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The US Honors are back!
Join our annual awards gala on September 19th at 583 Park Avenue in New York City as we celebrate exceptional talent from the US wholesale, specialty, and (re)insurance industry.
By submitting an entry before our deadline, you'll have the opportunity to have your work judged by a diverse panel of experts spanning from all corners of our vibrant industry.
The submissions deadline is Friday May 31, 2024. Click here to submit your entry. More information is available in the entry pack here.
Please find the 2024 categories, key dates and previous winners below.
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Key dates for 2024
Submission deadline
May 31 2024
Shortlist announcement
July 18 2024
Awards ceremony
September 19 2024
2024 Categories
2024 Categories
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The winner of this category will be a longstanding leader of a major North American (re)insurer that has demonstrated success over many years. Previous winners of this title include Mark Cloutier, Kevin O’Donnell and Pat Ryan.
Entries are not accepted for this award, the winner is decided by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
This award recognizes the work of a single (re)insurer that writes business across the Americas, whether based nationally or abroad, that excelled in the past year. Entrants will demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including excellence in client service, positive underwriting results and improved performance and business growth, with clear evidence of how the insurer achieved this success. Candidates will be (re)insurers that have provided an outstanding service to the P&C market in the past year.
The winner will be a company that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting performance. -
This award recognizes valuable and actionable data provided in the past year. Judges will be looking for distinct advantages as a direct result of the insight provided. Special projects may be used as evidence to support your entry.
The winner will be a firm that demonstrates they consistently provide insight, data and analytics of value. -
Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2023, 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. -
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.
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This award recognizes the work of a casualty team, that excelled in the past year. Entrants demonstrated this excellence in a number of ways, including a firm’s comparative casualty losses to other reinsurers, improvements in underwriting, diversified business growth, and client service, among other factors.
The winner will be a casualty team that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting 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 2023.
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. -
The award recognizes a broking innovation of the last two years that has either broken boundaries in terms of its originality and success in increasing the size and scope of the market or brought insurance solutions to satisfy emerging customer demand. Perhaps the initiative has challenged a cosy market Context or has pushed the limits of insurability, using new thinking to solve old and intractable problems?
The winner will be an attractively designed, well-marketed and successfully executed initiative. Judges will be particularly looking for evidence of successful take-up from the winning entry. Entrants will be (re)insurance broking teams and/or their managers. -
This award is open to all insurance and reinsurance intermediaries, risk carriers, agents and investors working in the P&C (re)insurance markets, as well as the trade bodies, organizations, associations and clubs that serve them.
The focus should be on programs, events and other activities designed to promote and further inclusion and diversity. This category shall include but not be limited to actively improving the opportunities and advancement of inclusivity and socio-economic diversity of the (re)insurance market carried out in the year to 1 April 2024.
Judges will be particularly interested in proof of the efficacy of the initiative(s), the wider positive impact across the marketplace as well as the level of innovation, creativity and originality of entries. Winners will be Programs, initiatives with real on-going results which speak to colleagues and customers across a spectrum of underrepresented characteristics in the insurance market. -
This award recognizes the work of a single team that excelled in the past year. Entrants will have demonstrated this excellence in a number of 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.
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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. A trend which has in the past two been accelerated 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.- Great employers will have regular and comprehensive communication with their workforce to measure and monitor the mood of their teams.
- A cultural strategy which encompasses inclusion, well-being, occupational health and freedom to speak up
- Specific considerations are needed to ensure that, maternity, paternity, childcare, and homelife are managed alongside the pressures of work.
- Employers must innovate to ensure their intake is more representative of the society they serve through training Programs, outreach to educational establishments and HR policies that ensure fair recruitment
- Benefits and remuneration are key to equality and retention through Programs which reduce the gender pay-gap for example
- Equal opportunities for progression and promotion through learning, training and education initiatives
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This award recognizes that our market has a part to play in the long-term future of our planet, the success of our businesses and the choices our people make. The winner will be able to demonstrate a program which sits as part of a wider ESG strategy and could include several different elements which could include:
- Investment strategies
- Equal and progressive recruitment practice
- Community outreach and investment
- Supply chain management
- Ethical business practice
- Waste and energy management
- Net zero strategies
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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 accomplishments of a fronting carrier team that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways; service to insurer and cedant partners, lines and sizes that has been written, or how the team controlled the risk that is being retained.
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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 any organization able to demonstrate the successful application of effective new technologies to the (re)insurance market. It is open to insurance industry incumbents as well as pure insurtech businesses.
The focus for candidates should be on demonstrating the successful launch of a product or service that transfers and/or distributes (re)insurance risk in more effective, innovative, and revolutionary ways.
Judges will be particularly interested in the level of originality, efficiency and scale of ambition shown by the entry as well as evidence of its acceptance by the investor community and/or successful collaboration with the existing traditional (re)insurance industry. As well as innovation, judges will also be looking for tangible and effective measurement of success within the context of profitable growth. -
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. -
The editorial team have awarded this honour to a person who they believe has distinguished themselves whilst making the highest contribution to the industry over the course of their working life. The winner is an individual working in – or providing services to – the P&C markets through a career that has spanned at least 20 years.
