All articles by Ronan Mccaughey

Ronan Mccaughey

Lloyd’s chief: Data ownership power is passing from insurers to consumers

Lloyd’s of London CEO Inga Beale has applauded the mutual insurance sector’s performance, but warned not to hide behind regulation as a reason not to innovate.

PRA director of life insurance Andrew Bulley to join Deloitte

Business advisory firm Deloitte has appointed Andrew Bulley, director of life insurance at the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), as partner in Deloitte’s EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy.

Marc Blottiere joins AXA Asia as COO

Marc Blottiere has commenced his role as regional chief operating officer of AXA Asia. He reports directly to Jean-Louis Laurent Josi, regional CEO of AXA Asia.

Pan-Asian AIA Group joins R3 distributed ledger consortium

Pan-Asian life insurance player, AIA Group, has joined a distributed ledger consortium led by R3, the financial innovation firm partnership.

Beagle Street educates consumers on healthy living premium savings

Online life insurance provider Beagle Street has launched a customer engagement strategy highlighting that people can save more than 50% on their life insurance payments by quitting smoking or cutting back on alcohol.

Timetric insurance tech survey – have your say!

Life Insurance International (LII), a Timetric briefing service, is calling on all senior life and health insurance and reinsurance professionals to participate in a Timetric survey that will analyse and reveal the impact of new technologies and product innovations on the insurance industry.

Insurance Europe conference highlight: ‘Tech is changing the rules’

Generali Group’s Valter Trevisani has told attendees at the recent Insurance Europe held in Dublin that technology is “changing the rules” of insurance and warned of “seismic change”.

Heloise Rossouw joins Willis Towers Watson’s life insurance management consultancy

Willis Towers Watson has appointed Heloise Rossouw as senior consultant to lead the growth of its life insurance management consultancy.

Insurers’ IT security is branded ‘inconsistent’

The number of security breaches over the last year alone would suggest that insurers have been inconsistent in maintaining IT security levels, – according to Robert Rutherford, CEO of the business and technical consultancy, QuoStar.

US law firm files class action lawsuit against AXA Equitable Life Insurance

US law firm Emerson Scott has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all owners of Athena Universal Life II policies issued by AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (AXA) that were subjected to a cost of insurance rate increase announced by AXA on or about 15 October 2015.