning

Deloitte forecasts home insurers will slide back to losses in 2026 after profits in 2025

By Emmanuel Kenning

EY offers gloomier forecast for 2026 motor market with latest analysis

By Insurance Age staff

Strong solvency means insurers have capacity for M&A, says Fitch

By Emmanuel Kenning

Interview: Meet the Biba drone scheme providers who want to double the business and crack the US market

With 80,000 UK policyholders and a renewed Biba scheme under their belts, Coverdrone leaders Phil and Andrew Heath are bullish about doubling the business over the next two years and have long-term international expansion plans.

By Emmanuel Kenning

People Moves: 19 – 23 January 2026

Follow the latest personnel moves in insurance.

By Rosie Simms

IPT receipts to hit record-high £9bn

Annual income from the Insurance Premium Tax in 2025/26 is set to break through last year’s record, coming just shy of £9bn, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility’s Autumn Budget projections.

By Rosie Simms

‘Softening’ of language offers Zurich hope over Beazley deal, say analysts after latest bid rejection

The sixth time could be the charm and a Zurich takeover of Beazley is still possible, according to analysts at Jefferies who have put forward a potential top price of 1,408 pence per share.

By Emmanuel Kenning

CII insurance virtual work experience programme tops 2,300 participants

Over 2,300 students have engaged with an insurance virtual work experience programme since it was launched in October 2023, the Chartered Insurance Institute has revealed.

By Insurance Age staff

Blog: Can Biba sustain the momentum?

Biba's CEO, Graeme Trudgill, has hailed the organisation’s 2025 Manifesto as “the most successful one Biba has ever undertaken”. The question now is whether the trade body can maintain this impetus amid ambitious aspirations.

By Rosie Simms

Liiba lists 2026 agenda

The London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association has put accelerating growth in a softening market and reinforcing London’s position as the world’s leading specialty insurance centre at the heart of its agenda for 2026.

By Insurance Age staff

Hedron to support brokers on ‘talent crunch’

Hedron Network has launched Hedron People, a support framework to help independent brokers attract new talent, develop existing teams, and retain key staff.

By Rosie Simms

Insight

Inflexion and Ascend look to build ‘home where best brokers want to be’

Dominic Clark, investment director at Inflexion has targeted building the home the best brokers want to join, after buying Ascend Broking Group.

By Rosie Simms

Interview: Phil Barton and Ewan MacDonald, Partners&

Partners& leaders Phil Barton and Ewan MacDonald on phase three of the broker as it hits profitability ahead of schedule and plans to near double in the next three years.

By Emmanuel Kenning

Robins Row boss reveals details of buying liquidated broker’s renewal rights

Peter Evelyn, managing director of Robins Row, has shared how the deal to acquire MPI Brokers’ renewal rights came to be and revealed the size of the book.

By Rosie Simms

The numbers that reveal the true extent of the 2025 broker deal slump

The number of UK broker deals halved in 2025 to the lowest level in the three years since Insurance Age started its interactive map series, with the fall coming despite the number of buyers remaining steady.