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Webinar: Peak Productivity Playbook - The Psychology of Designing Your Time & Getting More Done!

  • Tue 13 Apr 10:30 am – 11:30 am
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

Sometimes work can seem like an endless avalanche of emergencies, distractions and interruptions. Work life balance might seem like a distant promise right now. But is it possible there is an easier way?

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Webinar: Prevention over cure – mental health pandemic. What can employers do?

  • Thu 18 Mar 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Dr Philip McCrea, BHSF

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to a range of challenges for all across the globe. Increasingly, mental health issues are causing concern, with people becoming ever more isolated and fearing for their personal and professional future. The world will never be as we knew it; so adapting to the new way is increasingly important.

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Webinar: How to successfully conduct staff appraisals in the insurance industry

  • Wed 10 Mar 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

It is becoming increasingly difficult for Insurers, brokers, loss adjusters and IFA’s to recruit and retain quality staff. The reality is that at the moment the demand for qualified experienced quality staff in insurance far exceeds the availability of these staff in the marketplace.

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Webinar: Professional Indemnity insurance - an overview - ADDITIONAL SESSION

  • Thu 25 Feb 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This presentation provides an overview of Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance. It looks at the main case law underpinning the PI market, why the PI market is expanding in terms of number of policyholders needing the cover yet at the same time the capacity is decreasing.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal - THIRD SESSION

  • Mon 22 Feb 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. The appeal concluded on 19 November and the judgment was handed down on 15 January 2021. Four days were spent setting out starkly differing views between the FCA and insurers.

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Webinar: Sales processes, planning and pipeline management – ‘hope is not a strategy’

  • Thu 18 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

Research demonstrates what we know intuitively to be true – sales outcomes are significantly enhanced when we have effective, well documented and understood sales plans and processes.

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Webinar: An overview of commercial package insurance

  • Wed 17 Feb 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This webinar will provide a practical look into the various sections of a typical commercial package insurance policy, what is covered and what protection a commercial customer actually obtains, so that brokers, underwriters and claims staff alike can be confident when explaining the different sections of cover.

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Webinar: Broker Trading Strategies and Skills in a Hard Market

  • Thu 11 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

We are experiencing the first hard market for many years; a generation of Brokers, Insurers and Clients have never worked in a hard market.

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Webinar: How To Prevent Burnout & Promote Thriving

  • Wed 10 Feb 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

Burnout and overload an extreme but understandable response to our radically changing workplace. It can include mental, emotional and physical elements.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal - ADDITIONAL SESSION

  • Mon 08 Feb 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. The appeal concluded on 19 November and the judgment was handed down on 15 January 2021. Four days were spent setting out starkly differing views between the FCA and insurers.

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Webinar: Telephone Sales and Communication Skills

  • Thu 04 Feb 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    • Nick Thomas, Nick Thomas & Associates

In the remote working and remote trading world we now live in, telephone skills have become even more important both in sales and account management.

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Webinar: Water damage - the basics

  • Wed 03 Feb 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Andrew Vincent, Polygon

The webinar will cover the basics of the survey process; How to mitigate the damage; how to measure moisture and various drying techniques.

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Webinar: Delegating For Virtual Leaders

  • Tue 02 Feb 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Andy Currie, Think Distinct

How you allocate and follow up work as a leader has always been important, but for leaders that work remotely, effective delegation is even more important.

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Webinar: Professional Indemnity insurance - an overview

  • Fri 29 Jan 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

This presentation provides an overview of Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance. It looks at the main case law underpinning the PI market, why the PI market is expanding in terms of number of policyholders needing the cover yet at the same time the capacity is decreasing.

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Webinar: FCA Business Interruption Insurance Test Case – Supreme Court Appeal

  • Wed 27 Jan 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Branko Bjelobaba

This comprehensive and interactive one-hour webinar will focus on the judgment of the Supreme Court following the appeal of the FCA’s ground-breaking test case at the High Court. It is relevant to general insurance brokers/intermediaries, their insurers, and any other market participants

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Webinar: The Fundamentals of Fire Investigation

  • Tue 19 Jan 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    • Daniel Brown, Rimkus Consulting Ltd

Establishing the cause of a fire and particularly if it was suspected to be a criminal act such as arson has always been a key part of property and business interruption claims.

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Webinar: The importance of setting correct BI sums insured in a post-Covid world

  • Thu 07 Jan 10:00 am – 11:00 am
    • Alan Chandler

Two lockdowns and massive drops in customer numbers will mean the 2020 book of accounts for most businesses will have absolutely no reflection of the true earning capacity of that enterprise. So how do clients go about setting a correct Business interruption sums insured for the forthcoming period of insurance?

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Webinar: The insurance implications of Brexit

  • Tue 15 Dec 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    • Alan Chandler

Despite dominating much of press coverage for many years, due to the occurrence of Covid-19 around the globe Brexit is now getting far less press coverage, and there is a danger the insurance industry could slip into 2021 without fully considering the impact of Brexit.

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Festive Speed Networking - Online!

  • Fri 11 Dec 12:45 pm – 2:30 pm

It's time to find your best Christmas Jumper (some people have more than one), put it on and come along for some Festive Speed Networking! Organised by the BII Young Professionals' team.

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WEBINAR: The negative Ogden rate - Why existing limits of indemnity on EL/PL and Products can no longer remain the same - EXTRA SESSION

  • Thu 10 Dec 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Zoom - Webinar
    • Alan Chandler

Brokers/Insurance company staff if you do not understand the long-term implications of a negative Ogden in the market place then you will be failing your clients – this presentation will help you understand why Parliament’s decision to create and stick with a negative Ogden rate has an impact on ALL major liability injury claims. Even the traditional EL limit of £10m is now looking too small let alone PL limits of £2m.

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