Lockton is a specialist commercial and professional services insurance broker with 10 UK offices, including Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Lockton is the the world's largest privately owned global insurance broker. From small beginnings in Kansas City in 1966 Lockton has become a leading broker worldwide. We have achieved extraordinary year on year growth as a result of our relentless focus on client service. Our flat corporate structure and private ownership mean that we can reinvest more of our income in serving our clients and focus better on client service: from the chairman of Lockton down, almost all of our Associates have direct client engagement.
In the UK we have a particular focus on risk and insurance solutions for Professional clients. In addition to our extensive Solicitor client-base, we run insurance schemes for Accountants, Surveyors, IFAs, and Architects across the whole of the UK.
Lockton is the world's largest privately owned global insurance broker
As such, our focus is our clients and our people rather than external shareholders. we can make long-term decisions that benefit our clients and improve service delivery. Our 6,000 associates help over 50,000 clients in 125 countries. They place over $20 billion of insurance premiums.
For six consecutive years, Business Insurance magazine has recognised Lockton as a 'Best Place to Work in Insurance'.
Our clients value our bespoke solutions, innovative ideas and great service rather than efforts to sell more products. StrategicRISK's 2015 UK Corporate Insurance Buyers Survey (a survey of insurance buyers in FTSE 250 companies) ranked Lockton top of all brokers for 'client responsiveness'.
