British Insurance Awards 2026 winners revealed

They were among the big winners as 1400 people attended the event at the Royal Albert Hall hosted by comedian and Celebrity Traitors winners Alan Carr.

The entertainment was topped of by music from Mark DeLisser Singers and Big Ocean, with Brit Award winner Ella Eyre closing the night of with a hit strewn set.

General Insurer of the Year 2026 QBE also took home the Best Insurance Employer - Large and shared the Major Loss Award Award with Walstead UK, Sedgwick and Thompson & Bryan.

Sedgwick was one of eight other multiple winners as it also scooped the Claims Initiative of the Year – Insurance Partner.

The other multiple winners were Ageas (two), Aviva (three), DWF Law (two), Equipsme (two), McGill and Partners (two), Native (two) and Zurich (three).

Clearspeed executive president of insurance Manjit Rana took home the Insurance Personality of the Year crown.

Unveiling Dame Sue Langley, pictured, as the Achievement Award winner Carr’s co-host, Insurance Post’s content director Jonathan Swift said: “Our 2026 British Insurance Awards achievement winner has gone from a globe trotting graduate without a plan to a globe trotter with a defined plan to promote the City – and its insurance market – across the world.”

He added: “Over the last decade and a half this person has sat on the UK board of Gallagher, been a trustee of MacMillan Cancer Support and worked for the Department of International Trade and in the Home Office.

“In 2015 this person was given an OBE in the New Years Honours List and they became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours.

“Most recently our winner has come to prominence as an East Ender done good looking to champion social mobility and unsquare the Square Mile, as the 697th holder of an office that dates back to 1189, becoming only the third woman to take on the role, and the first to formally adopt the title Lady – not Lord Mayor – of the City of London.”

Best Insurance Employer – SME

• Bspoke Group
• Equipsme – Winner
• IC Insurance
• Konsileo
• NBS Underwriting

Best Insurance Employer – Large Company

• Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Management [AND-E]
• Axa
• NFU Mutual
• Pen Underwriting
• QBE – Winner
• Zurich

Broker Partner of the Year

• Ageas UK – Winner
• Allianz UK
• Alps
• Arch Insurance
• Aviva
• Intact Insurance

Claims Initiative of the Year – Insurance Partner

• Disaster Care Platinum
• DWF Law
• FMG
• McLarens
• Sedgwick Building Consultancy – Heritage Service – Winner
• Sutherland Global 

Claims Initiative of the Year – Insurer

• AA Accident Assist
• Beazley
• Direct Commercial
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Policy Expert – Winner
• Urban Jungle

Commercial Lines Broker of the Year SME/Mid Market

• Admiral Business
• Brunel Insurance Brokers
• Independent connections
• Native – Winner
• Premierline
• Sutcliffe & Co Insurance Brokers

Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year

• Allianz UK
• Aviva – Winner
• Axa Insurance
• Markel UK
• QBE
• Zurich Insurance

Customer Care Award

• Aviva – Home Claims
• Aviva
• Covéa Insurance
• Cover-More Europe
• Got You Covered
• The Insurance Emporium – Winner

Customer Experience Award

• 1st Central
• Atec
• Axa Insurance
• Hagerty UK
• Intact Insurance & Caravan Guard – Winner
• Urban Jungle

Digital Insurance Innovation of the Year

• 1st Central
• Baker Tilly
• Domestic & General – Winner
• Hagerty UK
• Open & IAG Loyalty
• Zego

Employee benefits insurer of the Year

• Equipsme – Winner
• Octopus Electric Vehicles & Admiral Business

ESG: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative of the Year Award

• Allianz UK
• Aviva
• Covéa Insurance
• DWF – Winner
• Intact Insurance
• SSP Broker

ESG: Sustainability Initiative of the Year

• Allianz UK
• Aon’s Displaced Workforce Impact Programme
• Markerstudy Group
• Octopus Electric Vehicles & Admiral Business
• QBE
• Zurich Insurance in partnership with Magic Breakfast – Winner

