Insurance Insider Honors
September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC
Insurance Insider Honors
September 25, 2025 | 583 Park Avenue, NYC
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Celebrating (re)insurance excellence
The Insurance Insider Honors are back at 583 Park Avenue, NY for 2025!
On September 25, we will be welcoming the the (re)insurance industry to celebrate and reflect on the outstanding contributions and achievements from the previous year.
This is your chance to celebrate your team, innovations and success stories that made your year. We have a range of award categories that enable you to benchmark your work against the very best our market has to offer.
The extended entry deadline is Friday June 6. View the categories below and submit your entries.
To download and review the entry guide, register here. Find out about our partnership opportunities or if you need any help with your submissions, click here.
Key dates for 2025
Key dates for 2025
Submissions deadline
Friday, June 6, 2025
Shortlist announcement
Wednesday, July 23 2025
Award ceremony
Thursday, September 25 2025
Download the Entry Guide
Entry guide
2025 Categories
Categories
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This award is open to carriers and brokers and any technology business providing services including claims services providers, actuaries, risk modelling and other similar businesses. Applicants might be a single provider, partnership or collaboration across the market. This category is designed to recognise the application of this technology and the businesses who have made strides in AI adoption across the North American sector.
Judges are looking for innovation and uniqueness, business impact, improved outcomes and results. Specifically, the technology implemented should be for application and problem solving in the sector. Judges will also be adding weight to solutions which are scalable, ethical and fair. -
This award recognizes the work of a single (re)insurer that writes business across the Americas, whether based nationally or abroad, that excelled in the past year. Entrants will demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including excellence in client service, positive underwriting results and improved performance and business growth, with clear evidence of how the insurer achieved this success. Candidates will be (re)insurers that have provided an outstanding service to the P&C market in the past year.
The winner will be a company that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent highquality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting performance. -
The winner of this category will be a longstanding leader of a major North American (re)insurer that has demonstrated success over many years. Previous winners of this title include Mark Cloutier, Kevin O’Donnell and Pat Ryan.
Entries are not accepted for this award; the winner is decided by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
This award recognizes valuable and actionable data provided in the past year. Judges will be looking for distinct advantages as a direct result of the insight provided. Special projects may be used as evidence to support your entry.
Judges will be looking for evidence of accurate, sophisticated reporting actioned by clients. Entrants can provide examples of major client success in the form of brief case studies or client testimonial. Work must have been completed in the past 12-18 months. The winner will be a firm that demonstrates they consistently provide insight, data and analytics of value. -
Candidates will be an individual, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2024, and working in the broking sector. The nominee will not be a senior manager even if under that age.
The winner will have already made a significant contribution to the industry, clearly demonstrating a solid input into the future development of (re)insurance distribution. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their department manager. Judges will be looking for something that makes them stand out as both a broker and market contributor. -
This award recognizes the vital importance of marketing, comms and PR to our industry this award aims to highlight fantastic campaigns and communications initiatives. Winners will be a combination of the agency or team alongside the brand or product. Judges will be looking for qualitative evidence such as coverage, impact and recognition as well as quantitative examples like conversations, leads, feedback and statistics on the campaign’s success.
Campaigns that could be considered include product launches, rebranding, M&A, ESG initiatives, customer success stories or any other. Any part of the insurance ecosystem could be considered whether in broking, underwriting or claims; but also providers of solutions for example, tech or analytics.
We encourage in-house teams and agencies to put in joint entries with their stakeholders. -
This award recognizes the work of a casualty team, that excelled in the past year. Entrants demonstrated this excellence in a number of ways, including a firm’s comparative casualty losses to other reinsurers, improvements in underwriting, diversified business growth, and client service, among other factors.
The winner will be a casualty team that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting performance -
Candidates will be individuals working in the P&C sector, employed in the claims departments of intermediaries or carriers, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2024.
The winner of this category will have already made a significant contribution to the industry for the improvement in the speed and quality of claims service and the enhancement of the reputation of the sector as a whole. The successful candidate will clearly demonstrate drive, innovation and evidence of their positive input into the future development of (re)insurance claims management. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their departmental manager. -
The award recognizes a broking innovation of the last two years that has either broken boundaries in terms of its originality and success in increasing the size and scope of the market or brought insurance solutions to satisfy emerging customer demand. Perhaps the initiative has challenged a cosy market or has pushed the limits of insurability, using new thinking to solve old and intractable problems?
