Human Excellence
Experienced people making confident, accountable underwriting decisions.
Built by Underwriters. Designed for Brokers.
Quintus Underwriting is a specialist UK MGA created to bring underwriting back to what it should be: expert judgement, responsive service and intelligent technology working together.
Why Quintus Exists
Quintus wasn’t created in a boardroom.
Quintus was built from more than 15 years of underwriting experience and a belief that the insurance market can serve brokers, customers and capacity providers better.
Too often, brokers struggle to reach empowered underwriters, specialist risks are forced through rigid processes, and insurer partners receive limited insight into how portfolios are developing.
Quintus was created to provide a better model: experienced underwriters, specialist products, modern technology and disciplined governance working together.
The objective is not to remove people from underwriting. It is to give good underwriters better tools, better information and more time to make sound decisions.
Meet the Founder
FounderThomas Cartwright
Thomas Cartwright
Founder & CEO
In his own words
Why did you create Quintus?
We created Quintus to raise the standards of our industry.
We’re doing that through five pillars.
- Human Excellence: talented people with aligned values.
- Innovation: technology that complements our service, never compromises it.
- Data Transparency: sharing performance data openly with our partners and insurers.
- Market-Leading Products: every product meticulously researched to deliver on all fronts.
- Relentless Improvement: if we can do better, tell us. We listen, and complacency is not an option.
So, we’re launching as a specialist MGA, underwriting Non-Standard Home, Property Owners and Land Liability.
Simply put, we’re building a business that does insurance the right way.
The Five Pillars
In Latin, Quintus means the fifth. Five principles support how we underwrite, serve brokers and build lasting insurer partnerships.
Intelligent Technology
Technology that improves speed, accuracy and insight while keeping people in control.
Transparent Insight
Meaningful information shared with brokers and insurer partners.
Specialist Products
Purpose-built insurance products designed around clearly understood customer needs.
Relentless Improvement
Continuous learning, review and refinement across products, service and underwriting.
Quintus Property is only the beginning.
Our long-term ambition is to build a group of specialist underwriting businesses recognised for technical expertise, responsive service, disciplined governance and trusted insurer partnerships.
We are not trying to become the biggest.
We are building to become one of the most trusted.
Become a Broker Partner
Partner with Quintus Underwriting for specialist support, tailored solutions, and a team committed to broker success.