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Briefing: Brokers could be ‘on thin ice’ where commission sharing is concerned

By 2026-02-06T09:00:00

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The ground is shrinking beneath brokers and insurers still involved in the process of shafting leaseholders

The regulator, government and the judiciary are aligned on changing a set of rules that have long served to cut the beneficiaries of an insurance policy out of important decisions on where to source their protection.

Back in 2022, soon after I joined Insurance Times, I wrote about how leaseholders in multioccupancy buildings were being shafted by rules which meant that, while they paid for their building’s insurance via service fees to a building management agent, they had no input in the buying process.

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