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Ageas is a leading provider of award-winning Personal, Commercial and Protection insurance in the UK. Insuring in the region of 7.6 million customers and working with a range of partners, Ageas is recognised for delivering consistent and high-quality customer experiences.
Through tailoring our insurance solutions to customers’ needs and utilising innovative distribution channels, we provide customers with the choice of how they buy insurance.
Recognising our status as a stand alone international insurance group, we became Ageas at the beginning of October 2010. The attributes that have helped Fortis UK to grow over many years, particularly high service and low cost, will continue to determine the way we work and act as Ageas.
AXA Commercial is a leading player in the UK’s commercial insurance sector, offering a very wide range of commercial products to UK commercial brokers.
Tailored insurance solutions are provided for a range of customers from micro SME businesses, through to major corporate entities with turnover up to £500m.
Brokers are supported via both market and AXA-led electronic platforms, and via a network of trading centres across the UK which strive to offer exceptional service in trading, relationship management, claims and underwriting expertise.
AXA Commercial’s ‘Fighting Fit for Business’ trading campaign actively supports brokers to help them seek new business wins and defend renewal portfolios in these tough market conditions.
AXA Commercial Intermediary is part of the AXA Group, the largest insurer in world in terms of premium income and second largest in terms of assets managed.
Beachcroft LLP is one of the largest national commercial law firms in the UK. With more than 1,500 employees, including over 800 lawyers and 151 partners, we provide commercial legal advice and litigation services from eight locations in the UK, as well as in Auckland, New Zealand.
We provide services as Beachcroft Dublin in Ireland and we have a representative office in Brussels. We also have a best friend’s network in Europe and a joint venture in India.
It’s what we do with the data that makes the difference.
Callcredit is the UK’s most innovative and customer-focused Credit Reference Agency. We combine a comprehensive understanding of industry needs with state-of-the-art technology to develop unique information solutions. Our services enable our customers to make better, more responsible and profitable decisions throughout their customer management lifecycle.
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled business solutions and
services. To complement its capabilities in consulting, systems integration and
outsourcing, CSC brings financial services industry knowledge and experience, a
comprehensive portfolio of financial services application software and an
extensive network of industry and technology partners. CSC’s financial clients
include more than 1,200 major banks, insurers and investment
Leading law firm Hill Dickinson works closely with Insurers, Corporates and Brokers throughout the UK to deliver market leading counter fraud services.
Utilising a combination of intelligence, investigation and legal expertise the firm's dedicated fraud unit supports clients to identify fraud, combat fraudulent claims and reduce claims spend.
Contact:
Peter Oakes, Head of Fraud, Peter.Oakes@hilldickinson.com
Tel 0161 817 7200
Imperial Consultants, since its conception in 1988, Imperial Consultants has grown to become the UK’s foremost specialist buildings claim validation and settlement provider servicing an increasing number of the UK’s leading insurers.
Imperial Consultants has recently launched a number of initiatives which have delivered significant cost reductions for its insurance client’s claims settlement and claims management expenditure, whilst continuing to ensure a consistent positive claims experience is provided to their customers.
Imperial Consultants does not generate any additional income through referral commissions or retrospective payments from third party suppliers. The service Imperial Consultants undertakes is truly impartial and independent.
Contact Details
Ian Hogarth
Client Development Director
Imperial House
Kingsway
Helmshore, Lancashire
BB4 4QJ
T: 07598 934 478 or DDI 0845 402 8643
ISO is a leading provider of products and services that help measure, manage, and reduce risk. ISO provides data, analytics and decision-support solutions to professionals in many fields, including insurance, finance, property, health services, government and human resources. Clients use ISO's databases and services to classify and evaluate a variety of risks and detect potential fraud. Around the world, ISO's services help customers protect people, property and financial assets. ISO's claims solutions include Claims Outcome Advisor (COA) the leading personal injury claim evaluation system, the powerful Xactware suite of property estimating systems and Netmap anti-fraud visual link analysis software.
Contact Details
Mark Strang
Insurance Services Office Limited
Centaur House
Ancells Road
Fleet
Hampshire
GU51 2UJ
T : 01252 761055
LAS Claims Management Ltd is revolutionising the household insurance market with a range of innovative products and services. Using industry first technology solutions including aerial digital images and live video streaming from site, we provide end to end claims management as well as unbundled independent validation, surveying and building repair solutions.
LAS Professional Services offers loss adjusting and surveying services for household property and subsidence related claims, where qualified adjusting intervention and decision making is given free of charge.
LV= Broker, part of the LV= financial group, offers an extensive range of commercial and personal lines products trading as LV=, Highway and ABC Insurance.
LV= is different to most insurers you will deal with. As a UK mutual, customer service and partnership has always been at the heart of what we do. We are a vibrant, modern and ambitious business. Unlike insurers that find themselves dealing with brokers as a matter of legacy, LV= has actively chosen to invest and compete in this channel. Being part of a mutual means that we can invest more in making our products competitive and deliver outstanding customer service.
MMA is an established and financially stable UK general insurer. Our parent company is part of the Covéa group; one of the leading property and liability insurers in France with over 2,000 branches and 3.2 million customers.
