France and Germany on Friday defended Europe’s right to adopt its own legislation on technology after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized European rules on digital services, saying any U.S. coercion would be met with retaliation. Trump on Monday threatened to slap additional tariffs on all countries with digital taxes, legislation or regulations, saying they were … Read more
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Louisiana 20 years ago, the region was ill-prepared for the 125 mph winds and catastrophic flooding that would follow. Louisiana, like the rest of the United States, was still adopting modern international building codes, which had just gone into effect a few years prior. “The good wind protections … Read more
As we count down to Broker Expo in October we caught up with Andy Talbot, director of broker, ATE & marketing at Arag, who asserts that while AI might not be “the future of insurance”, it will affect the future of everything, not least insurance. Why should delegates come and visit your stand? The need to … Read more
Nicola George, MD of Allianz Personal Broker, is to leave the business in Q4, the insurer has announced. She took over from Mike Crane as managing director of LV Broker in April 2024, just before the brand reverted to Allianz Personal Broker a month later, a rebrand she hailed as a success in an interview … Read more
Subsidence-related insurance claims totalled £153m in the first half of 2025, the Association of British Insurers has confirmed. The trade body calculated that over the first six months of the year, insurers supported almost 9,000 households in recovering from subsidence damage, with the average payout per claim standing at £17,264. The ABI’s figures follow unusually … Read more