Travel insurance
Biba renews holiday travel scheme with Syndicate DTW1991
Trade body extends relationship for a further three years.
Schemes and insurers jet in for brokers after Ageas’ partial travel exit
Providers “hungry” for business.
Ageas in partial withdrawal from travel
Insurer to close online broker travel facility but keep schemes.
Insurance Cares: FCA challenges industry to help vulnerable customers access insurance
Regulator to work with the sector to make it easier for people with pre-existing medical conditions to access specialist travel insurance providers.
Insurance Cares: “Revolutionary” HIV travel policy launched
Emerald Life has set up the cover and says it is the first policy that does not require customers to declare HIV as a pre-existing condition.
Insurance complaints to Financial Ombudsman hold steady in 2017/18
But organisation warns over loyalty and telematics complaints.
In Person: AllClear CEO Chris Rolland
The new boss on the travel specialist broker’s private equity backers, buying businesses and plans to double the firm organically
Jackson Lee unveils business travel product
Policy, underwritten by a Lloyd’s syndicate, is available through the MGA's online broker facility.
ABI calls on FCA to use new personal lines principles when supervising firms
Biba encourages brokers to help solve the dual pricing problem.
Biba and ABI team up to tackle dual pricing in personal lines
Trade bodies state that members will give board and senior management level priority to better outcomes for long-standing customers.
InsurTech Futures: Gadget and motor products go live on Brolly
Broker says smartphone app will help customers find "better options" for cover using AI.
Interview: Staysure’s Ryan Howsam
The chairman tells Insurance Age how the business has developed since its inception ten years ago and outlines its plans for growth.
AllClear sells majority stake to Synova Capital
Travel broker appoints Chris Rolland as CEO and reveals plans to hire 30 new staff.
InsurTech Futures: Axa launches automatic compensation for late flights product
The product uses blockchain technology and will be available to UK brokers from 2018.
Financial Surety launches travel facility
Products include cover for airline failure, supplier failure and terrorism.
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Zurich buys travel disruptor Halo
The deal to buy the car rental insurance platform was for an undisclosed sum.
Leaving the EU without a deal not acceptable, warns ABI
Trade association says that if no Brexit deal is in place insurers may not be able to continue to meet the needs of millions customers and remain legally compliant.
Broking Break - Your Top Five
Queen's Speech, FCA probe on travel insurance for cancer patients, Admiral's renewal handling failures, launch of new MGA incubator and details of new CII qualification make up your top five stories of the week.
FCA probes travel insurance cover for cancer patients
The watchdog is seeking views from firms and looking for the reasons behind pricing differences.
Broking Break: Your top five of the week
Redundancies, acquisitions, Brexit moves, debt and pulling products top this week’s most clicked on stories.
Brokers criticise Aviva over communication on travel product withdrawal
Brokers say the insurer did not contact them before pulling the plug on stand-alone Multi-Trip.
Aviva stops selling standalone travel product through brokers
Aviva chief distribution officer Phil Bayles says volumes were too low for the product to be commercially sustainable.
SME Now and the future: Targeting terror
Travel and terrorism insurance for employees is not just a perk for big multi-nationals, it is an often essential cover for small businesses too, explains Edward Murray