Our History
Arnott Commercial Insurance Services Ltd was formed in 1996 by the current
M.D., Gerard O’Connor, and Brooks Mileson, owner of the Arnott Insurance
personal lines network. The aim was to provide a specialist commercial broking
unit to support the existing personal lines High Street based business.
The business grew rapidly and further expansion occurred following the sale
of the personal lines network in 2000. The company followed a structured growth
programme with emphasis upon training and the requirement to ensure that the
best levels of technical advice and service, as demanded in the Corporate
sector, could be provided.
Arnott is a young, dynamic but highly professional company with a qualified
management team reporting to a strategic M.D. We are an independent intermediary,
authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority, not requiring
support from any of the number of networks and affinity groups that are currently
prevalent. This reinforces our autonomy and independent status.
The efforts and vision employed in the conception and implementation of the
training and management programmes put in place to achieve FSA authorisation,
has resulted in Arnott achieving IIP and the prestigious ‘Key Champion’
award.
We are now recognised as being one of the most proactive and innovative providers
of insurance and risk management programmes to business. We have one of the
largest development teams in the North and as a result, are one of the largest
and fastest growing independent intermediaries in the region.