News

07.06.2022

The BIBA diary 2022

The return of BIBA after two years away lived up to all expectations and more, as several of our Group businesses grasped the opportunity to reconnect with UK brokers. 

01.06.2022

Long road to BIBA pays off for Motor Fleet team

By Kevin Dawes, Head of Consilium Motor Fleet

21.04.2022

Waste & Recycling - experts for over a quarter of a century

The year is 1996 and a young David Bearman (our Group CEO) has just taken the bold decision to launch retail broker Direct Insurance (as we were known back then) with a commitment to succeed in classes where improvement was desperately needed.

20.04.2022

The future’s green. But who’s going to build it?

By Andy Graham, Head of Specialist Risks

19.04.2022

It’s better when it’s face-to-face

By Christian Warrener.

30.03.2022

Explaining price rises to clients

By Matt Pini, Managing Director, Consilium Broking.

23.03.2022

Fleet risk management - tech and driver behaviour technology

Improving the risk profile of your client’s motor fleet to reduce losses is the number one way to keep insurance premiums affordable, and limit business disruption.

01.02.2022

Client saving, better terms, top result

The Consilium Motor Fleet team recently managed to claim a major win with a specialist logistics operator for the music industry, doing both UK-based and overseas work.

14.12.2021

Get an Excess of Loss quote in two minutes

In today’s competitive retail broking landscape, it’s more important than ever that brokers are giving their clients choice when it comes to level of cover.

01.12.2021

Protecting against catastrophic losses in High Risk Construction

The UK construction industry is booming. In July research group IHS Markit reported that its index of construction activity in the country peaked to its highest score in 24 years, as demand for both residential and commercial property soared.

22.11.2021

Relaunching Asbestos Removals & Surveyors in the hard market

We have officially relaunched our Asbestos Removals & Surveyors product.

13.10.2021

Consilium Explores Aviation with Scott Smith

The hard aviation insurance market should once again soften in the next year, according to Consilium’s Aviation Account Director Scott Smith.

13.10.2021

Brokers should act on the construction supply issues

An inability to meet global demand for a number of building materials, such as timber, steel and cement, has been amplified in the UK by a well-documented shortage of HGV drivers to transport the materials.

29.09.2021

A broker’s guide to placing crane hire risks

Here at Consilium we place a wide range of specialty risks, which can often be difficult to place with composite insurers.

06.09.2021

Is the current hard market here to stay?

After the dark days of 2017 – the year of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria – when Lloyd’s reported an underwriting loss of £3.4bn, it’s fair to say the intervening years have been good to the London market rating-wise.

14.07.2021

Perfecting your placement into the London market

Consilium’s Head of Distribution, Simon England, and Business Development Manager for the South, Shaun Woodhouse, have revealed their top tips for retail brokers getting specialty risks placed into London, in the latest edition of Consilium Explores.

16.06.2021

Consilium Explores the rebrand

The heads of motor and non-motor at the recently rechristened Consilium have spoken out about the recent rebrand, and how the new name will help the business.

09.06.2021

Consilium ready for lift off

After the worldwide economic disaster of the last 18 months the aviation industry has had mixed fates.  

01.06.2021

Fantasy football winner!

So that’s it, 38 hard fought gameweeks, and it all comes down to this, the final Consilium Fantasy Football league table.

20.05.2021

April Manager of the Month

We’re back with a Manager of the Month update for what is now the Consilium Fantasy Football League.

06.05.2021

The lights are on, Aventum is here

On 4th May we lit up the skies of the London market with a spectacular light show that announced in style the arrival of Aventum.

04.05.2021

Consilium – same family, different name

We are delighted to introduce you to Consilium!

29.04.2021

Same Day Payout

A client which runs a power plant in Bolivia suffered an internal turbine failure in July 2020.

27.04.2021

Aware & Alert

A local LatAm insurer client was in 2020 hit hard by two devastating catastrophes.

25.04.2021

Recent win - Motor Fleet

We took on a new fleet demolition risk for an independent broker taking on a consolidator broker.

25.04.2021

Recent win - Professional Indemnity

Our team worked with a well-known retail broker in order to quickly place a new PI design and construct risk.

25.04.2021

Recent win - Property

A broker brought to us a property follow line risk held with a leading insurer, which had seen the primary limit slashed from £50m to £20m at renewal.

25.04.2021

Recent win - Waste & Recycling

The Consilium team welcomed a new client requiring commercial combined waste cover across two sites in January 2021

27.03.2021

Fighting for our clients

A client which runs a power plant in Bolivia suffered an internal turbine failure in July 2020.