This award is open to carriers and brokers and any technology business providing services including claims services providers, actuaries, risk modelling and other similar businesses. Applicants might be a single provider, partnership or collaboration across the market. This category is designed to recognise the application of this technology and the businesses who have made strides in AI adoption across the North American sector.

Judges are looking for innovation and uniqueness, business impact, improved outcomes and results. Specifically, the
technology implemented should be for application and problem solving in the sector. Judges will also be adding
weight to solutions which are scalable, ethical and fair. 

Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2025, and working in the broking sector. The nominee will not be a senior manager even if under that age.

The winner will have already made a significant contribution to the industry, clearly demonstrating a solid input into the future development of (re)insurance distribution. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their department manager. Judges will be looking for something that makes them stand out as both a broker and market contributor.

This award recognizes the vital importance of marketing, comms and PR to our industry this award aims to highlight fantastic campaigns and communications initiatives. Winners will be a combination of the agency or team alongside the brand or product. Judges will be looking for qualitative evidence such as coverage, impact and recognition as
well as quantitative examples like conversations, leads, feedback and statistics on the campaign’s success.

Campaigns that could be considered include product launches, rebranding, M&A, ESG initiatives, customer success stories or any other. Any part of the insurance ecosystem could be considered whether in broking, underwriting or claims; but also providers of solutions for example, tech or analytics.

We encourage in-house teams and agencies to put in joint entries with their stakeholders

This award recognizes a breakthrough innovation in claims — one that has fundamentally improved how claims are assessed, managed, settled or communicated. This category celebrates those who are raising the bar for speed, accuracy, transparency and customer outcomes. The award is open to claims teams and technology providers and any other organisation operating within the claims ecosystem, whether as a single entity or through a partnership or collaboration.

Judges will be looking for clear evidence that the innovation has delivered meaningful, measurable improvement — not simply a new tool or process, but a genuine step change in claims performance. 

Candidates will be individuals working in the P&C sector, employed in the claims departments of intermediaries or carriers, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2025.

The winner of this category will have already made a significant contribution to the industry for the improvement in
the speed and quality of claims service and the enhancement of the reputation of the sector as a whole. The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate drive, innovation and evidence of their positive input into the future development of (re)insurance claims management. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their departmental
manager

This award celebrates the claims team that has delivered outstanding performance, collaboration and client service over the eligibility period. Claims teams sit at the heart of what (re)insurance promises to deliver, and this category recognises those who have done so with exceptional skill and dedication. Entries may represent a specialist unit, a
cross-functional team or an entire claims function, reflecting performance across a portfolio of work, a complex loss, or a sustained period of high-volume activity.

The Collaboration of the Year Award recognizes outstanding partnerships between two or more companies that have come together to solve a problem or challenge, resulting in an improved client solution or a remarkable outcome for the wider industry. Applicants could be any combination of carriers, brokers, MGAs and their service providers and the award is designed to celebrate the collaborative relationship dynamic for which our industry is famed.

Subjects for collaboration could be as wide ranging as talent to technology, claims services to operational efficiency. Judges are looking for evidence on a true collaboration to tackle a specific challenge, a unique but sustained partnership which has demonstrable benefits for the stakeholders, their customers and the wider P&C industry. 

This award recognises a breakthrough innovation in distribution that has fundamentally changed how (re)insurance risk is placed, accessed or traded over the eligibility period. The award is open to brokers, MGAs, MGUs, retail and wholesalers and technology providers operating within the distribution ecosystem, whether as a single entity or through a partnership or collaboration. Entries may reflect a new platform, trading model, market access initiative or client engagement approach — what matters is that it has moved the dial on how distribution is done

This award celebrates the distribution team that has delivered outstanding performance, market reach and client service over the eligibility period. Effective distribution is the engine of growth for any (re)insurance business, and this category recognises those who have placed the right risks with the right capacity with skill, creativity and
consistency. The award is open to the distribution teams and functions of brokers, MGAs, MGUs, retail and wholesalers operating in the (re)insurance industry. Entries may represent a specialist placement team, a regional or product-focused unit, or a broader distribution function, reflecting performance across a portfolio of business, a specific market initiative, or a sustained period of growth and expansion.

