Markel and Acturis

Markel on Acturis

To empower you to grow your business, we're building a digital trading experience that mirrors our open market proposition, with the same expert underwriting, broader appetite, and award-winning support.

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To empower you to grow your business, we're building a digital trading experience that mirrors our open market proposition, with the same expert underwriting, broader appetite, and award-winning support.

eTrade Markel's five-star rated products on Acturis

Our market-leading Professional Indemnity Combined and Contractors Combined products are available on Acturis, alongside Legal Expenses and Cyber Insurance – both available as add-ons to provide your SME clients with complete protection. Our products are packaged with our award-winning benefits proposition and backed by our five-star service and support.

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What can I eTrade with Markel on Acturis?

Professional Indemnity Combined is our flagship digital product, showing one of the highest quote conversion rates on Acturis and continuing to trend positively in competitiveness. It gives you wide risk appetite and dynamic, constantly reviewed pricing with attractive commission levels.

Specialist professional indemnity cover

Take out PI cover with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Convenient all-in-one cover – incorporate all the client's other insurance needs, including D&O, Cyber, Property, EL/PL and Contents
  • Complimentary legal expenses insurance – with upgrade options including additional covers and higher indemnity levels
  • Value-added extras to support SMEs – including 24/7 legal and tax helplines, risk prevention and mitigation support and more

Our target appetite for Professional Indemnity combined:

  • Commercial TV – media space purchased
  • Commercial TV – production of adverts
  • Corporate identity work
  • Design and creative consultancy
  • Event/conference organisation
  • Exhibition design/management (no construction)
  • Graphic design
  • Market research
  • Multimedia consultancy
  • Other media – media space purchased
  • Other media – production of adverts
  • Photography
  • Public relations
  • Website design
  • Auctioneering – property
  • Energy performance certificates
  • Estate agency – residential/commercial
  • Expert witness
  • Letting agency – residential/commercial
  • Project co-ordination
  • Project management
  • Property management – residential/commercial
  • Quantity surveying
  • Rating/rent review – residential/commercial
  • Architecture - New build/structural refurbishment
  • Architecture - Non-structural refurbishment
  • Building services (electrical, plumbing, HVAC)
  • Building surveys non-structural / land surveys
  • Electrical engineering
  • Feasibility studies/expert witness work
  • Heating and ventilation engineering
  • Interior design
  • Landscape/garden architecture
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Planning supervisory/CDM activities
  • Project co-ordination
  • Project management
  • Quantity surveying
  • Town planning
  • Accident investigation services
  • Administration
  • Audit / company tax / accountancy - other
  • Bookkeepers
  • Careers advisory service
  • Compliance consultant
  • Counselling/advice centre
  • Education
  • First aid trainer
  • Health & safety consultancy
  • Human resource/personnel management
  • Interpreter
  • Marketing/sales
  • Recruitment consultancy
  • Training
  • Audit / company tax / accountancy - unquoted companies
  • Book keeping / wageroll
  • Company secretarial / registrar
  • Computer consultancy
  • Directorship
  • Executorship and trusteeship
  • Management consultancy
  • Personal tax
  • Taxation consultancy

One of the only digitally enabled Contractors Combined products, purposely designed to meet the needs and demands of construction businesses, Contractors Combined insurance provides cover for your SMEs, such as builders, finishing trades, and electrical contractors. Backed by 50 years' experience in the construction industry, this product builds in Professional Indemnity to save you time by removing the need for multiple quotes.

Specialist construction cover

Take out Contractors Combined insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • One product, one price – quote for Employers' Liability, Public and Product Liability and Professional Indemnity at the same time
  • Collateral warranty as standard – Markel Law reviews subcontractor contracts and places them all under one warranty, saving your clients solicitor fees
  • IR35 tax legislation as standard – help clients stay on the right side of the regulations with a Markel Tax review of their tax exposure to IR35
  • Construction wellbeing support – available around the clock to help them face the demands of this challenging sector

Our target appetite for Contractors Combined:

