Our businesses

Welcome to a whistle stop tour of all the businesses that form PIB Group. If you’re a new or existing customer looking for support on a product or service, please contact one of our friendly advisors through the websites below.

Specialist commercial lines brokers

PIB Insurance Brokers

PIB Insurance Brokers is a dynamic insurance broker attracting individuals with a wealth of experience in the insurance market. The business provides expertise across a broad range of specialisms including professions, property, construction, transportation, trade credit, real estate, leisure, construction, haulage and charities.

Associated brands

PIB Risk Management

PIB Risk Management brings years of experience and expertise together to form a truly unique business which focuses on providing simple, creative and effective solutions to risk management. Services include business continuity planning, health and safety consultancy, fire risk assessment as well as an online risk management solution.

Cooper Solutions

The Cooper Solutions portfolio of online solutions include fleet management with daily rate insurance cover, performance forecasting and financial management, used car stock management, electronic appraisal, and online trade vehicle auction.

Channel insurance Brokers

‘CIB’ is based in Guernsey providing insurance services for more than 30 years. It is one of the leading Channel Islands general insurance brokers and the team looks after a broad portfolio of clients across Guernsey, Alderney, Jersey and Sark.

CMR insurance services

CMR Insurance Services is a trade credit insurance specialist, offering tailored solutions and extensive support to businesses from start-ups to major enterprises across Britain. They provide a safeguard for businesses to mitigate risks when trading on credit and help to ensure that businesses remain profitable even during financial uncertainty.

Schemes

Thistle Insurance Services

Thistle Insurance Services has a wealth of experience and expertise in niche and specialist insurance sectors, with a focus on leisure and lifestyle commercial professional risks markets. It creates, distributes and manages non-brokered niche products for these markets, delivering to consumers and SMEs under the ‘Guard’ brands.

Fish Insurance

Fish is a provider of specialist insurance in the UK for people with pre-existing medical conditions, disabilities or mobility issues. Fish also provides insurance cover for wheelchairs, mobility scooters, inhome products such as stair lifts and hoists as well as cover for wheelchair accessible vehicles.

Morton Michel

Morton Michel is the UK’s leading childcare insurance specialist, offering a range of insurance policies for childminders and nannies as well as nurseries, pre-schools, out of school clubs and other groups connected with childcare.

Barbon Insurance Services

The Barbon Insurance Group is established through; HomeLet, Let Alliance, Legal For Lettings and UKinsuranceNET - combining over 30 years of expertise. HomeLet and Let Alliance provide market-leading referencing services and insurance solutions to the UK’s private rental sector. Driven by a team of experienced legal professionals, Legal For Lettings specialises in resolving disputes between landlords and their tenants. And UKinsuranceNET delivers niche insurance solutions tailored to landlords. 

Employee Benefits

PIB Employee Benefits

Our employee benefits consultants adopt an approach of supporting organisations across all areas of financial and non-financial rewards that meet the needs of a business and its employees. This includes healthcare, corporate pensions, risk, employee benefit communications and employee benefits technology.

Underwriting

Q Underwriting

Q Underwriting was created from multiple underwriting brands with extensive history in their chosen niches. Q Underwriting provides 30+ niche commercial lines products – all backed by A rated insurers. Specialisms include construction, tradesmen and liability; charities, faith and recruitment; public and private hire, fleet and motor trade; and non-standard and unoccupied property. All our products are underwritten in-house by Q’s experienced team and can be traded via the Qtrade portal or by direct access to empowered underwriters.

Acquinex

Acquinex is a specialist Managing General Agent focusing on providing bespoke M&A insurance products for small to mid-market deals across Europe, through offices in the UK, Germany, Poland and Denmark.

Associated brands

Cobra Network Underwriting

Cobra Network Underwriting offers commercial insurance products and mainly writes property based solutions. The strong property expertise complements the liability and motor focus of Thistle and TFP. The brand is exclusive to Cobra Network members, offering underwriter-led service for a variety of commercial insurance solutions.

