PwC

Less than a third of people trust insurance providers with numbers proving hard to improve.

Ian Teague queries whether the industry is delivering the best possible underwriting experience to consumers and advisers.

PWC has estimated weather-related damage in December 2013 and January this year could cost the insurance industry up to £500m.

Sustainable and well regulated growth in the UK financial services could generate approximately 22,000 additional jobs in the insurance industry by 2020, according to anaylsis from PwC.

Insurance brokers have reported business volumes falls and disappointing expectations of continued growth in the industry,according to the PwC / CBI quarterly Financial Services Survey on Insurance.