  • Building Contracting (Below £10m) & General Building Maintenance
  • Commercial new, PDH new, alterations and extensions, general
  • Domestic Shed, Garage & Carport Erectors
  • House Builders, Housing Developers & Property Developers
  • Loft Converters & Conservatory Installation
  • Bathroom Installation (General, Domestic/Small Commercial, Fitted & Repair)
  • Carpet Fitting
  • Decorating, Painting (General & Commercial), Painter & Decorator
  • Floor, Ceiling & Wall Tilers (All Tiling Trades)
  • Joinery / Carpentry & Joinery
  • Kitchen & Fitted Furniture Installation
  • Office & Shop Fitters
  • Plastering & Artexing Contractors
  • Plumbing & Heating Engineers (General & Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Plumbing (Domestic/Small Commercial) & Plumbers
  • Air Conditioning & Ventilation (Install, Service & Repair – All Sizes)
  • Alarm, CCTV, Lighting & Cable TV Installation (Inc./Ex. Cable Laying)
  • Central Heating Installation, Service & Repair (Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Domestic/small commercial and large commercial
  • Ductwork Installation
  • Electrical Appliance Servicing & Repair
  • Gas Fitting (General & Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Heating Engineers, Heating Services & Heating/Ventilation Contractors
  • Solar Panel Installation & Repairs
  • Bricklaying & Dry Stone Wall Construction/Repair
  • Curtain & Blind Installation
  • Drive, Paving, Patio & Path Laying (Excluding Asphalt)
  • Fencing & Hoarding Contractors, Including Wood Fence Installation
  • Mastic Sealant Contractors (Internal)
  • Partition, Ceiling & Dry Lining Contractors
  • Sign Erectors & Sign/Poster Maintenance Contractors (Below 10m)
  • Drive & Paving Contractors
  • Glaziers / Double Glazing Installation, Service & Repair
  • Landscape Gardeners, Garden Services & General Gardeners
  • Sports Surface Installation, Service & Repair
  • Furniture Removal
  • Hardware, Engineering & Plumbing Services Suppliers
  • Roll Shutter Door Installation
  • Sign Erectors & Sign Maintenance Contractors
  • Sound Equipment Installation

As a leading supplier of legal expenses insurance, we understand that legal disputes can be catastrophic for professionals and businesses alike. With over 25 years of supplying legal expenses insurance to the SME, commercial mid-corporate, and corporate market, we provide the complete solution to your clients' legal needs.

Specialist legal expenses cover

Take out legal expenses insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Expert legal advice – over 50 in-house lawyers and barristers on hand to offer the expert advice your clients need, when they need it
  • Excellent coverage – from employment disputes to tax protection and criminal defence, our insurance covers a huge range of common legal issues
  • A preventative approach – expert legal advice saves them time and resources
  • Value-added benefits – for even more value, they'll get access to online resources and services to support them in their day-to-day operations, including solicitor-written templates and a business and legal helpline

Our Charities Combined product is the only digitally enabled specialist insurance product for the charities and community group sector available on Acturis. Charities Combined from Markel offers tailored protection, traded digitally and built for evolving needs. Organisations can shape their policy by selecting from distinct sections to match their unique requirements. All covers are managed through a single proposal form, simplifying the process. Modules can be easily added or removed as requirements change, ensuring the right level of cover stays within budget. With core covers included as standard and optional covers available as needs evolve, our modular policy delivers flexible, transparent, and robust protection that's free from coverage gaps.

Specialist charities cover

Take out Charities Combined insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Built for evolving needs – our best-in-class modular cover means organisations can easily add and remove what they need as requirements change
  • Beyond insurance – offering your clients a suite of value-added services built for their sector specialist needs
  • One of the UK's leading care insurers – we provide 5-star claims to over 15,000 policyholders, with 30+ years of dedicated sector service
  • Trade how you prefer – Charities Combined can be traded both manually and digitally, and the method you choose will not be restricted by turnover or premium thresholds

Our target appetite for Charities Combined:

  • Advice Centre
  • Advocacy Groups
  • Bereavement Counselling
  • Career Consultancy
  • Careers Advisory Service
  • Counselling / Advice Centre
  • Homelessness Support Provider
  • Human Rights Organisation
  • Marriage Guidance
  • Mediator
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Reiki Healing
  • Speech Therapy
  • Youth Counselling Service
  • Community Garden
  • Community Centre
  • Conference Centres
  • Village Hall
  • Amateur Dramatic Society
  • Arts & Craft Workshop
  • Café (ex Deep Fat Frying)
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Charity
  • Charity Shop
  • Community Action Group
  • Community Association
  • Day Centre
  • Drama School
  • Fetes Organiser
  • Girl Guide Group
  • Performing Arts
  • Special Interest Club (Non Hazardous)
  • Theatre
  • Voluntary Organisation
  • Amateur Dramatic Society
  • Arts & Craft Workshop
  • Drama School
  • Performing Arts
  • Theatre
  • Fetes Organiser
  • After School Clubs
  • Crèche
  • Kindergartens
  • Nursery
  • Nursery School
  • Playschools
  • Sessional Child Day Care
  • Adult Education Centres
  • Business Training
  • Computer Training Schools / Services
  • First Aid Trainer
  • Management Training
  • Music School
  • Out Of School Care
  • Training Advisory Service
  • Training Board
  • Tuition
  • Youth Clubs
  • Youth Organisation
  • Parent and Baby Groups
  • Playgroups
  • Dance Instruction
  • Dancing Schools
  • Yoga Instructing
  • Aerobic Instructing
  • Amateur Cricket Club
  • Amateur Football Club
  • Angling Club
  • Athletics Club
  • Badminton Club
  • Basketball Club
  • Bowling Club
  • Netball Club
  • Squash Club
  • Tennis Club
  • Volleyball Club
  • Language Schools
  • Benevolent Fund Management
  • Professional Association
  • Trade Association

Professional Indemnity Combined is our flagship digital product, showing one of the highest quote conversion rates on Acturis and continuing to trend positively in competitiveness. It gives you wide risk appetite and dynamic, constantly reviewed pricing with attractive commission levels.

