UK Insurance division

Operating across a variety of product niches, the primary focus of Barbican’s UK Insurance division is on corporate, middle market, and scheme/affinity group clients in the UK and Ireland. The division fields a strong team of specialist underwriters headed by Stuart Kilpatrick.

The business handled by the division is broken down as follows:

Corporate—bespoke solutions, individually underwritten for UK domiciled companies. Property and Casualty ‘mono-line’ offerings. Open Market, providing Direct and Fac, Primary and Excess.

Middle market—package accounts across all lines of business, targeted at specific industries. Barbican-branded products and wordings, individually underwritten.

Schemes and affinity groups—portfolio-underwritten homogeneous risks, typically for clients such as buying groups. Major classes currently Property, Employers’ Liability, General Liability and Professional Indemnity.

Property—UK and Irish domiciled risks. Exposures worldwide with excess required for any critical catastrophe. Primary and excess—but not ‘ground up’, other than middle market and scheme/affinity group business.

Casualty—UK and Irish domiciled risks. Employers Liability, Public and Products Liability. Worldwide exposures including exports to USA/Canada. Primary and excess of loss.

UK SME—leading expertise and experience in the UK SME market and microbusiness sector. Integrated solutions for PI and general liabilities tailored to clients’ needs; bespoke solutions for specialised niche areas, affinity schemes and binders.

Capacity/Linesize

Property: £5m

Professional Indemnity: £5m

General Liability: £5m

Employer’s Liability £10m

Claims management

At Barbican, we really understand the critical importance of claims management to you and your clients. So we’ve put in place a first-class system specifically to meet the levels of service that are required.

Claims are managed on our behalf by DMS, acknowledged leaders in claims management solutions, providing a 24/7 operation covering the whole of the UK.

See more details on Barbican claims management.

Barbican Channel Islands

Barbican Channel Islands (BCI), based in Guernsey, also comes under the UK Insurance division. It provides a range of commercial insurances specifically designed for the Channel Islands marketplace.