Insurance Technology Diary Archive

I downloaded a truly useful app the other day, one of the few that actually makes my life easier. I was about halfway through the weekly …

Back in 2018, all Lloyd’s Managing Agents bought into the market’s new reporting system, DA-SATS. Clearly named with its acronym in mind…

I was strolling along Bishopsgate with a colleague on a sunny April day quite a few years back. We stopped at a bench because his feet hurt.

A recent article in The Insurer declared: “MGAs under close scrutiny from reinsurers”. It hasn’t always been that way. For many years …

Very early in my career I shadowed a motor fleet underwriter, sitting next to him on the box at Lloyd’s. I learned more about underwriting…

Descended from Abyssinian gazelles, the last quadruped with unicorn DNA – the rarest animal of all – is the pushmi-pullyu.

About 400 years ago an Englishman named William Gilbert wrote a book called De Magnete. It was the definitive guide to electricity …

I had an old great aunt who always used to append a piece of avuncular wisdom to the Christmas wish she scrawled, in her spidery …

I read with amusement this week that Symphony Risk Solutions, the US brokerage, has appointed a director of cannabis solutions.