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  • Electric vehicles pose problems as insurers charge up for net zero

    13 December 2023

    The shift towards EVs presents new risks for insurers, but also an opportunity as a means for reaching net-zero targets, as Joshua Geer reports

  • LV= loses Emily Penn to Macquarie Group

    04 October 2022

    She was capital and investment director at the UK life insurer

  • UK flood insurers introduce "Build Back Better" scheme

    14 April 2022

    Insurers will pay for homeowners to improve resilience to flooding

  • LV's demutualisation: what kind of capital(ism) do you want?

    16 November 2021

    EDITORIAL: Christopher Cundy comments on the UK insurer's plans to sell and restructure its business

  • UK government refuses to intervene in LV demutualisation plans

    16 September 2021

    "A matter for regulators and courts", says John Glen MP

  • Access to capital not the only issue in LV= sale, says FCA chair

    14 May 2021

    Charles Randell discussed with MPs the issues facing UK mutuals

  • Mutuals' deferred shares could have saved LV= from demutualising

    15 December 2020

    With the British life insurer planning to demutualise with the £530m sale of its business, Cintia Cheong talks to AFM chief Martin Shaw about the prospects for the mutual sector in the UK

  • LV= holds exclusive takeover talks with Bain Capital

    05 October 2020

    A deal is said to be valued at more than £500m

  • LV= confirms takeover talks with several parties

    28 September 2020

    Detailed negotiations are said to be happening with Royal London

  • LV= General Insurance to cut around 600 jobs

    28 July 2020

    Plan to integrate it with GI business acquired from Legal & General