Specialist professional indemnity cover

Take out PI cover with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Convenient all-in-one cover – incorporate all the client's other insurance needs, including D&O, Cyber, Property, EL/PL and Contents
  • Complimentary legal expenses insurance – with upgrade options including additional covers and higher indemnity levels
  • Value-added extras to support SMEs – including 24/7 legal and tax helplines, risk prevention and mitigation support and more

Our target appetite for Professional Indemnity combined:

  • Commercial TV – media space purchased
  • Commercial TV – production of adverts
  • Corporate identity work
  • Design and creative consultancy
  • Event/conference organisation
  • Exhibition design/management (no construction)
  • Graphic design
  • Market research
  • Multimedia consultancy
  • Other media – media space purchased
  • Other media – production of adverts
  • Photography
  • Public relations
  • Website design
  • Auctioneering – property
  • Energy performance certificates
  • Estate agency – residential/commercial
  • Expert witness
  • Letting agency – residential/commercial
  • Project co-ordination
  • Project management
  • Property management – residential/commercial
  • Quantity surveying
  • Rating/rent review – residential/commercial
  • Architecture - New build/structural refurbishment
  • Architecture - Non-structural refurbishment
  • Building services (electrical, plumbing, HVAC)
  • Building surveys non-structural / land surveys
  • Electrical engineering
  • Feasibility studies/expert witness work
  • Heating and ventilation engineering
  • Interior design
  • Landscape/garden architecture
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Planning supervisory/CDM activities
  • Project co-ordination
  • Project management
  • Quantity surveying
  • Town planning
  • Accident investigation services
  • Administration
  • Audit / company tax / accountancy - other
  • Bookkeepers
  • Careers advisory service
  • Compliance consultant
  • Counselling/advice centre
  • Education
  • First aid trainer
  • Health & safety consultancy
  • Human resource/personnel management
  • Interpreter
  • Marketing/sales
  • Recruitment consultancy
  • Training
  • Audit / company tax / accountancy - unquoted companies
  • Book keeping / wageroll
  • Company secretarial / registrar
  • Computer consultancy
  • Directorship
  • Executorship and trusteeship
  • Management consultancy
  • Personal tax
  • Taxation consultancy

One of the only digitally enabled Contractors Combined products, purposely designed to meet the needs and demands of construction businesses, Contractors Combined insurance provides cover for your SMEs, such as builders, finishing trades, and electrical contractors. Backed by 50 years' experience in the construction industry, this product builds in Professional Indemnity to save you time by removing the need for multiple quotes.

Specialist construction cover

Take out Contractors Combined insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • One product, one price – quote for Employers' Liability, Public and Product Liability and Professional Indemnity at the same time
  • Collateral warranty as standard – Markel Law reviews subcontractor contracts and places them all under one warranty, saving your clients solicitor fees
  • IR35 tax legislation as standard – help clients stay on the right side of the regulations with a Markel Tax review of their tax exposure to IR35
  • Construction wellbeing support – available around the clock to help them face the demands of this challenging sector

Our target appetite for Contractors Combined:

  • Building Contracting (Below £10m) & General Building Maintenance
  • Commercial new, PDH new, alterations and extensions, general
  • Domestic Shed, Garage & Carport Erectors
  • House Builders, Housing Developers & Property Developers
  • Loft Converters & Conservatory Installation
  • Bathroom Installation (General, Domestic/Small Commercial, Fitted & Repair)
  • Carpet Fitting
  • Decorating, Painting (General & Commercial), Painter & Decorator
  • Floor, Ceiling & Wall Tilers (All Tiling Trades)
  • Joinery / Carpentry & Joinery
  • Kitchen & Fitted Furniture Installation
  • Office & Shop Fitters
  • Plastering & Artexing Contractors
  • Plumbing & Heating Engineers (General & Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Plumbing (Domestic/Small Commercial) & Plumbers
  • Air Conditioning & Ventilation (Install, Service & Repair – All Sizes)
  • Alarm, CCTV, Lighting & Cable TV Installation (Inc./Ex. Cable Laying)
  • Central Heating Installation, Service & Repair (Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Domestic/small commercial and large commercial
  • Ductwork Installation
  • Electrical Appliance Servicing & Repair
  • Gas Fitting (General & Domestic/Small Commercial)
  • Heating Engineers, Heating Services & Heating/Ventilation Contractors
  • Solar Panel Installation & Repairs
  • Bricklaying & Dry Stone Wall Construction/Repair
  • Curtain & Blind Installation
  • Drive, Paving, Patio & Path Laying (Excluding Asphalt)
  • Fencing & Hoarding Contractors, Including Wood Fence Installation
  • Mastic Sealant Contractors (Internal)
  • Partition, Ceiling & Dry Lining Contractors
  • Sign Erectors & Sign/Poster Maintenance Contractors (Below 10m)
  • Drive & Paving Contractors
  • Glaziers / Double Glazing Installation, Service & Repair
  • Landscape Gardeners, Garden Services & General Gardeners
  • Sports Surface Installation, Service & Repair
  • Furniture Removal
  • Hardware, Engineering & Plumbing Services Suppliers
  • Roll Shutter Door Installation
  • Sign Erectors & Sign Maintenance Contractors
  • Sound Equipment Installation

