Ecclesiastical joins forces with counter terrorism start-up

Specialist insurer  Ecclesiastical has partnered with risk management start-up Key Risk to provide brokers with expert counter terrorism advice.

Under the collaboration, brokers selecting a policy from Ecclesiastical insurance will be able to offer customers a discounted annual crisis management training and assessment license.

Key Risk is a specialist risk management company formed by experts with experience of working in the armed forces and emergency services. It specialise in providing counter terrorism risk assessments, training, ‘real life’ exercises and assurance solutions for policyholders.

The partnership builds on Ecclesiastical’s experience within the insurance industry and adds to its existing Enterprise Risk Management offering.

Jo Whyman (pictured), risk management director at Ecclesiastical, explained: “We know that our customers face a wide range of challenges, and with the risk landscape always changing it is important that we stay ahead of the curve to help them manage that risk.

“This new partnership with Key Risk Ltd will provide our policyholders with top quality advice and support – helping them to meet their duty of care and compliance requirements, reducing the risk to people, properties and their business operations.”

Alex Jones, relationship manager for Key Risk, added: “We are delighted to be supporting Ecclesiastical customers through our high quality, customer led, risk solutions. As well as reducing the negative consequences of disruptive events, we focus on exploring value opportunities that can be generated from effective risk management. We appreciate Ecclesiastical are a proactive risk carrier who are continually horizon scanning to identify emerging risks.”

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