Blog: Why the BI ruling offers brokers the perfect opportunity to show their mettle

Following the Supreme Court business interruption ruling last week, Jonathan Swift argues brokers need not join their insurer partners in suffering Murder By the Orient Express, but instead play an important role in helping policyholders understand what happens next.

A lot has already been written about how the self-inflicted PR disaster that was the business interruption legal action could have been avoided.

But what’s done is done.

And now the Supreme Court has spoken the big question for many insurance brokers is what does the judgement mean for the intermediary sector going forward? Especially given the media coverage of the Financial Conduct Authority test case has broadly heaped the entire insurance market: insurers, managing general agents, brokers