Tuesday 11 December 2012

Article on Professional Indemnity Insurance

There has been a growing interest in the insurance policy Professional Indemnity Insurance from new and established businesses. The policy was originally brought together to cover the major professions and demand from regulating bodies such as the law society and chartered institute of accountants along with the (ARB) Architects Registration Board made it a requirement for their registered member to arrange covers and therefore solicitors, architects and accountant Professional Indemnity Insurance became compulsory.

Sometime later Insurance Brokers estate agents and Independent Financial Advisors regulators made Professional Indemnity Insurance a requirement for those professionals to operate their businesses.

As the demand for companies and their directors and officers to act in a more responsible way towards their clients so the PII policy became more popular, however, instead of perhaps being a nuisance and extra cost to the business, the insurance policy offered great protection to the company and its staff.

To give definition and have a fully explained Professional Indemnity Insurance policy and what it covers you for we can recommend speaking to a specialist PII broker they will without a doubt be the best option to obtain quotes and compare the different Professional Indemnity Insurance covers available for both traditional professions and contractors. We highly recommend not only going to one supplier to purchase your cover because there is a very wide choice of wordings available not to mention costs you may go on the internet to find quote and buy this type of policy however be careful because very few companies on the first page of Google can give you a selection of Professional Indemnity polices to select from. Most are direct insurers with only one option when you go to purchase.

There is only one company in the UK that can offer you up to 9 different (PII) insurers at once in around 60 seconds and although this is out company Professional Insurance Agents Ltd we do offer the wider choice both in price and policy wordings and are also a specialist broker in this area.

Monday 10 December 2012

Google search engine rankings


Google search rankings

Professional Insurance Agents Limited specialist Professional Indemnity Insurance brokers wants to ask 'Google' why they have changed their ranking criteria for Professional Indemnity Insurance.  Having looked at the new first ten companies on the natural search lists, it seems very strange that at least 6 of the companies now shown on the unsponsored supporters of Google. 

You may forgive these new rankings if they were offering something special or a large choice of suppliers for Professional Indemnity Insurance, but the fact is that most are large corporate companies only offering one policy to businesses searching for this type of cover.

We are very much at odds as to why we have dropped from 1st place to 13th in less than 6 weeks, particularly as we have followed all the good practice guides that Google suggests, but more importantly we have 9 professional insurance company policies that can be brought from our website in an instant, more than any other broker or insurer can offer in the UK, so you have to ask yourself where is the client choice now as of 10 December 2012 Google?  Well it goes somewhat like this, based on current unsponsored positions:

  • Hiscox - A big sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer their PI policy
  • Simply Business - A big sponsored supplier to Google, choice of 4 policies, some of which are the same insurers
  • AXA - A big sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer their PI policy
  • Wikipedia - N/A
  • Morethan - A Big sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer their PI policy
  • Markel - A Big sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer their PI policy
  • Freelance - Sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer online RSA policy
  • PolicyBee - Sponsored supplier to Google, can only offer online Hiscox policy
  • Caunceohara - Again!, can only offer online RSA PI Policy
Please do tell Google, is it just our imagination or are you favoring your sponsored link carriers?  Whatever happened to the principal of fair play and is this really in the searchers interest to give them little to no choice?