As a leading supplier of legal expenses insurance, we understand that legal disputes can be catastrophic for professionals and businesses alike. With over 25 years of supplying legal expenses insurance to the SME, commercial mid-corporate, and corporate market, we provide the complete solution to your clients' legal needs.

Specialist legal expenses cover

Take out legal expenses insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Expert legal advice – over 50 in-house lawyers and barristers on hand to offer the expert advice your clients need, when they need it
  • Excellent coverage – from employment disputes to tax protection and criminal defence, our insurance covers a huge range of common legal issues
  • A preventative approach – expert legal advice saves them time and resources
  • Value-added benefits – for even more value, they'll get access to online resources and services to support them in their day-to-day operations, including solicitor-written templates and a business and legal helpline

Our Charities Combined product is the only digitally enabled specialist insurance product for the charities and community group sector available on Acturis. Charities Combined from Markel offers tailored protection, traded digitally and built for evolving needs. Organisations can shape their policy by selecting from distinct sections to match their unique requirements. All covers are managed through a single proposal form, simplifying the process. Modules can be easily added or removed as requirements change, ensuring the right level of cover stays within budget. With core covers included as standard and optional covers available as needs evolve, our modular policy delivers flexible, transparent, and robust protection that's free from coverage gaps.

Specialist charities cover

Take out Charities Combined insurance with us and your clients can look forward to:

  • Built for evolving needs – our best-in-class modular cover means organisations can easily add and remove what they need as requirements change
  • Beyond insurance – offering your clients a suite of value-added services built for their sector specialist needs
  • One of the UK's leading care insurers – we provide 5-star claims to over 15,000 policyholders, with 30+ years of dedicated sector service
  • Trade how you prefer – Charities Combined can be traded both manually and digitally, and the method you choose will not be restricted by turnover or premium thresholds

Our target appetite for Charities Combined:

  • Advice Centre
  • Advocacy Groups
  • Bereavement Counselling
  • Career Consultancy
  • Careers Advisory Service
  • Counselling / Advice Centre
  • Homelessness Support Provider
  • Human Rights Organisation
  • Marriage Guidance
  • Mediator
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Reiki Healing
  • Speech Therapy
  • Youth Counselling Service
  • Community Garden
  • Community Centre
  • Conference Centres
  • Village Hall
  • Amateur Dramatic Society
  • Arts & Craft Workshop
  • Café (ex Deep Fat Frying)
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Charity
  • Charity Shop
  • Community Action Group
  • Community Association
  • Day Centre
  • Drama School
  • Fetes Organiser
  • Girl Guide Group
  • Performing Arts
  • Special Interest Club (Non Hazardous)
  • Theatre
  • Voluntary Organisation
  • Amateur Dramatic Society
  • Arts & Craft Workshop
  • Drama School
  • Performing Arts
  • Theatre
  • Fetes Organiser
  • After School Clubs
  • Crèche
  • Kindergartens
  • Nursery
  • Nursery School
  • Playschools
  • Sessional Child Day Care
  • Adult Education Centres
  • Business Training
  • Computer Training Schools / Services
  • First Aid Trainer
  • Management Training
  • Music School
  • Out Of School Care
  • Training Advisory Service
  • Training Board
  • Tuition
  • Youth Clubs
  • Youth Organisation
  • Parent and Baby Groups
  • Playgroups
  • Dance Instruction
  • Dancing Schools
  • Yoga Instructing
  • Aerobic Instructing
  • Amateur Cricket Club
  • Amateur Football Club
  • Angling Club
  • Athletics Club
  • Badminton Club
  • Basketball Club
  • Bowling Club
  • Netball Club
  • Squash Club
  • Tennis Club
  • Volleyball Club
  • Language Schools
  • Benevolent Fund Management
  • Professional Association
  • Trade Association

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