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What makes Lockton stand apart is also what makes us better: independence. As the world's largest privately owned, independent insurance broker – we empower our 9,000+ Associates doing business in over 125 countries with a single-minded focus on delivering results for clients, through our specialist risk and insurance solutions.
We understand the challenges that our clients face. Our approach – one that’s genuinely different from our peers – is to work with our clients, focusing on the areas of cost that are affecting their business and creating a tailored plan to protect it. Whether it be a motor fleet risk, transportation and supply chain risks, or employee benefit solutions, we’re here to support you.
Logistics companies making last-mile deliveries and particularly their drivers are under increasing pressure to deliver goods fast and within a specific time window. Technology can help fleet managers to better monitor processes and mitigate the risk of accidents – find out more in the article above.
Leveraging the expertise of our strategic and operational risk specialists – Lockton Risk Radar is a quarterly publication that captures the latest insight for companies looking to bolster their own risk controls.
The UK has yet to legalise the use of private electric scooters on the street, despite there being around 1 million vehicles in operation over the country.
In our latest insights article, we explore how the rules in other countries such as Belgium and Spain may show the way forward for legalising the use of e-scooters in the UK, and how any changes will impact existing road users.
The past three years have been turbulent. Major crises such as climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine conflict have changed risk perception. These events have rapidly disrupted businesses across the globe. Traditional risk measurement when addressing these focuses on likelihood and impact – but the dimension of velocity has become critical. How is increasing risk velocity affecting businesses? Find out in our Risk Velocity report here.
As plastic production has grown, so too has plastic-related pollution, leading to a tangible effort by institutions and governments globally to tackle the environmental fall out, which is expected to result in a sizeable claims issue in the coming years. Lockton’s Environmental Practice Leader James Alexander has written an insightful article on the liability risks for businesses from plastic pollution which you can read here.
The UK introduced substantial changes to the traffic rules to help protect vulnerable road users against motorised vehicles. It requires extensive driver training to increase awareness of these changes and the potential accidents and conflicts with other road users that may occur as a result. This has heightened relevance particularly since the number and different type of vulnerable road users have increased substantially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Find out more in our article.
Fatal injuries in transportation and storage are twice as high as the average across sectors while non-fatal injuries are also statistically significantly higher. Companies in the logistics sector need to address these risks not only due to their duty of care towards providing a safe working environment but also to avoid potentially expensive lawsuits. Find out the main issues to consider in our article here.