Insurance Post Podcast

From supply chains disruption to social distancing and repair shops, the pandemic has caused presented unprecedented challenges to the supply of car parts to the UK and how repairs are conducted following government guidelines.   In the middle of all this disruption the customer is looking for a quick and cost-effective repair process. Has Brexit planning helped the supply networks...

From the way it has revolutionised safety in the cars to the infrastructure around the country, digital tools are supporting the continued efforts to push for ever better standards on our roads. Join Jonathan Swift, Insurance Post content director, and Adrian Ryan, CEO, and Colin Butler, advisor, of a new technology start-up Road How, to find out more about improving driver knowledge and awar...

It is the year 2030. Following the success of 2019’s Blueprint One and 2025’s Blueprint Two [which also co-opted in the IUA and broader stakeholder representation], Lloyd’s and the wider London market is now ready for the highly anticipated third iteration. While Lloyd’s had previously had a poor history of making change successful, many commentators admit that under the auspices of CEO John...

Join Jonathan Swift, Insurance Post content director, and Jaime Hassall, team leader at Highways England, to discuss how road safety is adapting to the challenge of Covid-19, and the key priorities in maintain the UK’s high safety standards. Britain operates some of the safest roads in the world and has built a strong reputation on its road safety management. However, there is always room to...

From high speeds to driver awareness, UK drivers have endured a strange 2020 on Britain’s highways. But as a degree of normality and pre-lockdown levels of use return to the roads, how have the police had to adapt to the changes, and what has occurred since? Find out what can the insurance industry do to help tackle the scourge of the uninsured driver, be ready for a new model of road user (w...

For its part the insurance industry has contributed to this objective by: Offering new schemes and products to help insure those invested in boosting renewable energy production. Offering more competitive rates to incentivise the use of ‘cleaner’ energy. Putting pressure on its supply chain to commit to a prescribed ‘green agenda’. Withdrawing investment in businesses associated with construction...

At the end of 2019 there were an estimated seven to eight billion active IoT devices, a figure which now stands at 40bn. Indeed it is estimated that the average UK household now has well over 100 devices with the rise in the likes of smart meters, security devices and leak detection making household properties much better risks. Indeed escape of water, once a major issue for claims managers, has s...

It is the year 2030. After a number of false starts the Government finally introduced its Whiplash reforms in April 2022 following delays due to the extended impact of Brexit and Covid 19.  It was considered in the main a success as the extra time allowed all sides to reach agreements on areas that had been seen as stumbling blocks like the inclusion of ADR. This was in part helped by the co-...

Join Jonathan Swift, content director at Insurance Post, for this special episode of Motor Mouth as he is joined by an panel of experts including; Chris Moore of Apollo Underwriting, Rob MacKethan of Lime and Jillian Slyfield of Aon to talk all things micro mobility and how this new mode of travel could impact motor insurance. Plenty has been said about the future of mobility. From current ef...

Insurance Post’s content director Jonathan Swift interviews Jon Dye, director of underwriting for motor at QBE, to get his views and opinions of the motor insurance industry and how it and QBE have grappled with the challenges of the past few months and the hurdles likely to emerge as lockdown eases. The motor landscape, like all aspects of our society, has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic...

Insurance Post’s content director Jonathan Swift interviews Paul Baxter, managing director of Marmalade, to get his views and experiences of the last few months and what the major challenges will be for motor insurers in the future. The motor landscape, like all aspects of our society, has been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. As the lockdown was implemented across the country, vehicles r...

It is the year 2030. As the demands for a green economy has intensified the government has announced the ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2035 to this year (2030). Concerns still exist over electric charge points, which although now standardised to two types, are seen by some as lagging behind vehicle manufacture. Around 40% of the UK carpool...

Martin Milliner, claims director at LV, and Stephanie Ogden, director of distribution at HDI Global, join Insurance Post's content director Jonathan Swift to discuss what the future of working in insurance and dealing with customer looks like. Everything has been turned upside down by the coronavirus, from the way insurers conduct the claims process, to working from home. But now the crisis i...

