COVEA INSURANCE
Covea Insurance has launched a microservice based policy admin platform that is driving huge change to an traditional industry through pioneering work with major partner brands .
Covea Insurance PLC is owned by Covea France , one of the largest insurers in France . The UK arm was founded in 2012 and is something of a laboratory for testing new and innovative approaches in the marketplace . They ’ re the partner of choice for a number of high-street brands , providing award winning claims handling and customer service to match the reputation of their clients .
Graeme Howard , is Covéa ’ s Chief Information Technology Officer and the leader of a new era heralded by their micro service based approach to insurance platforms . Howard ’ s journey is a life lived through insurance and technology . A conservative and traditional industry , often slow and resistant to change , but where even minor change has an enormous impact on the end customer .
Covea Insurance Plc was officially formed through a 1999 merger of 3 smaller UK insurance companies . Howard ’ s charge allows for the incubation of Covea ’ s most ambitious changes and sees its new platform approach as the launch of a new era in insurance technology .
While applications of this technology are harder in an industry as traditional as insurance , that is precisely why digital
68 March 2022