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UK motor premiums drop, but record claims persist

Insurtech Sapiens to be bought by PE-firm Advent for $2.5bn

Climate change is driving up UK subsidence risk, warns ABI

TransRe to deploy agentic AI to scale facultative reinsurance volumes

This will allow underwriting and claims teams to focus on complex risk decisioning

Hannover Re navigating conflicts, climate and capital shocks in H1

Management also discloses an increase to Russia-Ukraine aviation reserves following UK court ruling

Prudential Financial closes $4bn longevity risk transfer with NN Life & Pensions

Second deal with NN after 2023 transaction as market grows on the back of pension reforms

Stress testing for an uncertain climate future

Martin Assmann and Christopher Cundy report on the current challenges facing insurers in their climate stress and scenario testing

Global protection gap is lower than it has ever been, WEF says

Uninsured global losses drop to record low of 38% but work needed in global markets

Insurers target cost-reduction goals, but face challenges

Most players plan to accelerate cost-reduction initiatives despite mixed success rates

More to non-life performance than premium rates, QBE tells analysts

Andrew Horton explains retaining lines that miss groupwide target COR