General Insurer of the Year

• Ageas
• Allianz
• Aviva
• AXA Insurance
• QBE – Winner
• Zurich

Industry Impact Award

• Ageas acquires Esure
• Aviva acquires Direct Line Group – Winner
• Intact buys into distribution with UKGI deal
• Nest teams up with Aardman on pension awareness campaign
• The Ben the Broker campaign from the British Insurance Brokers’ Association

Insurance Broker of the Year

• Aon
• Daines Kapp
• Got You Covered
• Konsileo
• LifeSearch
• McGill and Partners – Winner

Insurance Collaboration Award

• ACORD, Axa XL & Marsh
• Covéa Insurance
• Got You Covered – Winner
• Insurance Fraud Investigators Group, Verisk & International Association of Special Investigation Units
• Keoghs and Axa
• Waggel and Joii

Insurance Partner of the Year – Technology

• BCIS
• Clearwater Analytics – Winner
• Google Cloud UK
• Hyperexponential
• LexisNexis Risk Solutions
• Synergy Cloud

Insurance Partner of the Year – Professional Services

• CyberCube
• DAC Beachcroft CSG
• DWF Law – Winner
• McLarens
• Sedgwick
• Verisk

Insurance Personality of the Year

• Manjit Rana

The Insurance Start-Up Award [Previously Best Newcomer Award]

• Addept Insurance
• FraudOps
• Native – Winner
• Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company
• SAMP Technology
• Scrub AI

Life Insurance Company of the Year

• Scottish Widows
• Zurich – Winner

Lloyd’s and London Market Broking Team of the Year

• Acrisure Re - Consortium team
• BPL
• Burns & Wilcox
• FINPRO UK – Marsh

• Miller – Winner

   

Major Loss Award

• Aon
• Aviva and Crawford & Company
• FM
• McLarens and QBE
• QuestGates
• Walstead UK, QBE, Sedgwick and Thompson & Bryan – Winner

Managing General Agent of the Year

• Arkel
• Bspoke Group
• CFC
• KGM – Winner
• Prestige Underwriting
• Rokstone 

Personal Lines Broker of the Year

• AA Insurance
• AllClear
• Brunel Insurance for People
• Got You Covered
• Waggel – Winner

Personal Lines Insurer of the Year

• 1st Central
• Ageas UK – Winner
• Aviva
• Axa Retail
• Covéa Insurance
• Policy Expert

Reinsurer of the Year

• OAK Global – Winner

Risk and Resilience Award

• AlteaPlus
• Coalition
• Harwell Restoration
• Intact Insurance
• Previsico
• Ukraine War Risks Reinsurance Facility – the Crisis Management team at McGill and Partners -Winner

Small Broker of the Year

• Daines Kapp
• Fuzzy Insurance
• Independent Connections
• Munro-Greenhalgh – Winner
• Premier Insurance Centre
• Sutcliffe & Co Insurance Brokers

Specialist Insurance Company of the Year

• Ansvar Insurance
• ARAG
• Arch Insurance
• Ecclesiastical Insurance
• HDI Global – Winner
• SiriusPoint

Technology Award

• Aviva – Winner
• Fluence World
• Ki
• Lycetts Insurance Brokers working with Recorder Tech
• Percayso Vehicle Intelligence (recently rebranded to Cazana)
• Reserv
• Sixfold

Training and Development Award

• Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Management [AND-E] – Winner
• Covéa Insurance
• Crawford & Company - Crawford Academy
• McLarens
• NFU Mutual
• QBE and Solution Cell

Unsung Hero

• Emma Holland, Aviva
• Mike Hurry, McLarens
• Debbie Jones, Claims Consortium Group
• Ryan Lysaght, DWF Law
• Anish Vara, Intact Insurance
• Rebecca Webster, McLarens – Winner

Young Achiever of the Year

• Yasmin Berhardt, Altea – Winner
• Dan Demmar, NFU Mutual
• Charlotte Evanson, Sedgwick International UK
• George Faulkner, Merlin Insurance Brokers
• Michael Reynolds, HDI Global
• Kieran Rosewell, Aviva

The Achievement Award

• Dame Sue Langley, the Lady Major of the City of London