Growing regulatory pressure on firms to strengthen psychological safety is driving new efforts in the London insurance market to improve workplace culture and encourage earlier reporting of concerns.

Specialist insurance provider CFC is launching a pilot programme that uses agentic underwriting to automate the process of turning email submissions into quote recommendations. Designed for low complexity submissions, Lane Assist aims to accelerate quoting for brokers handling high-volume, mass appetite risks, while reducing friction and ensuring consistency.

Beazley has announced plans to launch a new marine war consortium, to provide up to US$1bn of Lloyd’s capacity – US$500m each for hull and cargo war – complementary to the existing capacity available in the market. The consortium will be offered to vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The implementation of artificial intelligence raises the bar for governance and recovery planning, but some organisations have not evolved their disaster recovery approach to reflect this, according to a survey published this week.

The Insurance Act 2015 has failed to halt the growth in insurance disputes reaching the courts, with litigation volumes rising over the past decade, according to data from Mactavish.
In the ten years since the Act came into force, insurance-related cases have increased by 180%.

JBA Risk Management has launched a suite of global climate change flood maps aimed at helping to assess future physical risks. The maps allow both location-specific and portfolio-level analysis, enabling users to identify geographic patterns, emerging hotspots, and compare impacts across climate scenarios.