Ablett lays out ambitious growth plans for FirstAssist

Tim Ablett hopes to grow his healthcare company from £300m premium income to more than £500m, and e...

Tim Ablett hopes to grow his healthcare company from £300m premium
income to more than £500m, and expects the majority of this growth to come
from brokers.


Mr Ablett and nine other company directors paid £147m for Royal &
SunAlliance's healthcare and assistance business, now renamed FirstAssist.
Mr Ablett said 90% of the company's income currently comes from specialist
brokers but he hopes to encourage more commercial brokers to get involved
in future.


"We have no intention of going direct," said Mr

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