Kicking off the Post Claims Club Live digital event today we have a podcast recording featuring experts and industry professionals analysing the impact of Covid-19 on claims operations. Joining Post content director Jonathan Swift to discuss the biggest challenges in adapting to the disruption caused by the pandemic; lessons learned and role of technology in the future are: Stephen Bryceland, part...

For this episode, Insurance Post director of content Jonathan Swift discusses data as the lifeblood of the insurance industry with Jeff Ward, founder of the Jeff Ward Consultancy, Annarita Roscino, head of predictive analytics at Zurich Insurance, and Olivier Thereaux, head of research and development at the Open Data Institute.  Data has long been described as the “lifeblood of the insurance...

Insurance Post director of content Jonathan Swift is joined by Ed Messer, head of catastrophe management at Aon, and David Rubens, CEO of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, to discuss if insurers truly our global risk safety net? So far this year, the world has seen devasting wildfires burn through large parts of Australia and Brazil, Britain formally end it’s relationship with the Europe...

“Motor insurance is there to support customers in their time of need,” Mike Brockman, CEO and founder of Thing Co, explains to Jonathan Swift, content director of Insurance Post.  As the world moves through the coronavirus pandemic, the need to utilise new technology have been made starker. Can motor insurance reap the benefits? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Director of content Jonathan Swift discuss how the sector will adapt to challenges being presented at the moment with Motor Insurance World sponsor E2E Total Loss Management and its chief operating officer Neil Joslin.  How does the motor insurance industry adjust and adapt to the challenges that are being presented at the moment? How can business take advantage of new technology and too...

Jonathan Swift, content director at Post, speaks to Matthew Maxwell-Scott, executive director of the Association of Consumer Support Organisations, to get his insight and thoughts on the reforms, where the challenges still lie and, with the Coronavirus pandemic ongoing, where we’re likely to be at the end of the year. The Whiplash Reforms have dogged the motor insurance industry for many years in...

Content director Jonathan Swift sits down with Lexis Nexis’ senior director of personal lines insurance Martyn Mathews to discuss the latest in car technology innovation and how the connected car of the future will provide reliable, real-time data sets for insurers to assess risk. How can quality vehicle and advanced driver assistance systems data can help insurance providers better assess and pri...

Is 2020 the year that the electric car revolution really takes off? The next decade will certainly be an exciting time for the automotive industry as Britain’s road network changes to a model of transport. Jonathan Swift, content director for Insurance Post, get more details from Tom Clarke, head of electric vehicles strategy at LV General Insurance. With alternative ways to travel gradu...

This week’s podcast brings you two topics in one episode. Jonathan Swift, content director for Insurance Post, interviews Simon Gallimore, vice-president for casualty and motor claims at AIG, on the topics of whiplash reforms and the customer journey. Hear Gallimore’s take on the current state of the whiplash reforms, the path we took getting here and what we hope to see from the reforms when more...

In the next in our series of podcasts with Motor Insurance World speakers, Alex Lewis-Jones, research manager at Delta EE, is interviewed by Post’s editor Stephanie Denton, on alternative modes of travel, the challenges and hurdles to our transport and the future of mobility. Britain’s road traffic mix is shifting from the internal combustion engine to electric power vehicles, ‘green travel’ is be...

In the next in our series of podcasts with Motor Insurance World speakers, Andrew Cox, detective superintendent at the Metropolitan Police, is interviewed by Post’s content director Jonathan Swift, outlining what challenges insurers can expect to come across over the next decade.   With more than 30 million car owners in the UK, the tragic inevitability is that road accidents will occur....

In the third of our series of podcasts with Motor Insurance World speakers Mike Partridge, paint and body business manager at Volkswagen UK, is interviewed by Post’s content director Jonathan Swift, outlining what challenges insurers can expect to come across over the next decade. As our vehicles become more advanced, what is the result on the costs of repairs? Are the modern cars as robust as mar...