Bespoke Insurance

One Renewal Date, One Relationship: Why We Built It This Way

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Putting your insurance with one broker on a single renewal date means one conversation a year instead of several. Someone reviews everything together, so gaps and overlaps are spotted, claims are simpler, and a portfolio can often be priced more efficiently.

Policies tend to accumulate. The house with one insurer, the cars with another, the jewellery on a separate policy, a second home elsewhere. Each renews at a different time, each has its own wording, and each is something you notice only when the renewal notice arrives and you skim it.

Why we built it this way

The idea is simple. Everything you own should sit in one place, reviewed together, with a single renewal date. Our app shows your policies in one view and lets cover be amended, so the picture is never out of date.

Before and after: a household with several insurance policies

Imagine a family with five policies, five insurers and five renewal dates. Before: five renewal notices spread across the year, five sets of wording, and no one looking at the whole picture, so a new piece of jewellery, a renovation or a changed security system sits unreported on one policy and unseen by the others. After: one broker, one renewal conversation a year, one overview, a single number to call, and the cost efficiencies that come from having one insurance portfolio to manage.

Before and after: a business with several sites

The same principle applies commercially. A hospitality client came to us with ten pubs, several different insurers and ten different renewal dates. That meant a renewal to manage almost every month. We brought the whole group together under one insurer, one renewal date and one programme. Ten small accounts became one properly sized account, which gets the attention a serious account deserves, with one renewal a year and one point of contact.

What else you gain

  • Gaps and overlaps spotted, because someone is looking at everything together.
  • A simpler claim, because one person knows your whole programme.
  • Often a better price for portfolios.
  • Less of your time, because you deal with one renewal, not many.

FAQ's

Our experts answer important questions

Can I move all my insurance to one renewal date?

Often, with a broker's help. Policies can be aligned at renewal or adjusted part way through the year, depending on the insurers.

Is it cheaper to insure everything with one broker?

It can be, because insurers often price a larger, better understood account more favourably. Compare the cover as well as the price.

What is an insurance programme for a business with several sites?

A single arrangement covering every site, with one insurer, one renewal date and one point of contact.

If you are juggling several policies, we would be glad to show you what bringing them together could look like. Get in touch with Vanderbilt.

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