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Certus client Excessweather launches this week

New underwriting platform launches to take advantage of a break in the weather

The first UK-flagged weather index coverholder has launched [this week], aiming to take advantage of growing market interest in a form of insurance and reinsurance that pays out...

Tory Schism as Douglas Carswell defects to UKIP

The decision by odd-ball MP Douglas Carswell to resign the Tory Whip and seek election (Harwich) as the first UKIP MP in Westminster has been described as a watershed moment for the Conservatives. Following his defection, rumours swirled around Parliament that a number of other rebel MPs would jo...

Wrap me up in red tape

This Government came to power promising a bonfire of red tape. Regulation, it said, was stifling growth. Small and large businesses alike were drowning. Red tape costs £millions, and for the Tories, they could point to much of it coming from Brussels – useful for the anti-Euro brigade. The Cabine...

Peter Hubbard - UK General CEO in Post Magazine C-Suite: 7 August 2014

I doubt that legendary rock band Cream had the insurance industry in mind when they kicked off “Crossroads,” one of their greatest songs, but when Eric Clapton et al ‘went down to the crossroads, and fell down on their knees,’ they may have found a few insurance CEOs already there, praying for di...

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