In-depth: How do you solve a problem like professional liability?

Edward Murray investigates how brokers can make inroads into the static, soft, and difficult to break into professional liability market.

Insurers are under pressure to remain relevant in the professional liability market where there has been little wholesale change for the past decade and rates in most professions remain stubbornly soft.

Throwing down the gauntlet to the market, Grant Clemence, head of professional and financial lines at QBE, says: "The big question for insurers is how we innovate enough to remain relevant.

"We are still selling the same things we were 10 years ago and hoping everyone comes round to our way of