Your PI cover may not be enough
South Africa’s risk and financial advisers must pay close attention to the terms and conditions contained in their professional indemnity (PI) insurance covers and realise that these policies are unlikely to perform for all possible scenarios. Steve von Roretz, Director at Leppard Underwriting, kicked off his presentation to the Financial Intermediaries of Southern Africa (FIA) 2022 Advice Summit by observing that intermediaries were increasingly blamed for everything that went wrong in the insurance value chain. Hence the title of his talk: ‘Financial services providers (FSPs) at risk’.