The winners of the Insurance Day Awards 2011

Winners Announced December 1st 2011

Our exclusive and esteemed awards ceremony took place on December 1 at the sophisticated Grosvenor Hotel in London. It was an important night in the London insurance market calendar, where more than 500 movers and shakers were in attendance to witness the insurance industry’s most prestigious and hotly-contested awards ceremony.

The big winners of the night were by far Company of the Year which went to Beazley and the Achiever of the Year which went to Nick Furlonge.

The full list of winners from the night are listed below.

Insurance Initiative of the Year

Highly Commended : LMG Endorsements Initiative
Winner: JLT Specialty: Project Deep Sea

The Corporate Social Responsibility Award

Highly Commended : Lockton: Corporate Social Responsibility
Willis Group: Commercial Sustainability

Young Broker of the Year

Michael Lambert — Miller Insurance Services

Young Underwriter of the Year

Dawn Zacharow, Allied World Assurance Company
Sponsor: KPMG

Claims Team of the Year

Cooper Gay Global Response Team
Sponsor: Clyde & Co

Professional Adviser of the Year

PricewaterhouseCoopers: Supporting the London Market

Technological Initiative of the Year

The BMS Group: The BMS Group iPad Initiative
Sponsor: Acord

Transaction of the Year

Towers Watson (For its acquisition of EMB)
Sponsor: Holman Fenwick Willan

Broking Team of the Year

Aon Benfield ReSolutions team
Sponsor: Markel

Underwriting Team of the Year

CFC Underwriting
Sponsor: Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

Company of the Year

Beazley
Sponsor: Swiss Re

Industry Achiever of the Year

Nick Furlonge
Sponsor: Dewey & LeBoeuf

The Sponsors

ACORD

ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit standards development organization serving the insurance industry and related financial services industries. ACORD's mission is to facilitate the development of open consensus data standards and standard forms. ACORD members include hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, agents and brokers, software providers, and industry associations worldwide. ACORD works with these organizations towards a goal of improved data communication across diverse platforms through implementation of standards. ACORD maintains offices in New York and London.

ACORD is a member-driven organization whose members work together to improve the flow of insurance information between systems and partners. ACORD Standards and services improve data quality and transparency, resulting in greater efficiency, and expanded market reach.
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Clyde & Co

Clyde & Co LLP, is a world leader in the sectors of insurance and reinsurance, aviation, marine and international trade and energy. With a reputation founded upon facilitating international trade and commerce, the firm now advises businesses in more than 120 countries.

Insurance and reinsurance are core to our business. The firm has been at the heart of developments in these sectors and has advised on some of the highest profile cases. The effective integration of our insurance and reinsurance teams offers clients specialisation in areas as diverse as political and credit risk, product liability, regulatory, professional indemnity, marine, energy and healthcare. With a dedicated team of corporate insurance specialists, Clyde & Co also advises insurance clients at every stage of their development.

With a global network of offices spanning Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, Africa the Far East, the US and Latin America, comprising over 733 fee earners, lawyers and 1300 staff worldwide, Clyde & Co has a genuine multi-jurisdictional capability that sets it apart from other insurance law firms.

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Dewey &LeBoeuf

Dewey amp; LeBoeuf is a full-service law firm providing counsel throughout the United States, Europe, Russia/CIS, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. With more than 1,300 lawyers in major financial and commercial centres, the firm represents national and global corporations, financial institutions and government agencies in their most complex legal matters.

The firm has a long-established reputation for its practice in the insurance industry. We represent all sectors of this complex international industry, including life, non-life and health insurers and reinsurers, intermediaries, bankers and capital providers. The firm's insurance practitioners are deployed in all of its major offices around the world.
Dewey & LeBoeuf's leadership in the insurance industry has been recognized by a number of legal publications and organizations. Our rankings include being named “Band 1 in Insurance Transactional and Regulatory in New York” for five consecutive years (Chambers USA, 2005-2009) and “Reinsurance / Insurance Law Firm of the Year” for the seventh consecutive year (Reactions magazine, 2002-2008).
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Holman Fenwick Willan

Holman Fenwick Willan LLP ( HFW ) is a specialist international law firm, advising prestigious clients, engaged in international commerce across a broad spread of industry sectors. We listen and respond timely; where appropriate, we try to anticipate. Our highly respected cross — border multi-disciplinary insurance and reinsurance group delivers high quality legal services, tailored to individual client needs and budget. We take pride in working with clients enthusiastically and collegiately combining industry expertise, relevant technical skills and experience and a first class professional network, to help clients achieve their objectives — whether in closing a key corporate deal, ensuring regulatory compliance, or cost-effectively lawyering the resolution of a major, complex dispute.

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KPMG LLP (UK)

As an integrated business, KPMG LLP (UK) is in a strong position to respond to client needs, bringing together the right teams at the right time, across disciplines and across borders. The key to our success as a firm lies in our ability to match our insights and skills to the strategic goals of our clients, day in and day out. In the UK we have 50 Partners and over 650 staff dedicated to our insurance clients. As well as advising clients on their response to the biggest issues facing them today and tomorrow, KPMG member firms' work with regulators and trade bodies globally. Together with our specialist insurance teams, located in our clients centres of business, this gives us a wealth of international insight and experience.

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Markel International

Markel International is the London-based subsidiary for the International operations of Markel Corporation, a US property and casualty insurance group with a long and distinguished history. Founded in the 1920's by Sam Markel, Markel Corporation wrote gross premiums of $2.2bn in 2008, and has a market capitalism of approximately $3bn (as at December 31, 2008). Markel International was created after Markel Corporation acquired Terra Nova Insurance Company in 2000.
A holding company, Terra Nova, wrote a diverse portfolio of property, casualty, marine and aviation insurance and reinsurance worldwide. The acquisition gave Markel access to new markets and greatly enlarged the brand's speciality business. Markel International wrote gross premiums of $693m in 2008. Markel International operates in the UK through two commercial entities:

• Markel International Insurance Company Limited (MIICL), a London based insurance company
• Markel Syndicate 3000, a 100% Markel — owned Lloyd's corporation syndicate

MIICL is licensed:

• for insurance in all EU countries
• has a surplus lines license in 47 US states plus District of Columbia & US Virgin Islands is an Accredited Reinsurer in 47 US states plus District Columbia.

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Swiss Re

At Swiss Re, our business is to enable the risk taking that is essential to enterprise and progress around the world, and to reduce the financial uncertainty associated with risk. Our mission is clear and simple: to be the leading player in the wholesale (re)insurance industry. For clients and brokers, this means being their preferred partner, delivering a service unmatched elsewhere in the market.

Combining global expertise and local knowledge, we provide clients with financially sound risk transfer solutions in all lines of business.

Our client and broker relationships are built on trust and understanding, and on sharing success. Few competitors can match our significant risk capacity, our high counterparty security, our innovative spirit, and the expertise of our people.

Swiss Re is proud to sponsor this year's Company of the Year award. While there can only be one winner on the night, we can help make winners of all our clients and brokers, every day of the year. www.swissre.com

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