Alan Boswell

Alan Boswell Group was established in 1982 by Alan Boswell, growing from a single office to become one of the largest independent insurance brokers and financial planning groups in the United Kingdom. The firm has over 40 years of experience in providing advice to businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Norwich, the company operates across seven or eight offices located throughout East Anglia, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire. The group serves over 70,000 clients and employs more than 420 or 450 staff members.

The company offers a comprehensive range of insurance solutions, acting as an independent insurance broker. Its services encompass both personal and commercial insurance lines. Personal insurance options include home, motor, boat, travel, high-value home, tenants contents, provisional driver, short-term motor, classic car, motorhome, yacht, motorboat, classic broads boat, broads boat, and dinghy insurance. For businesses, the firm provides commercial insurance designed to manage and control the impact of losses from normal business activities, alongside specific coverages such as property insurance, directors' and officers' cover, liabilities, professional indemnity insurance, business interruption, computer insurance, cyber liability, business travel, office and surgery insurance, health and associated services, credit insurance, farm insurance, and self-drive hire insurance.

Beyond insurance, Alan Boswell Group delivers financial planning, wealth management, and risk management services. The financial planning teams offer ongoing advice and support for a range of employee benefits for businesses, including group critical illness insurance, death in service insurance, workplace pensions, flexible benefits, group income protection, business healthcare plans, health and wellbeing plans, health cash plans, health screening, and group private medical insurance. For individuals, personal finance experts provide guidance on savings and investments, retirement income solutions, personal pensions, retirement planning, financial advice for widows and widowers, private healthcare insurance, and protection products such as critical illness cover, income protection insurance, life insurance, and personal accident and sickness cover. The firm's risk management services include engineering inspections, health & safety consultation, and health & safety training, including NEBOSH training courses.

Alan Boswell Group possesses experience relevant to the UK PBSA sector through its landlord insurance and student contents insurance offerings. The firm has provided specialist landlord and property owner cover since 1982. Landlord insurance policies can include landlord building insurance, landlord legal expenses insurance, commercial landlord insurance, landlord liability insurance, and excess protection insurance. These policies typically cover malicious damage and offer 90 days' unoccupancy cover as standard.

For students, the company provides student contents insurance, which protects personal belongings within student accommodation against risks such as theft, damage, or loss. This coverage extends to liability for damage caused by negligence and can include optional cover for accidental damage to laptops, computers, and pedal cycles. A key feature of student contents insurance is the inclusion of cover for landlords' fixtures and fittings for which a student may be responsible, aiming to help protect their deposit. The policy also offers new for old cover for personal belongings, accidental damage for computer, audio, and visual equipment, and cover for contents in the garden and theft from outbuildings.

The firm's approach is rooted in its independence, which allows it to provide unbiased advice and source products from various insurers. This independence enables the company to compare policies, cover, and prices on behalf of its clients. Alan Boswell Group also offers a portfolio of added-value services, including underwriting, claims handling, and loss assessment. The company maintains in-house claims teams to assist clients throughout the claims process, aiming for efficient resolution.