This award recognizes the work of a single team that excelled in the past year. Entrants will have demonstrated this excellence in several ways, including specialty-needs client service, securing reinsurance coverage for specialty needs, solid underwriting results and improved performance/business growth, with clear evidence of how the
reinsurer achieved this success.

The winner will be a specialty (re)insurer that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to client service in crafting coverage and servicing claims, balanced with outstanding underwriting performance.

In a post-pandemic world, colleagues and companies have fast evolving expectations on work-life balance. More than ever before, business needs to progress ideas about where and when people work. This is a trend which accelerated in the last two years but has been a consideration for employers and their workers alike for some-time.

The Employer of the Year will need to demonstrate a wide range of capabilities for a genuinely satisfied workforce to ensure they recruit and retain the best.

This award recognizes the accomplishments of a financial advisory firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways; re/insurance client service levels (including targets reached), expertise in serving the needs of insurance and reinsurance companies and growing and improving its standing in the insurance industry.

Demonstrable evidence of a how a firm has aided a re/insurance company in achieving an enviable result during a particularly challenging financial year will be looked upon favorably.

This award recognizes the work of an insurance asset management firm that performed especially well in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including the adoption and employment of new strategies, overall investment performance, client-service levels, and how the firm has grown and improved its
standing in the re/insurance industry.

Demonstrable evidence of a how a firm has significantly improved a client’s investment performance will be looked upon favorably.

This award is open to law firms of all sizes providing legal services and advice to the (re)insurance sector and wider market. The winner will be a law firm driving success through appropriate advice and representation for its clients across the sector. The law firm could be speciality in its practice or have specific practices areas for the sector.

Judges will be looking for value for money, demonstrable success from advice, impact cases and testimonial evidence.

Open to buyers and sellers of risk carriers, (re)insurers and intermediaries as well as their advisers. The prize will be awarded to the merger or acquisition the judges think has made the most economic as well as strategic sense in the past 18 months, producing a value adding proposition for both parties.

As well as the deal economics and rationale, judges will be looking at how cultural issues were dealt with and how well the deal was received by markets and investors, as well as how successfully its execution has progressed posttransaction.

This category recognizes the important role MGAs are playing in our marketplace as homes for entrepreneurial underwriters looking for independence, and as sources of new and diversifying profit streams for the carriers that back them.

Candidates will be managing general agencies that have provided an outstanding underwriting service to the P&C (re)insurance market in the past year and have brought product innovation to the markets they serve. The winner will be a company or a team which has demonstrated excellent underwriting performance in the past year, coupled with an ability to bring profitable business opportunities to its carrier backers that they would not otherwise have seen.

This award recognises the private equity firm that has demonstrated the greatest impact on the (re)insurance market over the eligibility period. Private equity has become an increasingly influential force in shaping the sector — providing capital, driving consolidation and backing the next generation of insurance businesses.

The award is open to any private equity firm that has made a significant investment, acquisition or strategic commitment within the (re)insurance ecosystem, whether as a majority owner, growth investor or minority partner.

This award recognises the private equity transaction that has had the greatest strategic and economic impact on the (re)insurance market over the eligibility period. From transformative acquisitions and platform builds to minority growth investments and recapitalisations, this category celebrates the deal that best exemplifies smart capital meeting market opportunity.

The award is open to any private equity-backed transaction involving a (re)insurer, broker, MGA, insurtech or other insurance-related business. Entries may be submitted by the investor, the target business, or financial and legal advisers to the transaction.

