To be eligible for consideration, organisations must:

• Be a publicly or privately held business
• Be a for-profit or not-for-profit business
• Be based in the UK
• Have a minimum of 20 full-time or part-time employees working in the UK
• Must be in business a minimum of 1 year
• Have 50% or more of revenue relating to commercial or group insurance as outlined in the three categories below
• Must be one of the following 8 options within the insurance industry:

Category 1 – AGENTS/BROKERS:

1) Retail Agents/Brokers: are companies that work directly with policyholders to place commercial lines insurance business and provide related services.

2) Wholesale Brokers/Managing General Agents: are companies that derive more than 50% of their premium volume from wholesale brokerage or companies that derive more than 50% of their premium volume from acting as a managing general agent, underwriting manager or Lloyd’s of London cover holder (authority to bind risks for Lloyd’s syndicates, similar to an MGA).

3) Reinsurance Brokers: are companies that work directly with ceding companies to place reinsurance and provide related services.

4) Benefits Brokers & Consultants: are companies that engage in group health plan consulting, design, administration or procurement.

Category 2 – INSURERS:

5) Property/Casualty Insurers: are companies that underwrite commercial lines property/casualty insurance on an admitted or non-admitted basis.

6) Group Life/Health Insurers: are companies that underwrite group health insurance, managed care companies and companies that underwrite group life insurance.

7) Reinsurers: are companies that assume all or a portion of the risk and premium taken by an insurer. Reinsurers effectively insure insurance companies.

Category 3 – SERVICE ORGANISATIONS:

8) Service Organisations: organisations that are aligned with the commercial insurance industry or provide insurance or risk management support related services to policyholders. Example organisations in this category are captive managers, legal, claims management / adjusting / disaster recovery, consultants, technology services. Please contact us if you are not sure if your organisation qualifies for this category.

Disclaimer

Best Companies Group and our partners reserve the right to exclude any participating organisation that does not align with the intent and spirit of the programme. We also reserve the right to re-categorise participants into their respective categories above, if needed.

How to enter your organisation

All organisations will participate in one of three ways:

1. As an individual organisation possessing one Registered Company Number.

2. As the parent/holding company of multiple organisations with one Registered Company Number for all subsidiaries. The parent/holding company must register with all eligible employees working for that parent/holding company.

3. Subsidiaries of a parent/holding organisation may register separately if each subsidiary organisation possesses a separate Registered Company Number. If the organisation has multiple facilities, branches, factories, offices or stores, all locations must be included in the survey if they operate under the same Registered Company Number.

Which employees to include

Include all current, full-time and part-time UK employees in the survey process, from the CEO, partners, all the way to line-level employees, including remote employees. Remote employees are defined as employees that work from home or on the road in the UK who directly report to a supervisor in the UK.

Exclude all temporary, seasonal or per diem employees, employees/independent contractors, volunteers, interns, outside consultants or staffing employees placed by other organisations.