The winner will be an attractively designed, well-marketed and successfully executed initiative. Judges will be particularly looking for evidence of successful take-up from the winning entry. Entrants will be (re)insurance broking teams and/or their managers. -
This award recognizes the work of a single team that excelled in the past year. Entrants will have demonstrated this excellence in several ways, including specialty-needs client service, securing reinsurance coverage for specialty needs, solid underwriting results and improved performance/business growth, with clear evidence of how the reinsurer achieved this success.
The winner will be a specialty (re)insurer that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to client service in crafting coverage and servicing claims, balanced with outstanding underwriting performance. -
In a post-pandemic world, colleagues and companies have fast evolving expectations on work-life balance. More than ever before, business needs to progress ideas about where and when people work. This is a trend which accelerated in the last two years but has been a consideration for employers and their workers alike for some-time.
The Employer of the Year will need to demonstrate a wide range of capabilities for a genuinely satisfied workforce to ensure they recruit and retain the best. -
This award recognizes the accomplishments of a financial advisory firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways; re/insurance client service levels (including targets reached), expertise in serving the needs of insurance and reinsurance companies and growing and improving its standing in the insurance industry.
Demonstrable evidence of a how a firm has aided a re/insurance company in achieving an enviable result during a particularly challenging financial year will be looked upon favorably. -
This award recognizes the accomplishments of a financial advisory firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways; re/insurance client service levels (including targets reached), expertise in serving the needs of insurance and reinsurance companies and growing and improving its standing in the insurance industry. Demonstrable evidence of a how a firm has aided a re/insurance company in achieving an enviable result during a particularly challenging financial year will be looked upon favorably.
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This award recognizes the work of an insurance asset management firm that performed especially well in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including the adoption and employment of new strategies, overall investment performance, client-service levels, and how the firm has grown and improved its standing in the re/insurance industry.
Demonstrable evidence of a how a firm has significantly improved a client’s investment performance will be looked upon favorably. -
This award is open to law firms of all sizes providing legal services and advice to the (re)insurance sector and wider market. The winner will be a law firm driving success through appropriate advice and representation for its clients across the sector. The law firm could be speciality in its practice or have specific practices areas for the sector.
Judges will be looking for value for money, demonstrable success from advice, impact cases and testimonial evidence.
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The editorial team have awarded this honour to a person who they believe has distinguished themselves whilst making the highest contribution to the industry over the course of their working life. The winner is an individual working in – or providing services to – the P&C markets through a career that has spanned at least 20 years.
This category is not eligible for entry and will be selected by the Insurance Insider US editorial team. -
Open to buyers and sellers of risk carriers, (re)insurers and intermediaries as well as their advisers. The prize will be awarded to the merger or acquisition the judges think has made the most economic as well as strategic sense in the past 18 months, producing a value adding proposition for both parties.
As well as the deal economics and rationale, judges will be looking at how cultural issues were dealt with and how well the deal was received by markets and investors, as well as how successfully its execution has progressed posttransaction. -
This category recognizes the important role MGAs are playing in our marketplace as homes for entrepreneurial underwriters looking for independence, and as sources of new and diversifying profit streams for the carriers that back them.
Candidates will be managing general agencies that have provided an outstanding underwriting service to the P&C (re)insurance market in the past year and have brought product innovation to the markets they serve. The winner will be a company or a team which has demonstrated excellent underwriting performance in the past year, coupled with an ability to bring profitable business opportunities to its carrier backers that they would not otherwise have seen. -
This category recognizes the creative ways in which carriers and MGAs work on specific and specialist lines, producing standout products meeting market demand. The winners of this award will be a partnership entry with a program meeting the demand for a risk to be placed and the innovative methods of product development.
Judges are looking to reward a partnership which has demonstrated excellent performance in the past year, coupled with an ability to bring profitable business opportunities to its backers that they would not otherwise have seen. -
This award is open to all insurance and reinsurance intermediaries, risk carriers, agents and investors working in (re)insurance markets, as well as the trade bodies, organizations, associations and clubs that serve them.
