About the Business

We are one of the UK’s leading, fully independent, brokers and have a reputation for providing superior risk advice and insurance management programmes.

We act for a variety of clients, including: large AIM Listed firms, boutique businesses and private clients, across a broad range of business sectors. The size and complexity of our clients’ businesses differ and our expert teams clearly understand this with a tailored and consistent service. We seek to partner with clients and to protect and guide them through a dynamic and changing insurance market.

Our independent status provides impartial access to the market, 99% of our work is executed with Standard and Poor A rated insurers and our minimum criteria is BBB+, and we deliver cost-effective insurance programmes of the highest standard. We are a Lloyds broker and provide clients with the widest access to the market and as a Chartered Insurance Broker we are committed to industry best practice.

We are a national business operating out of regional offices across the United Kingdom. We act internationally with global specialists.
Business Services

Hospitality & Leisure

Hospitality & Leisure

James Hallam is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of insurance and risk management solutions to the hospitality and leisure industries. We have worked with the sectors since 1982 and are fully committed to improving the quality of services and products as well as making a difference to the sectors by our work with the Springboard Charity where we are corporate patrons and our Director of Hospitality and Leisure, David Noble is a trustee.

Our core services include risk assessment, insurance design, insurance placing, programme services and claims settlement and our well established team of highly experienced insurance professionals work together with our specialist risk management team to understand your business inside out, dealing as one, with your people and your insurers. As our business is based on long-term relationships our senior people remain involved in meeting all aspects of your needs as we always maintain client contact and account management responsibility. We provide significant premium discounts for good risk management practice and work in partnership with our clients to achieve best risk management practice.

As we are a dedicated team providing insurance solutions to hospitality and leisure industries we innovate and have developed specialist wordings with insurers that offer broad and cohesive cover and significant premium discounts for good risk management practice. This includes the long established Gauntlet product for hotels.

Corporate Risks

Corporate Risks

The Corporate Risk team is expert at partnering with clients from the Public, Private and ‘Not for Profit’ sectors. We align our work to our clients business outcomes, providing specific risk advice and tailored insurance programmes.

As a fully independent broker with specialist expertise, clients value our thorough understanding of the complexity of business and our wider analysis of the market. As a Lloyds broker we offer the widest access to the market and a placement strategy driven only by the best interests of our clients, and being a Chartered Insurance Broker we are committed to industry best practice.

We pride ourselves on our levels of client service. Every client has a single point of contact, a consistent team and board level access. We spend time with our clients to really understand their business and its future plans. We leverage this knowledge to deliver a depth of consultancy that can optimise the financial architecture of their companies, and have the right experience to identify when a conventional approach can be improved using alternative risk transfer methods or funding solutions.

Our core service teams are supported by specialists across a wide range of risks such as Professional and Management Liability, Cyber Risks, Trade Credit and Marine. As members of an International Network of independent brokers we can support operations overseas using our Global specialists.
Location & Hours

27 Duke Street

Chelmsford, CM1 1HT
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