In the UK, our reputation is founded on a track record of consistent profitability, financial stability and reliability for over 50 years with Standard and Poor’s rating MMA as A ‘Strong’. We offer a range of package and bespoke products for businesses along with competitive household and motor insurance.
Company address: Norman Place, Reading. RG1 8DA
Telephone: 0844 902 1000
Fax: 0118 955 2211
Key contacts: Amy Hood, Senior Marketing Executive and Freya Cook, Marketing Assistant
The complexities of catastrophic and large injury claims necessitate a
coordinated multi disciplinary approach. Plexus Law has an established
reputation for providing not only technical legal excellence but innovative
solutions to the challenges of managing these claims. The catastrophic team focus on finding an early resolution for insurers by
working integrally with the Parabis group’s award winning rehabilitation and
adjusting practices, Argent. Offering a bespoke multidisciplinary service at the
outset ensures a thorough review of the evidential requirements that assists in
identifying how to effect an early agreement that is acceptable to both parties
at an optimum cost. The team embrace the key objectives of the personal injury multi track code
and seek to enhance the same by exploring early mediation or ADR, where
appropriate. They have developed strong links with medical experts, senior
Counsel and medical and vocational rehabilitation experts to offer a tailor made
“holistic” approach. We work with our clients throughout the complete timeline of the claim
ensuring significant issues are resolved cost effectively and timeously.
Our market place is rapidly changing and with change comes challenge and
opportunity. Zurich is committed to helping you identify and exploit the
opportunities by providing leading edge systems, quality service and innovative
business solutions. Our new generation of pension, protection and investment
propositions is designed to meet changing customer needs and to assist you in
evolving your business models to ensure success in a post RDR world. We value
the business that you place with us and recognise that you always have a choice.
We look forward to growing our business with you.
Stand number: 72 QBE Insurance Group is Standard & Poor’s ‘A+’ rated and is one of the
world's leading international insurers and reinsurers, headquartered in Sydney,
Australia. We operate out of 45 countries across the globe, with a presence in
all key insurance markets, and are lead underwriters within our chosen markets,
setting rates and conditions. For the year ended 31 December 2008, the company
underwrote gross written premium totalling £6,025 million and held shareholders’
funds of £5,364 million. Company address: Plantation Place, 30 Fenchurch
Street,London. EC3M 3BD Telephone: 0845 609 0331 Fax: 08448 731 554 Key contacts: Mike Bowen
As the world’s fifth largest insurance services provider, Aviva brings you
size, scale and security you can be confident in even in uncertain times. Our
financial performance is consistently strong and we maintain a Standard and
Poor’s rating of AA-. We offer you our 300-year heritage as a British insurance
company and the strength we harness from being part of a global group. Our main activities are general insurance, long-term savings and fund
management. 2010 has seen us place a greater focus on large corporate risks with
a dedicated underwriting team now in place to provide brokers with accurate,
tailored deals. We have premium income and investment sales of £45.1 billion and £379 billion
of funds under management. We have 46,000 employees serving over 50 million
customers in 28 countries around the world. Our purpose is to bring prosperity and peace of mind. We will do this by
realising our vision: “One Aviva, twice the value”. To us, this means putting
our customers at the heart of everything we do. By working together across our businesses, we will optimise our performance
in the global marketplace and maximise the value we can generate for all our
stakeholders.
As the world’s fifth largest insurance services provider, Aviva brings you
size, scale and security you can be confident in even in uncertain times. Our
financial performance is consistently strong and we maintain a Standard and
Poor’s rating of AA-. We offer you our 300-year heritage as a British insurance
company and the strength we harness from being part of a global group. Our main activities are general insurance, long-term savings and fund
management. 2010 has seen us place a greater focus on large corporate risks with
a dedicated underwriting team now in place to provide brokers with accurate,
tailored deals. We have premium income and investment sales of £45.1 billion and £379 billion
of funds under management. We have 46,000 employees serving over 50 million
customers in 28 countries around the world. Our purpose is to bring prosperity and peace of mind. We will do this by
realising our vision: “One Aviva, twice the value”. To us, this means putting
our customers at the heart of everything we do. By working together across our businesses, we will optimise our performance
in the global marketplace and maximise the value we can generate for all our
stakeholders.
As the world’s fifth largest insurance services provider, Aviva brings you
size, scale and security you can be confident in even in uncertain times. Our
financial performance is consistently strong and we maintain a Standard and
Poor’s rating of AA-. We offer you our 300-year heritage as a British insurance
company and the strength we harness from being part of a global group. Our main activities are general insurance, long-term savings and fund
management. 2010 has seen us place a greater focus on large corporate risks with
a dedicated underwriting team now in place to provide brokers with accurate,
tailored deals. We have premium income and investment sales of £45.1 billion and £379 billion
of funds under management. We have 46,000 employees serving over 50 million
customers in 28 countries around the world. Our purpose is to bring prosperity and peace of mind. We will do this by
realising our vision: “One Aviva, twice the value”. To us, this means putting
our customers at the heart of everything we do. By working together across our businesses, we will optimise our performance
in the global marketplace and maximise the value we can generate for all our
stakeholders.
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