The focus should be on programmes, events and other activities designed to encourage the recruitment and retention of talent within the business and the wider sector. This category can include but not be limited to actively improving the opportunities and openness to new talent by widening the talent pool. This can include socioeconomic, gender and background diversity.
Judges will be particularly interested in proof of the efficacy of the initiative(s), the wider positive impact across the marketplace as well as the level of innovation, creativity and originality of entries. Winners will be programmes, initiatives with real on-going results which speak to colleagues and customers across a spectrum of underrepresented characteristics in the insurance market. -
This award recognizes the work of a property catastrophe team that excelled in the past year. Entrant should demonstrate this excellence by including a firm’s comparative catastrophe losses to other reinsurers, improvements in underwriting, diversified business growth, and catastrophe response, among other factors.
The winner will be a catastrophe team that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the sector through consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding underwriting performance. -
This award recognizes a single rating agency that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate excellence in a number of ways, including the quality of its market intelligence; the ability to consistently provide fair and accurate assessments; and innovations to the ratings process, among other factors.
Demonstrable evidence of how the agency has provided dependable, original insight to the benefit of the industry will be looked upon favorably. -
Open to all regulated reinsurance intermediaries serving the P&C markets. The judges will be looking for a company that can demonstrate continued incremental business expansion and improvement in turnover, margins and profits over the previous 12 months.
Judges will look to see how management and staff have embraced change in the pursuit of these goals as well as improvement in customer service and retention. The judges will also be interested in evidence of progress in the delivery of these and the broker’s stated business goals. -
Open to all regulated retail insurance intermediaries serving the P&C markets. The judges will be looking for a team that can demonstrate continued incremental business expansion and improvement in turnover, margins and profits over the previous 12 months.
Judges will look to see how management and staff have embraced change in the pursuit of these goals as well as improvement in customer service and retention. The judges will also be interested in evidence of progress in the delivery of these and the broker’s stated business goals. -
This award recognizes the work of a catastrophe risk-modelling firm that excelled in the past year. Entrants may demonstrate this excellence in a number of ways, including precision/accuracy of the models developed, client service levels, and/or successful innovations in the science of cat risk modelling.
Demonstrable evidence of a modeler’s response to a major catastrophe and its subsequent service to clients will be considered, with a focus on where the firm has gone above and beyond typical expectations to distinguish itself in this field. -
This award honours an underwriting initiative or new product launched in the last two years that has either broken boundaries in terms of innovation and increasing the size and scope of the market, has challenged the market Context or has pushed the limit of traditional insurability. Judges may also consider entries from innovative capital structures.
The winner will be an efficiently structured, well priced and successfully executed initiative, with the recipient either the individual(s) or team(s) that designed the product or risk carrying entity or those responsible for backing and spearheading the initiative.
Judges will be particularly looking for evidence of successful take-up and profitable implementation of the initiative. Candidates will be (re)insurance underwriting teams and/or their managers.
Candidates may be working at a (re)insurance risk carrier or at an underwriting agency. -
Candidates will be an individual employed as an underwriter, aged 35 or under on 31 December 2024, and working in the P&C sector.
The winner will have already made a significant contribution to the industry and will be on a clear path to an important career in a leadership position. Candidates’ entries must be supported by their department manager. -
This award recognizes a wholesale insurance broker that excelled in the past year. Entrants should demonstrate excellence in several ways; including the breadth and depth of coverage solutions provided, financial results, client retention levels, business growth and proven ability to provide access to a variety of specialty insurance markets. Demonstrable evidence of the wholesaler’s performance in helping clients ensure a variety of hard-to-place risks will be looked upon favorably.
The winner will be a wholesale broker that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to consistent high-quality management and entrepreneurialism coupled with outstanding financial performance and client service. -
This award category is designed to celebrate the innovations and developments that the insurance market has been making to grow inclusivity for women at senior levels. It will be awarded to an organization that has put progress, representation, and inclusion at the heart of its agenda. We are looking for the best initiative(s) with demonstrable contribution to the advancement of women within the industry.
The winner of this award will have developed a range of initiatives which could include career development, gender diversity recruitment campaigns, work-life balance.