London Market

Citynet

Citynet is a Lloyd’s broker specialising in the placement of commercial business into the London market. They are a leading supplier of specialist products and services to insurance intermediaries including liability, motor fleet, property and professional indemnity.


Guest Krieger

Guest Krieger Ltd is a long-established, independent, specialist Lloyd’s insurance broker dedicated to getting the best solutions for its clients.

Cobra Network

Cobra Network

Members can enjoy retaining their independence while having the power of Cobra Network behind them to prosper and grow. They are provided with market access and exclusive schemes, business planning support, FCA compliance, HR and training support and FCA certification advice.

International

Optis

Optis, based in Ireland, operate as a Managing General Agents for a number of A rated insurers. They provide a suite of combined liability and commercial combined packaged products for sectors including construction, retail, hospitality, property owners, manufacturing and distribution. Products are distributed through a proprietary online platform solution.

Marx Re-Insurance Brokers

Based in Germany, Marx Re is a reinsurance and insurance broking company with a growing global network. The business has a major focus on asset based business, primarily in property and construction, power generation and renewable energy sourced Europe and Latin America.

WDB

WDB is a leading independent insurance broker in Poland. Founded in 2007, WDB has experienced rapid growth during its 13-year history driven by both organic development and acquisition. Their diversified business mix is based on strong expertise in a number of sub-segments of life and non-life insurance, with a focus mainly on clients in the real estate, and transportation sector as well as life and health programs in the public sector.

ABI

Founded in 1997, ABI offers consulting services and a wide range of insurance products to over 70 thousand customers. ABI joined PIB Group in March 2023.

Campion Insurance

Established in 1984, Campion Insurance is a market-leading insurance broker with history of success and growth in the Irish market. Over the years, it has established a strong brand and reputation as a trusted advisor with specialist sector knowledge across three lines of business for Commercial Insurance, Personal Insurance and Life & Pensions.

Cicor Internacional

Formed in 1998 and based in Spain, Cicor Internacional offers comprehensive insurance solutions to small, medium, and large businesses, trade groups, associations and individuals. Niches include gaming, marine and aviation, as well as credit and surety.

Light Insurance

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Light Insurance is an independent insurance broker servicing the mid to large corporate market in The Netherlands. The business offers a range of specialized products to mainly on domestic businesses and the Dutch operations of larger groups. These include property and casualty, income protection, health insurance and provides pension scheme advice to clients. Light also works clients to identify insurance solutions for their international activities.

Brokers Union

Brokers Union

Established since 2002, Brokers Union is a strong player in the Polish insurance market providing advisory and brokerage services. It operates a diverse business mix based on several sub segments of life and non-life insurance, with particular expertise in public administration as well as sectors include healthcare, property management and transportation.

Exito Consulting

Headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, Exito Consulting offers advisory and brokerage services for both life and non-life insurance for clients across the construction, marine, railway, transportation, and environmental sectors. Exito Consulting is formed of three trading entities; Exito Broker Sp. z o.o. (an insurance broker), Eko Broker Sp.z o.o. (specialising in insurance for the environmental and waste management sector), and ECRB Sp.z  o.o. (a reinsurance broker).

Alan Tierney & Partners Ltd

Established since 1979, Alan Tierney & Partners is a retail commercial insurance broker and a financial planning firm. The business boasts a specialism in hospitality and leisure industries, in particular the pub sector. The highly qualified team provides expert commercial insurance, personal insurance and financial planning services to their diverse client base including large corporates, SME’s and individuals.

Fingal Insurance Group

Fingal Insurance Group (‘Fingal’) is a leading commercial insurance broker boasting a 40 year trading history, with particular expertise in the construction and transport (logistics and haulage) sectors. They provide detailed risk management and insurance advice to commerial / corporate clients.