If you build it they will come

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Commercial insurance platform providers are showing interest in the life space in a bid to help improve the accessibility and cost of cover for the self-employed, writes Suzanne Clarkson

A combination of the rapid growth of contractors, evolving rights for the gig quotient, and the need (whether they know it or not!) for certain protections, a specialist platform in the commercial insurance sector is considering extending its tech know-how into the life space. At the same time, some of the big employee benefit consultancies are busy designing low cost, bespoke, ‘benefits marketplaces' to help employers attract the best contractors for the job. Insuretech start-up Tapoly told Cover that it's looking at applying the on-demand experience it has designed for things like Publ...

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