Unlike traditional awards ceremonies where a panel of judges pick who they believe to be the winner of a category, the winners are derived from aggregated survey data collected by The Insurance Insider’s Insights Team.

The survey only allows for underwriters and brokers active in the US property cat reinsurance sector to take part. Survey participation levels are set as to achieve statistically significant results.

When the survey closes, the organisers will produce shortlists for each individual award, where they will pick the top five highest-ranked individuals from each company in their respective field. For the company awards, they will pick the top five firms that received the highest score for that category.

The winner of each category will simply be the individual or company with the highest score made up from their supporters’ vote.