Acturis and Sompo have launched Sompo’s marine cargo insurance proposition on the Acturis platform, giving brokers a digital route to quote and, where eligible, bind marine cargo risks.

The Insurance Institute of London has announced the election of Ken Norgrove as its new President for 2026-27. Norgrove has four decades of experience in senior insurance industry roles and has spent most of his career at Intact Insurance.

Admiral is proposing to reduce its UK insurance workforce by around 500 roles as part of a wider programme to deliver £100m in annual cost savings. The proposals affect around 5% of Admiral’s UK insurance employees. The insurer has begun a 45-day collective consultation with affected staff.

DARAG Group has received High Court approval for the transfer of two insurance portfolios to its UK carrier, DARAG Insurance UK.

With two months to go until Insurance Day for Dementia on 26 November, Insurance United Against Dementia and Alzheimer’s Society are calling on organisations across the UK insurance industry to unite behind the campaign.

Mortgage Brain has integrated Paymentshield into its CRM Brain platform, allowing mortgage brokers to offer clients a home insurance quote as part of the mortgage application process.

Travel insurance comparison site PayingTooMuch has added insurtech Gigasure to its panel of insurance providers as it seeks to grow its presence in the UK market. The move also represents a push by Gigasure to take its offering to a wider audience.

CFC has launched affirmative AI cover within its intellectual property policy to address questions concerning training data, ownership, infringement, liability and AI-generated outputs. The new wording confirms that claims involving AI are covered so long as they otherwise meet the policy’s coverage requirements.

The Chartered Insurance Institute wants to give industry practitioners a stronger role in shaping policy, professional standards and membership services. To do this, it has launched an online research community called Voices, open to CII members and non-members, from which it will gather industry views.

In the first six months of 2026, Ecclesiastical’s UK and Ireland business saw gross written premium increase by 2.7% to reach £233.4m (H1 2025: £227.2m). Underwriting profit went up from £16.6m in H1 2025 to £18.7m in the first of this year, while its combined operating ratio of 86.1% was an improvement of 0.8 percentage points on the previous half.

Comprehensive car insurance premiums have dipped by 0.8% during the past three months leaving UK drivers paying £713 on average for cover. The data comes from the latest car insurance price index from Confused.com in association with WTW.

Wisentic Pets, which connects pet insurers and veterinary practices to support claims fulfilment, is now live in the UK with its first insurer partners, Perfect Pet and Now Pet Insurance. The announcement comes on the back of a pilot project between the two insurance providers and veterinary clinics that started in early August.

Technology related claims now account for 4.6% of all travel insurance claims and have an average value of £244. The data from insurtech provider Gigasure shows that a quarter (24.6%) of all technology related travel claims now involve mobile phones.

Axa UK has teamed up with property technology business Cotality to create an in-house building repair network. The insurer says the network will go live next month and connect policyholders, repair contractors and claims teams on a single platform.

Antares has renewed and extended its partnership with delegated authority technology specialist VIPR. Antares has used VIPR’s bordereaux management solution for over a decade and the new three-year agreement sees it deploy VIPR Intarga, VIPR Data Cloud and VIPR Insights.

Axa Insurance UK now offers equipment breakdown cover to all commercial real estate customers, rather than restricting its availability to certain risks. The move enables all customers to decide if they want to include plant and machinery cover as part of their buildings insurance policy.