The Healthcare Liability team offers tailored solutions to the insurance and reinsurance needs of clients in an ever-changing healthcare environment. It operates worldwide, with a particular focus on the US, European and Australian markets.
Our clients range from small single location nursing homes and allied health providers to world-renowned universities and international healthcare groups.
We provide Professional Liability coverage solutions for hospitals, physician groups, elder care and allied health companies—either as insurance or as facultative reinsurance through open market placements, line slips or by issuing binding authorities.
We act in both lead and following roles, writing primary and/or excess layers.
Linesize Worldwide coverage USD/GBP/Euro 12.5m
An experienced specialist team
The Barbican Healthcare Liability team, led by Andy Hornsblow, combines considerable experience in the healthcare professional liability marketplace with depth of knowledge in both underwriting and claims handling.
Andy Hornsblow
Underwriting Manager
T +44 (0)20 7082 1865
andy.hornsblow@barbicaninsurance.com
Andy Hornsblow joined Barbican in 2008, bringing a rare combination of management skills and focused underwriting experience.
Having specialised in healthcare for the last 10 years, he also enjoys excellent working relationships across the healthcare sector of the London market.
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Effective claims management
We strongly believe that collaboration is the best approach to effective claims management. We will never attempt to force you to settle a claim, preferring to work with you to help you deal with each claim as it develops.
When a claim arises, we make a point of actively engaging with you early in the process, making sure we understand the nature of each claim from the outset. Our objective is always to resolve claims as quickly and fairly as possible and we have built important partnerships to help us achieve this.
We work together with a range of carefully selected claims representatives, who have over many years built up a bank of claims litigation experience and incident resolution management knowledge. They are always on hand to give guidance if required.
As a Lloyd’s syndicate, we subscribe to the Lloyd’s claims principles. This provides our clients with the additional reassurance of an official and approved approach to claims handling.
Building client relationships
We see ourselves as partners, working alongside our clients to understand their specific needs and then meet their requirements through tailored and effective solutions. Healthcare liability is a long tail business. We believe it is essential, therefore, to build mutually beneficial and enduring relationships. We recognise the need for consistency and reliability in a constantly fluctuating pricing environment. So, we make it a priority to work closely with our clients to manage the excesses of the market cycle.
Regular visits to our clients are an important feature in supporting relationships, helping us to keep in direct touch with the evolving healthcare market and the insurance needs arising from it.
Working together to reduce risk
The management of risk is essential in the healthcare setting and fundamental to our business.
To support our clients in this key area, we have partnered with selected leading risk management consultants to provide risk management education services. These are available to all our clients if they so choose.
The shape of our business
Healthcare Liability, part of Barbican’s Specialty division, currently accounts for about 6% of the Barbican Syndicate’s total capacity.
We have lead and follow relationships with some of the most well established health systems in the US, including large teaching hospitals on both seaboards. We also support numerous regional, specialist and community hospital systems, including several children’s hospitals, and physicians groups both in and outside the US.
In the area of long term care, we lead a proven nursing home underwriting facility; our open market accounts vary in size from multi-state skilled nursing providers to single location assisted and independent living facilities.
Our allied health portfolio ranges from worldwide nurse staffing agencies to single state radiology service providers, issued through binding authorities and open market placement.
The overall objective of the Barbican Healthcare team is to build a diverse book of worldwide business, drawing on our strengths, experience and reliability to work collaboratively with clients in any healthcare setting to minimise and transfer their professional liability risk.
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