The British Insurance Awards
Attracting 2,000 guests from all over the UK, the BIAs are truly a night for the whole insurance community. 28 categories cover general insurance, SMEs, claims specialists, brokers, underwriters and companies that provide services to the UK insurance sector. Table bookings are now open.<br /> <br />
30 years of celebrating British insurance
Join us at the Royal Albert Hall for an evening of celebrating the market's masterpiece - a true exhibition of the best of British insurance.
Entries are now closed.
Key Dates
Deadline Extension: March 8, 2024 | Award Ceremony: July 3, 2024
2024 sponsors
At Ageas, we want to get straight down to business. Your business. Helping it grow by creating proven solutions that really understand your customers’ needs and offer great value. We focus on developing a straightforward partnership with you – founded on good listening, mutual trust and results. We do this because when we get together and think practically, great things can happen - so let’s get to work!
Arc Legal Group is a specialist provider of ancillary products and services with deep knowledge and experience in each of our chosen markets. With over two decades of industry experience, we are experts in our field with superb product and market knowledge with digital innovation at the heart of our business. We are reliable, ethical, and obsessed with delivering high quality ‘bespoke’ products and excellent customer service.
Flexibility is central to our business ethos, and our underwriting knowledge and capacity is supported by our parent company, AmTrust, and trusted relationships with a host of major ‘A rated’ underwriters including RSA and Great American Insurance.
An AmTrust Financial company.
Contact us: enquiries@arclegal.co.uk
Website: www.arclegal.co.uk
Welcome to Arch Insurance UK Regional Division
Our award-winning Arch UK Regional Division provides specialised insurance solutions for a wide range of UK businesses, delivered by our team of experienced and empowered local underwriters across our 10 regional hubs.
Our brand promise: Pursuing Better Together encapsulates how we do business at Arch Insurance. It is an approach that is based on collaboration, responsiveness and a genuine commitment to continually raising the bar.
We provide brokers and our mutual customers with a high-quality tailored service and, as part of Arch Capital Group, offer financial security and capacity to ensure our relationships are built for the long term.
We offer Accident, Sickness & Travel, Commercial Combined, Financial & Professional Lines, Marine, Motor, Property Owners, Terrorism, along with a developing range of digital products.
Contact your local regional Arch branch to discover our full suite of insurance solutions and more on the business we write.
Auto Windscreens is a leading UK vehicle glass repair, replacement and ADAS calibration provider that prides itself on delivering value and an excellent service to insurance partners through technical expertise and a high-quality customer journey.
Through its dedicated 24/7 contact centre, online booking process, growing network of 73 service centres and 300-strong mobile fleet, the company provides a smooth and convenient claims experience.
In 2022, the business achieved a score of 93.1 in the Institute of Customer Service’s Business Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction Index and is rated Excellent with a TrustScore of 4.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot.
Auto Windscreens is proud to have committed to becoming a net zero business by 2045.
At Aviva, we believe a trusted partnership comes down to communication. Not just talking but listening carefully to the thoughts and feedback of our trusted brokers. We make it our goal to understand what we can do to grow stronger together, whether that’s facing the current economic uncertainty or how we create a more sustainable future together.
The Aviva team are thrilled to be joining you at this years Broker Expo event and we can’t wait share how we’re #HereForBrokers.
It takes you. It takes a partnership. It takes Aviva
connect.avivab2b.co.uk/broker
Carpenters Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of insurance and legal services. We work in partnership with insurers, brokers and MGA’s to deliver a variety of fully outsourced claims solutions. Our team has grown to approximately 1000 employees across six offices throughout the UK. We have sites in Liverpool, Birkenhead, Leeds, Haywards Heath and Glasgow.
Our team’s insurance experience combined with our legal expertise gives us the size, scale and strength to successfully work in partnership with any insurer or broker. Our long-standing relationships are testament to the quality of our service. Our focus is always on the customer and ensuring their claims journey consistently exceeds expectation.
