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2024 Birmingham Insurance Institute Dinner - SOLD OUT
Following the success of our dinner earlier this year next year’s dinner will be returning to the Grand Hotel on Thursday 29th of February 2024. Tickets for the dinner are now SOLD OUT.
View event detailsWhere are we now? Covid-19 business interruption insurance and the latest case law.
Covid-19 business interruption insurance claims continue to occupy the Courts’ time with a series of judgments handed down in late 2023 and early 2024 dealing with issues of policy trigger, claims adjustment and aggregation of claims. The principles established in these claims have application to business interruption more generally and indeed more broadly across all lines of insurance. In this webinar, we will provide an overview of significant matters and examine the most recent Covid-related case law and its impact on the insurance industry.
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Demystifying the Appointed Representative, Directly Authorised and RI routes for advisers and regulated firms
The start of a new year can for many people be the catalyst for a change in their career, is this you? Making informed decisions, based on accurate information, is crucial to your career, your business and your clients. Being in the right place for you will enable you to thrive. There are many options available, and unfortunately there is also a lot of misinformation. This webinar will explain and more importantly demystify these options for you, giving you accurate and informative information for you to make possibly the most important decision at this point in your career.
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Recovering from a flood
We're delighted to offer our members a face-to-face lecture focusing on recovering from a flood. The expert team at QuestGates will take us through a claim scenario, looking at a time line of events from day one of the flood, what cover is available under Commercial and Household policies, and what can be done to restore the property in addition to building back better for future flood resilience. Registration for the event is from 4pm where tea and coffee will be served prior to the lecture beginning at 4:30pm.
View event detailsAssertiveness Skills: Say what you want, say what you mean
Many people are worried about being assertive: they believe they are coming across as aggressive. Yet everyone has the right to express their needs. Being assertive is an essential skill for anyone. Developing excellent assertiveness skills makes you a better colleague, team player and human being
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Cert CII Online Insurance Examination Training
The Birmingham Insurance Institute (BII) has joined with other Local Institutes of the CII to offer our members online examination training. If you are interested, you need to act quickly. The training for Certificate in Insurance (Cert CII) starts on 8 January and will be run over 9 sessions each lasting 3 hours until March 2024. There is a Broker and Insurer pathway for candidates to choose on a first come first served basis, subject to validating BII membership status. Training will be on-line, given by professional independent trainers experienced in CII examination training
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FCA GI Consumer Duty and Multi-Occupancy Update
We will also cover the new rules that will be effective from 1 January 2024 on multi-occupancy insurances following intervention by the government – these new rules will impact 5 million leaseholders. Leaseholders will be defined as customers and firms will have to act in their best interests and no commission sharing will be allowed with PMAs unless clear value to the leaseholder is evidenced. Insurers and brokers will also need to provide more information about policies to leaseholders, including detail of all remuneration.
View event detailsBII Charity Pub Quiz
The moment you've all been waiting for.... The BII Pub Quiz is back, hosted by our Young Professionals to raise money for our President's chosen charity, Sepsis UK. This will be popular, so get your teams together and book today!
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Global threats facing the insurance industry
What are the global threats facing the insurance industry right now and how are these impacting UK insurers and brokers? This will be an interactive and wide-ranging talk and those attending will be actively encouraged to contribute with their own experiences. We will look at the differences in responses between insurers and brokers with brokers considering business conduct more of a concern than insurers. This will be followed by a chance to network with industry colleagues, with drinks and snacks provided.
View event detailsWebinar: The Power of Questions
‘The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.’ Claude Levi-Strauss. Asking the right questions of ourselves, as much as of others, is one of the keys to success in our business and personal lives.
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Clyde & Co Webinar: Restrictive covenants: how to maximise protection of an employer’s business interests
Clyde & Co Webinar: Restrictive covenants: how to maximise protection of an employer’s business interests Learning Objectives: • Understanding restrictive covenants and their purpose • Understanding of the limitations of restrictive covenants • Understand how to enforce restrictive covenants
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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence at work - and how to build it
This session delivered by Jacqui Turner and Nick Thomas explains an Emotional Intelligence Model as developed by Peter Salovey and John Mayer The session will explore the importance of Emotional intelligence by outlining the many benefits to employees, prospects, customers, and organisations. During the session we will explore common workplace situations that can trigger negative emotions and share effective techniques for effectively managing a variety of emotions such as frustration, disappointment, and nervousness. Finally, we will look at the importance of empathy, as a key EI skill and explain how to be empathetic, in a sincere way, with colleagues and customers.
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InsurED PFS & CII Education Conference 2023
Nottingham Insurance Institute's renowned InsurED Education Conference and Financial Planning Day is back for 2023 - and we're pleased to return to a face-to-face event.
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Insuring non-tangible assets
In the modern business world, many businesses have valuable but non-tangible assets. Purchasing adequate insurance for such assets can be difficult. This session looks at the main types of intangible assets and the current insurance position for these.
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Emerging Risks Webinar
This session on Emerging Risks looks at some of the issues that are changing the insurance industry – in terms of ways of working, and new insurance solutions being developed.
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Personal injury Discount Rate: An update in anticipation of the 2024 statutory review
• The government is obliged to undertake a formal review of the PIDR within 5 years of the last review. The next formal review of the current statutory rate, under the Civil Liability Act (CLA) 2018 must begin by Summer 2024. • The setting of the PIDR will have material implications for the value of future losses and total claims costs and so the approach to be taken and the methodology adopted will be of utmost importance to underwriters and claims managers.
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Leading on Organisational Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered what makes a good organisational workplace wellbeing strategy? This powerful 1-hour webinar explores the fundamentals of organisational wellbeing, giving you tools and information which will inspire you to be part of the workplace wellbeing conversation in your own organisation.
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Understand the security lapses that led to a Business Email Compromise
Join us as we explore a real life case of a law firm that was comprised in email fraud leading to a large financial loss.
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