While Phil Bunker and his ABC Insurance team are helping smaller brokers to grow, it seems they’re doing it by taking some weight off the ‘big’ brokers.

Bunker recently challenged Paul Cosh, managing director of Hero Insurance Services, to reduce his size.

Well, Cosh was already on a diet and Bunker didn’t believe it would work. So a large wager was struck and Backchat learns that the money will shortly be travelling from Croydon to Brentwood where Cosh’s transformation has taken place.

Backchat couldn’t discover the size of the bet, but understands that Cosh’s weight loss is equivalent to the sort of percentages that brokers used to be paid by insurers.

The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.

Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.

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