This category recognizes the creative ways in which carriers and MGAs work on specific and specialist lines, producing standout products meeting market demand. The winners of this award will be a partnership entry with a program meeting the demand for a risk to be placed and the innovative methods of product development.

Judges are looking to reward a partnership which has demonstrated excellent performance in the past year, coupled with an ability to bring profitable business opportunities to its backers that they would not otherwise have seen.

Open to all regulated reinsurance intermediaries serving the P&C markets. The judges will be looking for a company that can demonstrate continued incremental business expansion and improvement in turnover, margins and profits over the previous 12 months.

Judges will look to see how management and staff have embraced change in the pursuit of these goals as well as improvement in customer service and retention. The judges will also be interested in evidence of progress in the delivery of these and the broker’s stated business goals. 

Open to all regulated retail insurance intermediaries serving the P&C markets. The judges will be looking for a company that can demonstrate continued incremental business expansion and improvement in turnover, margins and profits over the previous 12 months.

Judges will look to see how management and staff have embraced change in the pursuit of these goals as well as improvement in customer service and retention. The judges will also be interested in evidence of progress in the delivery of these and the broker’s stated business goals. 

This award recognises the start-up that has made the most compelling debut or breakthrough in the (re)insurance market over the past 3 years (excluding the general eligibility period for these Honors). The category celebrates new entrants that are bringing fresh thinking, disruptive models or innovative solutions to a market that demands both ambition and execution.

The award is open to any newly established (re)insurer, broker, MGA, MGU, insurtech or service provider that has been operating for no more than three years at the time of entry. Entries may reflect a business at any stage of its growth journey, from early traction to significant scale, what matters is the quality of the idea, the strength of the team and the impact delivered.

This award recognizes an individual in the mid-stage of their career who is driving meaningful change within their organisation and making their mark on the wider (re)insurance market. The Trailblazer is not yet in the boardroom, but they are shaping what happens there. They are managing up and down, influencing peers and partners, and building a track record that suggests their best work is still ahead of them.

The ideal candidate will have delivered a significant initiative, innovation or shift in approach that has moved the needle within their business, across their trading relationships, or in the market more broadly.

This is an award for those who challenge the status quo, back their convictions and bring others with them. Nominations should tell the individual's story: the challenge or opportunity they identified, the action they took, and the mark they have already left on the business and market around them.

This award honours an underwriting initiative or new product launched in the last two years that has either broken boundaries in terms of innovation and increasing the size and scope of the market, has challenged the market context or has pushed the limit of traditional insurability. Judges may also consider entries from innovative capital
structures.

The winner will be an efficiently structured, well priced and successfully executed initiative, with the recipient either the individual(s) or team(s) that designed the product or risk carrying entity or those responsible for backing and spearheading the initiative.

Judges will be particularly looking for evidence of successful take-up and profitable implementation of the initiative.

Candidates will be (re)insurance underwriting teams and/or their managers. Candidates may be working at a (re)insurance risk carrier or at an underwriting agency.

Candidates will be an individual employed as an underwriter, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2025, and working in the P&C sector.

The winner will have already made a significant contribution to the industry and will be on a clear path to an important career in a leadership position. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their department manager.

This award celebrates the underwriting team that has delivered outstanding performance, technical discipline and client service over the eligibility period. The award is open to the underwriting teams and functions of carriers, reinsurers and MGAs operating across any line of P&C business. Entries may represent a specialist class team, a product-focused unit or a broader underwriting function, reflecting performance across a portfolio of business, a specific market initiative or a sustained period of growth.

This award recognizes a wholesale insurance broker that excelled in the past year. Entrants should demonstrate excellence in several ways; including the breadth and depth of coverage solutions provided, financial results, client retention levels, business growth and proven ability to provide access to a variety of specialty insurance markets. Demonstrable evidence of the wholesaler’s performance in helping clients ensure a variety of hard-to-place risks will be looked upon favorably.

The winner will be a wholesale broker that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding financial performance and client service.