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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today unveiled plans to ensure insurance customers pay no more when renewing a policy than they would if they were buying for the first time.

Struggling motor insurers could soon have to contend with an additional threat from Amazon as the tech giant prepares to enter the Indian market, GlobalData has warned.

UK insurers must payout for the majority of business interruption claims made during the COVID-19 pandemic, the High Court has ruled today in a landmark test case.

Kunj Behari Maheshwari and Brian Ring discuss considerations for excluding factors that do not impact insurance cashflows but may influence observable prices in emerging market discount rates

Amerjit Grewal and Matthew Byrne suggest improvements to the current reporting techniques used by reserving actuaries

Ziling Jiang explains how insurers can use the ‘Solvency Sharpe ratio’ to help make good investment decisions

James Sharpe, Nicole Austin and Andrew Rowe of the Extreme Events Working Party consider the economic outcomes that COVID-19 could cause for insurers

The UK's income protection insurance market is forecast to shrink by more than a quarter this year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing the largest drop in employment for over a decade

Australians are “panic buying” life insurance products amid growing concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by GlobalData.

UK insurers have paid £90m to the families of people who have died due to COVID-19, according to new figures, which is equivalent to £980,000 every day.