A landmark High Court ruling has redrawn the lines between lawful recruitment and unlawful poaching across the insurance, financial services and professional services sectors, according to employment and partnership law specialist Fox and Partners. The case arose from Willis Re's recruitment of 22 employees from rival broker Guy Carpenter as part of its return to the reinsurance market.

Zurich Insurance Group has expanded its Data Center Project Guard insurance offering into Brazil, Germany, Italy, the Nordics and Spain, with further international expansion planned throughout the remainder of 2026.

Flood Re has launched a new online training module for loss adjusters and claims management professionals as part of efforts to increase the adoption of property flood resilience measures across the UK. Unveiled at the British Damage Management Association's annual conference in Nottingham, the initiative forms part of Flood Re's tenth anniversary Re-Think campaign.

Service level agreement exposure is among the key operational risks facing datacentres, according to a new report from Parametrix. In its latest whitepaper An Introduction to Data Centre SLAs: Key Terms, Financial Risk and Underwriting Implications, the firm estimates that even short outages can create significant financial impact. For instance, it calculates that a 45-minute outage at a 100MW datacentre with US$144m in annual rent could result in a US$24m service credit loss.

Hiscox UK is taking part in an advertising pilot through agency partner Dentsu, as OpenAI expands its ChatGPT advertising programme in the UK. The pilot will allow Hiscox to examine how consumers may use AI tools to find information and services, including insurance, as users move away from traditional keyword searches.

Businesses in the UK are entering a new phase of activist-driven disruption, with security intelligence indicating the threat is intensifying and increasingly moving inside organisations. Analysis from Securitas Risk Intelligence shows activist activity has accelerated sharply over the past year.