Judges will be looking for impact and influence not just on the business, but on the partners and in the wider market.
Winners will be specific initiatives and/or organizations rather than individuals. If there are leading women spearheading initiatives, judges will take this into consideration as an organizational representative.
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Judges (UK Honours)
2025 Judging Panel
Allen is located in Gallagher Re’s Dallas office, after spending eight years in New York at Willis Re. He focuses on regional Property and Casualty insurance, with a specialty on MGAs with unique and difficult classes, particularly for property in hurricane and tornado exposed territories.
Fred E. Karlinsky
Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group
Fred Karlinsky is a Shareholder and Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice Group. Fred has over 30 years of experience representing the interests of insurers, reinsurers, and a wide variety of other insurance-related entities.
Jiten Voralia is Senior Vice President, Head of North America Treaty for Everest Reinsurance. In this role, Jiten leads the division’s treaty reinsurance business across the United States, Bermuda and Canada. He joined Everest in 2022 as Senior Vice President and Head of Treaty Casualty & Surety where he successfully drove the portfolio’s strategic direction as well as the development and execution of its underwriting strategy.
Liz Kramer is the President of E&S for Munich Re Specialty, North America, Munich Re’s primary specialty insurance operation. In this role, Kramer oversees excess and surplus lines products primarily focused on the wholesale space which include Primary and Excess Casualty, Property, Financial Lines, Healthcare, Surety and Mobility.s.
Louis joined MS Reinsurance in October 2014 as Head of Latin America and was promoted to Chief Underwriting Officer, Americas in 2021. Based in Miami, Louis is responsible for all of P&C treaty underwriting across US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean markets.
Marc Adee is the CEO of Crum & Forster, a leading specialty insurance carrier founded in 1822 and headquartered in Morristown, NJ.
Marc joined Fairfax in 2000 and held a number of leadership positions throughout the organization prior to taking on his current role in 2015.
Michael McKenna is Head of North America at AXIS where he oversees underwriting and business growth strategies for the North America Wholesale and Retail businesses. Prior to joining AXIS, Michael was the Chief Underwriting Officer for Falvey Insurance Group.
Ryan Grimes serves as President of RT’s National Casualty Practice and is a Regional Director of RT Specialty. He also manages top carrier relationships for RT specialty with a focus on casualty and works with the senior management team on strategic initiatives. Ryan has been a part of RT Specialty’s leadership since 2020 when Ryan Specialty acquired All Risks Limited.
2024 Winners
2024 Winners
Insurance CEO of the Year
Stephen Sills, Bowhead
(Re)Insurer of the Year
Beazley
Broking Rising Star of the Year | in sponsorship with Markel
Charles Fisher - CRC Group
Campaign of the Year
Allianz Commercial & Earnest - Launching a Commercial Powerhouse
Casualty Underwriting Team of the Year
Jencap
Claims Rising Star of the Year
Rose Kenerson - Euclid Transactional
Distribution Innovation of the Year
bolt
Diversity & Inclusion Award
Everest - One Everest: Global DEI Strategy, Execution, and Initiatives
E&S Underwriting Team of the Year
FloodFlash - Parametric Flood
Employer of the Year
Ascot
Financial Advisory Firm of the Year
Merger & Acquisition Services, Inc.
Insurance Asset Management Firm of the Year
Conning
InsurTech Product of the Year
The Demex Group
Legal Services Provider of the Year
Greenberg Traurig
Wholesale Broker of the Year
RT Specialty
M&A Transaction of the Year
TIH
MGA/MGU of the Year
Delos Insurance
Property Catastrophe Underwriting Team of the Year
SageSure
IMCA Insurance Marketing Award
Liberty Mutual’s Camp RISE
Program Partnership of the Year
Midwestern Insurance Alliance, A K2 Insurance Services Brand & QBE
Rating Agency of the Year
AM Best
Reinsurance Broker of the Year
Guy Carpenter
Retail Broker of the Year
Acrisure
Risk Modeling Firm of the Year
Aon
Underwriting Innovation of the Year
CFC - Transaction Liability Team
Underwriting Rising Star of the Year
Kim Heessels - Euclid Transactional
Wholesale Broker of the Year
RT Specialty
Women in Insurance Award
Euclid Transactional
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