Director Simon Fenn judging the 2025 Insurance Times Awards

It's the big one - The Insurance Times Awards.

Judging is now completed for the 2025 event with the awards night just a month away.

Last year it was Claudia Winkleman handing out the trophies to the winners.

As last year, the award categories cover big ticket accolades like Insurer of the Year, through to excellence in fraud prevention, claims handling, risk mitigation, and progressive use of technology.

Simon Fenn was invited onto the judging panel for the second consecutive year.

See the full list of judges for 2025.

Fenn heads up Pancentric's consultancy operations and commercial development of their SaaS portfolio. Pancentric's SaaS portfolio features the full-lifecycle policy administration system Go-Insur-PAS, leading intranet and portal solution HUB-Intranet and email automation platform Enabler.

Fenn brings extensive sector experience to the judging process and commented:

"It's a privilege to judge these awards and fantastic to take stock of the many great initiatives happening across the industry, and the progress being made in key areas. An impressive range of presentations shared today. Truly tough to decide on winners - a close call in the categories I was involved in judging. Every submission delivered with belief and passion - we look forward to revealing the winners on the big night in early December."  

The Award Categories

• Business Partner of the Year
• Challenger of the Year
• Claims Partner of the Year
• Commercial Lines Broker of the Year
• Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year
• Customer Champion of the Year - Broker
• Customer Champion of the Year - Insurer/MGA
• Digital Broker of the Year
• Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Award
• Excellence in AI
• Excellence in Claims Technology
• Excellence in Claims Technology - Insurer
• Excellence in eTrading
• Excellence in Fraud Mitigation
• Excellence in Professional Development
• Excellence in Risk Management
• Excellence in Technology - Broker
• Excellence in Technology - Insurer/MGA
• Excellence in Technology - Service Provider
• General Insurer of the Year
• Innovation of the Year
• Insurance Broker of the Year
• Marketing Campaign of the Year
• MGA of the Year (under 100 employees)
• MGA of the Year (over 100 employees)
• Personal Lines Broker of the Year
• Personal Lines Insurer of the Year
• Schemes Broker of the Year
• Specialist Insurer of the Year
• Sustainability Initiative of the Year
• The Insurance Times Industry Achiever Award
• The Insurance Times Industry Impact Award
• The Insurance Times Young Achiever Award