About

Insurance Expertise and Insight

Taylor Ward has many years of experience in placing insurance solutions for our clients.

We pride ourselves on our ability to provide insightful and effective advice. Our long-standing relationships within the industry allow us to provide a hands-on approach to ensure a service that is tailored to each client’s unique needs.

Tailored Insurance Solutions

Our clients choose Taylor Ward for a range of reasons:

  • Guiding new Lloyds Coverholders: for those dealing with Lloyd’s for the first time, we support clients throughout the application process, sourcing capacity and securing Binding Authority contracts, for when they are approved by Lloyd’s.
  • Enhancing existing Coverholders: existing Coverholders seeking new capacity or aiming to expand their portfolios. We can support with seeking capacity for higher limits, increased coverage and other enhancements to complement a client’s existing offering.
  • Strategic business expansion: Coverholders seeking to diversify, we provide strategic advice on the addition of new classes of business which sit alongside their existing business and the products they offer to their brokers.
  • Facilitation of reinsurance contracts: we can place reinsurance contracts into the London reinsurance market for clients when required.

Our Track Record

At Taylor Ward we take pride in our clients’ success. Some of our clients have been with us for over 20 years: testament to the confidence and trust they put in our team.

We currently place over A$45,000,000 in Gross Written Premium into the Lloyd’s market per annum.

Our Specialist Classes of Business

The areas we specialise in are generally considered ‘non-marine’:

  • Professional Indemnity
  • General Liability
  • Legal Expenses
  • Financial Institutions
  • Travel Insurance
  • Mid and High Net Worth Household
  • Property
  • Fine Art and Specie
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Commercial Combined Policies

Meet Our Team

Ollie Bevan-Thomas

Managing Director

With over 25 year’s experience in the Insurance industry, predominantly in the City of London, Ollie enjoys a trusted and close collaboration with various syndicates operating within Lloyd’s of London. His experience extends globally, having spent over 5 years living and working in Australia. There, he not only established an office for a major international insurance broker, but also successfully launched three Managing General Agencies (MGAs).

Ollie provides support to clients across numerous geographical locations.

Contact Ollie for all new business enquiries

Katie Dowling

Director

Katie has over 20 years of experience in financial marketing and recruitment working with board level, senior management and executives globally.

Contact Katie for all regulatory, compliance and marketing enquiries