Technology + People
Solving claims challenges through innovation and expertise.
For more than 80 years, Crawford has led the industry through a relentless investment in people and the innovative tools that empower them. This unique combination enables us to provide unrivalled claims management solutions to insurance carriers, insurance brokers and corporations worldwide.
• Loss Adjusting
• Third Party Administration
• Managed Repair
• On-Demand Services
• Catastrophe Response
At Crawford, we're not just embracing change, we're leading it. We're thinking beyond the traditional and bringing together digital solutions to meet our customers' needs today while anticipating the needs of tomorrow.
CRIF provides information services and digital solutions for the UK financial sector to support decision management, consumer profiling, pricing optimisation, ESG compliance and fraud prevention. CRIF has been supporting the UK insurance industry for over 25 years and is a provider of the Claims and Underwriting Exchange Register (CUE) as well as the outsourcer appointed by Claims Portal Ltd. to operate the RTA, EL and PL portal.
Over 10,500 banks, 600 insurance companies and more than 90,000 business clients use CRIF services in 50 countries worldwide. crif.co.uk
About Davies:
We are a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, financial services, and highly regulated businesses.
We help our clients to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform and grow. We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance value chain, including excellence in claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation & risk, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation & change management.
Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across 40+ countries, including the UK & the U.S., serving more than 1,500 insurance, financial services, public sector, and other highly regulated clients.
Founded in 1957, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is an internationally recognised brand with more than 7,600 corporately owned neighbourhood and airport locations in more than 90 countries and territories around the world.
Specialising in the provision of replacement vehicles and courtesy cars that are relied upon in the event of an accident, Enterprise also provides daily and weekend rental for private or business use. In the UK alone, Enterprise operates in excess of 100,000 vehicles through a network of more than 450 branches, with 92% of the UK population living within 10 miles of an Enterprise location.
As a privately owned company, Enterprise prides itself on its ability to react quickly to changes and challenges in the market. This flexibility, together with a continuous focus on innovation and growth through service excellence, means Enterprise has the strength, and ability to succeed, no matter the market conditions.
With a network of over 200 locations across the UK, and a promise to deliver within a 2 hour window for the standard fleet, insurers can be confident that Europcar will meet their customers' needs. A Europcar location is rarely more than 8 miles away from the customer's address and the industry-leading Deliver & Collect service means as little inconvenience as possible for the policyholder. Europcar delivers to their door - at home, work or the bodyshop - at a pre-arranged time.
The fleet of more than 60,000 vehicles - cars and vans - means Europcar can give the policyholder a vehicle that feels the same quality as their own - or even better! With the majority of cars less than 6 months old, this enables insurers to give their customer a driving experience that is probably even better than their own - with all the latest motoring technology - to enhance the customer experience.
https://insurance.europcar.co.uk/
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps our clients build and grow sustainable businesses.
By orchestrating our domain expertise, data, analytics and digital technology, we look deeper to design and manage agile, customer-centric operating models to improve global operations, drive profitability, enhance customer satisfaction, increase data-driven insights, and manage risk and compliance.
Headquartered in New York, EXL has more than 31,700 professionals in locations throughout the United States, the UK, Europe, India, the Philippines, Colombia, Australia and South Africa.
EXL serves multiple industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, utilities, travel, transportation and logistics, media and retail, among others
Kennedys is a global law firm with particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution – especially in defending insurance and liability claims. Insurance claims and coverage expertise is deeply ingrained in every Kennedys office worldwide. Its lawyers provide a range of specialist legal services to insurers, reinsurers, corporates, healthcare providers, public sector bodies and other organisations, for all lines of business, delivering straightforward advice even when the issues are complex.
About QBE
QBE helps businesses build resilience through risk management and insurance.
QBE European Operations is part of QBE Insurance Group, one of the world’s leading international insurers and reinsurers and Standard & Poor’s A+ rated.
