Our risk appetite spans a wide range of financial and professional classes.
- Depth of knowledge across financial and professional lines
- Underwriting financial and commercial institutions on a worldwide basis
- Long-term relationships and high levels of customer service
Why work with us
In this highly specialised area, our depth of knowledge enables us to offer a wide range of solutions to financial institutions and professional firms. We have a broad risk appetite, writing on a worldwide basis. We are focused on establishing long-term relationships and providing a high-quality underwriting and claims service.
As well as financial and professional lines, we also provide commercial management liability cover predominately for mid-market clients in a range of territories across the world. Our extensive, specialist expertise also means we are able to develop bespoke coverage to meet unique risk requirements.
Our product lines
- For financial institutions (FI)
- Directors' and officers' liability (including EPL entity cover)
- Bankers' blanket bond (with extensions available for cyber liability)
- Bankers’ professional liability
- Pension trustee liability
- For professions
- Errors and omissions (professional indemnity), packaged with general liability for SME business
- Commercial institutions (management liability)
- Directors' and officers' liability (including EPL entity cover)
- Pension trustee liability
- Commercial crime (with extensions available for cyber liability)
- Transactional liability - representations (reps and warranties/tax opinion liability)
Brokers can find us at Lloyd's: Box 250
For more information about financial and professional lines insurance from Barbican, contact:
Gavin Stanley
Gavin joined Barbican in February 2010 and is underwriting manager for financial and professional lines.
Gavin started his underwriting career in 1997 at AIG in the management liability unit before moving to Liberty Mutual in 2003 as senior underwriter for D&O liability, pension trustee liability and employment practice liability.
Gavin was then recruited by Novae as class underwriter for the non-US directors and officers liability. In 2008, Gavin joined Aspen Insurance, where, along with the unit head, he set up a new worldwide D&O liability account.
Gavin is also a committee member of Lloyd’s Yacht Club.
Adam Wickens
Adam joined Barbican in September 2016 and is class underwriter for financial and professional lines.
Adam was national management liability sales and development manager at AXA, prior to joining Barbican, having joined the firm in October 2012 as a senior management liability underwriter. During his extensive insurance career, he has gained considerable experience in the financial lines market, holding related underwriting positions at ACE Europe, HCC Global Financial Products and Royal & Sun Alliance.
Sarah McGurk
Sarah joined Barbican in February 2018 and is class underwriter for directors’ & officers’ (D&O) liability insurance.
After graduating with both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Law, Sarah worked as a broker in England and Canada, developing expertise in energy, oil & gas, mining and general commercial D&O. She began underwriting D&O in 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.
Since returning to England in 2013, Sarah worked initially to build a public company portfolio with the syndicate side of Travelers and subsequently at The Standard Syndicate, a start-up sponsored by The Standard P&I Club concentrating on ship owners and the marine industry.
Sarah is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) and Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP).
Mark Sutton
Mark joined Barbican in January 2015 and is underwriter for Financial and Professional Lines.
Prior to joining Barbican, Mark was an assistant hull and war underwriter within the marine division at Markel International; a position which he had held since September 2008 having previously worked as an underwriting assistant within its underwriting support team. Mark began his insurance career at NDP/Claims Assistance UK in March 2003 as a claims assistant.
James Knight
James joined Barbican in January 2015 and is underwriting assistant for specialty.
Prior to joining Barbican, James was an underwriting assistant at CFC underwriting. James also has experience within broking following a spell at Miles Smith Insurance Brokers.
James is currently studying towards Cert CII accreditation and holds a degree in History.