This category is not eligible for entry and will be selected by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
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 post-transaction. -
This category intends to recognize the increasingly 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.
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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. -
This award recognizes the work of a property catastrophe team that excelled in the past year. Entrants demonstrated this excellence in a number of ways, including a firm’s comparative catastrophe losses to other reinsurers, improvements in underwriting, diversified business growth, and catastrophe response, among other factors.
The winner will be a catastrophe team that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting performance. -
This award recognizes a single rating agency that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways, including the quality of its market intelligence; the ability to consistently provide fair and accurate assessments; and innovations to the ratings process, among other factors.
Demonstrable evidence of how the agency has provided dependable, original insight to the benefit of the industry will be looked upon favorably. -
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 recognizes the work of a catastrophe risk-modelling firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including precision/accuracy of the models developed, client service levels, and/or successful innovations in the science of cat risk modelling.
Demonstrable evidence of a modeler’s response to a major catastrophe and its subsequent service to clients will be considered, with a focus on where the firm has gone above and beyond typical expectations to distinguish itself in this field. -
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 2023, 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 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. -
This award category is designed to celebrate the innovations and developments that the insurance market has been making to grow inclusivity for women at senior levels. It will be awarded to an organisation that has put progress, representation, and inclusion at the heart of its agenda. We are looking for the best initiative(s) with demonstrable contribution to the advancement of women within the industry.
The winner of this award will have developed a range of initiatives which could include career development, gender diversity recruitment campaigns, work-life balance.
Judges will be looking for impact and influence not just on the business, but on the partners and in the wider market.
Winners will be specific initiatives and/or organisations rather than individuals. If there are leading women spearheading initiatives, judges will take this into consideration as an organisational representative.
2024 Partners
Our 2024 event partners
2023 Winners
Our 2023 Winners
Brazilian Reinsurer of the Year
Everest
Broking Rising Star of the Year
Spencer Dickman, Vice President, Atlantic Region, Complex Risk Leader, NFP
High commendation awarded to Evelyn Kim, Aon
Caribbean and Central American Reinsurer of the Year
Everest
Casualty Underwriting Team of the Year
Ascot E&S Casualty
High commendation awarded to Everest, Wholesale Casualty Team
Claims Rising Star of the Year
Glenn Scheideler, Head of Claims Insights and Analytics, Beazley
Continuing Education Initiative of the Year
Zurich North America - Middle Market Risk Manager MMRM™ professional designation program
Distribution Innovation of the Year
Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC) - Lance, ISC Underwriting Artificial Intelligence
Diversity & Inclusion Award - Sponsored by RPS
Markel
Employer of the Year
Markel
ESG Initiative of the Year
AXIS Capital - Science-Based Aligned Scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals
High commendation awarded to QBE, AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge
Financial Advisory Firm of the Year
Howden Tiger Capital Markets & Advisory
High commendation awarded to Merger & Acquisition Services
IMCA Award of Insurance Marketing Excellence
Church Mutual
Insurance Asset Management Firm of the Year
Conning
InsurTech Product of the Year - Sponsored by Locke Lord LLP
CyberCube
High commendation awarded to QBE
Lifetime Achievement Award - Sponsored by Lloyds Bank
Dan Glaser, Former President and CEO, Marsh McLennan
M&A Transaction of the Year
Howden
MGA / MGU of the Year - Sponsored by Locke Lord LLP
EverSports & Entertainment Insurance®
Property Catastrophe Underwriting Team of the Year
SageSure
Rating Agency of the Year
AM Best
(Re)Insurer of the Year
Markel
Reinsurance Broker of the Year
Guy Carpenter
(Re)insurance CEO of the Year
Mark Cloutier, Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer, Aspen
Retail Broker of the Year - Sponsored by Markel
CAC Group (CAC Specialty & Cobbs Allen)
Risk Carrier Team of the Year
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM)
Risk Modelling Firm of the Year
Moody's RMS
Specialty Underwriting Team of the Year
Burns & Wilcox - Flood Team
Start-up Business of the Year
Ryan Specialty - Emerald Underwriting Managers
Underwriting Innovation of the Year - Sponsored by Origin Specialty Underwriters
Counterpart
Underwriting Rising Star of the Year
Emelie Klehr, Senior Underwriter, PERse
High commendation awarded to Tony Case, Markel
Wholesale Broker of the Year
RT Specialty
Women in Insurance Award (Individual)
Lenika Milne, Chief Marketing Officer, One80 Intermediaries
High commendation awarded to Shannon Stevens, Markel
Women in Insurance Award (Initiatives)
Euclid Transactional
High commendation awarded to Cybercube
P&C Honors St John's University Award
David Ramdeen, Quantitative Risk Management and Insurance Program Student
Fiona Karol, Honors Quantitative Risk Insurance Student
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