As a business insurance specialist, we offer a range of insurance products from the standard suite of property, casualty and motor to specialist financial lines, marine and energy – all tailored to the individual needs of our small, medium and large customers.
We understand the crucial role that effective risk management plays in all organisations and work hard to understand our customers’ businesses to offer insurance solutions that meet their needs – from complex programmes to simpler e-trading solutions. Our expert risk management and rehabilitation practitioners focus on helping customers improve their risk management so that they may benefit from a reduction in claims frequency and costs.
Find out more and read our latest articles to help build business resilience at https://qbeeurope.com
Premium Credit is a leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. Each year, we lend more than £5 billion and service over 2.6 million customers through a network of almost three thousand partners. We are multi-award-winning and the only premium finance provider accredited by BIBA and Brokers Ireland.
RSA’s heritage as one of the world’s longest-serving general insurance companies offers stability, knowledge and experience for our diverse customers and broker partners. Since becoming part of Intact Financial Corporation, we have built upon these solid foundations and focused upon the future, where outperformance will be achieved through our core values of integrity, respect, excellence and generosity and ensuring we remain customer-driven in everything we do. Our customers are our biggest advocates, therefore a core pillar of our commercial lines strategy is to improve experience with optimised service levels, claims provision and product quality
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. The company provides a broad range of resources tailored to clients’ specific needs in casualty, property, marine, benefits, brand protection and other lines. At Sedgwick, caring counts; through the dedication and expertise of 31,000 colleagues across 80 countries, the company takes care of people and organisations by mitigating and reducing risks and losses, promoting health and productivity, protecting brand reputations, and containing costs that can impact performance.
Synectics Solutions creates bespoke solutions which mitigate financial and identity fraud with outstanding effectiveness.
For over 30 years, it has championed the use of syndicated data across the private and public sectors to prevent crime, appropriately manage risk, better understand customers, and promote financial inclusion.
Many tier 1 banks, leading insurers and challenger fintechs trust Synectics Solutions’ award-winning services, which have prevented fraud losses surpassing five billion pounds.
Today, Synectics Solutions leads in using data and insight as a force for good.
Its solutions purposefully balance financial crime prevention with the fair treatment of customers. As a result, organisations can effectively combat fraud and its associated human cost, even as rapid digitalisation makes fraud challenges more complex.
At the heart of Synectics Solutions is National SIRA – the largest and most authoritative fraud dataset of its time.
The unparalleled insights of National SIRA improve certainty, efficiency and fairness when making decisions – context that feeds directly into the organisation’s market-leading solutions.
Solutions include data syndication for fighting fraud, digital ID verification and ethical AI to predict risk and automate decisions. Path-breaking innovations are in constant development, while expertise is readily shared to solve problems faster.
Synectics Solutions wins many accolades for its pioneering work – including the Queen’s Award for Innovation. This continues into 2023, which has seen the organisation awarded Data Initiative of the Year at the European and UK FinTech Awards. In addition, its people are proud contributors to local charities and initiatives.
In partnership with
iCAN is the Insurance Cultural Awareness Network, the first industry-wide, independent, not-for-profit network that supports multicultural inclusion across the insurance sector. Our mission is to promote multicultural inclusion and progression, engage with allies, and celebrate the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion in the insurance sector.
2023 highlights
Recognising industry excellence for 30 years
In its 30th year, the British Insurance Awards are set to honour the remarkable achievements and creative brilliance of the UK insurance industry in the past year. We're dedicated to shining a spotlight on companies that embody innovation, driving positive transformation in the insurance landscape.
The insurance Hall of Fame
In recognition of the British Insurance Awards' 30th anniversary, Insurance Post have collated our Hall of Fame to showcase all previous winners, finalists and presenters since the first awards ceremony took place back in 1995 at London's Grosvenor House Hotel. View our hall of fame to see the complete list.