12/31/2020 12:16:43 PM Big questions for Big Tech and for Insurers/Brokers in 2021 By Mike Daly Regulation and retention will determine whether Facebook, Google, Alibaba and their peers continue to clean up Retention of key staff...
12/30/2020 5:00:12 PM State Farm to require DRP auto body shops to use CCC by April 1, 2021 By Mike Daly Not quite an ecosystem but a step in the way. CCC has worked with State Farm for more than 25 years and has worked with most of the...
12/29/2020 12:00:00 AM Admiral to sell Confused.com to Zoopla in £508m deal By Mike Daly First GoCompare and now Confused.com sold. Future, Britain’s biggest magazines publisher, swooped on price comparison site GoCompare...
12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM Do virtual assessments have a role as an alternative to face-to-face assessments in quantum cases? By Mike Daly 2020 has changed everything and clients, investigators, expert witnesses, health/property/vehicle and other professional experts together...
12/17/2020 5:51:02 PM Are point solutions INCREASING complexity for insurers? By Mike Daly Insurers may look at their challenges as a shopping list of requirements and then seek each of the ingredients on the list. That’s fine...
12/15/2020 8:55:23 PM Life insurer LV sells itself to Bain Capital for £530m By Mike Daly UK group demutualises as private equity funds take a growing interest in the sector LV, one of the UK’s largest and oldest mutually owned...
12/14/2020 12:53:40 PM Extreme weather causes surge in solar power insurance costs By Mike Daly Hailstorms, wildfires and tornadoes have caused underwriters to restrict terms for renewable project owners, according to industry...
12/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Flipping the odds of transformation success in your favour By Mike Daly "Successful digital transformations are rare. But companies that get six factors right can flip the odds of success from 30% to 80%." BCG...
12/7/2020 1:35:14 PM Theatres hit by lack of Covid insurance as London’s West End reopens By Mike Daly Producers focus on smaller shows to mitigate the financial risk of cancellations The curtain will go up across London’s West End this...
12/3/2020 11:35:48 AM Detected Insurance Fraud - new data shows that every five minutes a fraudulent claim is discovered By Mike Daly You could not make it up – but they did. Every five minutes a fraudulent insurance claim is uncovered. 107,000 fraudulent insurance...
12/1/2020 8:11:28 PM U.S. P/C industry’s underwriting income falls by 86% in 9M 2020: AM Best By Mike Daly Analysis by ratings agency A.M Best finds that in the first nine months of 2020, the U.S. property / casualty insurance industry saw its...
12/1/2020 12:00:00 AM Reputation is ‘hidden’ claims cost insurers must mitigate By Mike Daly A customer’s bad claims experience and the overall reputation of the insurer can have a correlating impact on claims costs, agreed expert...
11/25/2020 3:04:28 PM Future to buy GoCompare in deal valuing comparison site at £594m By Mike Daly Magazine publisher has increasingly focused on ecommerce to drive revenue "GoCompare lists prices for services such as car and home...
11/23/2020 11:03:56 AM Zurich Insurance nears $4B deal for MetLife unit By Mike Daly Zurich Insurance’s U.S. footprint currently includes Farmers Group, an administrator of insurance policies for Farmers Insurance. Zurich...
11/23/2020 12:00:00 AM Private equity groups close in on AA takeover bid By Mike Daly Warburg Pincus and TowerBrook offer 35p a share in non-binding proposal for debt-laden company The AA has been speaking to potential...
11/21/2020 11:13:23 AM What 8 Months of COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Digital Transformation By Tim Hughes In a recent blog, Eric Doyle here at DLA Ignite tells a tale of two companies. While I'm sure the tale is fiction, I do know it's based...