About us

A leading Managing General Agent (MGA), we proudly deliver niche insurance products through a trusted network of over 200 expert insurance brokers across Ireland.

Our story

Pen Underwriting Ireland evolved from the Wrightway Underwriting team, which was established in 1999 and has over two decades of Lloyd’s coverholder status. Our heritage is built on innovation, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering high-quality insurance solutions.

What we do

We specialise in providing non-standard insurance products across a range of sectors, including:

• Accidental Damage Fire & Theft
• Carriers Liability/Goods in Transit
• Contractors Combined Liability
• Fleet and Haulage
• General Liability
• Household
• Own Goods Fleet
• Private Motor and Commercial Vans
• Public / Employers Liability for haulage
• Single Trucks
• Special Types

Why choose Pen Underwriting

At Pen Underwriting Ireland, we are proud to work exclusively with insurance brokers. This allows us to build strong, collaborative relationships and deliver a high level of service. Here’s what makes us different:

• Customer focus
  Service matters to us. We believe that our focus on our brokers and customers is foundation of our success.
• Access to decision makers
  We provide fast, definitive responses, ensuring efficiency and clarity in every interaction.
• Commitment to excellence
  We invest in underwriting and claims expertise, supported by robust governance, to deliver good outcomes for our customers.

Claims expertise

Our dedicated claims team is at the heart of our service. With a wealth of knowledge and experience, we can provide end-to-end claims handling with understanding, fairness, and efficiency. We pride ourselves on negotiating settlements without unnecessary delays.

Our partners

As an MGA, we have built long standing, mutually successful relationships with key A-rated* capacity providers, including Arch Insurance DAC and Zurich Insurance Europe AG.

We work together to deliver relevant, specialist insurance products - including private motor, commercial motor, household, casualty, marine carriers and special types - to Irish insurance brokers.  Our ambitious nature means we are continually exploring opportunities to expand our product range.

Pen Underwriting Ireland is a coverholder at Lloyd’s, the world's leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace.

* Independent ratings from third party rating companies. Correct as at December 2025

We're part of the Pen Underwriting group of businesses

At Pen Underwriting, exciting new chapters keep being written as we constantly strive to deliver more for brokers and their customers.

Over the past decade, we’ve built a multi-class, multi-territory virtual insurer, able to offer all the capabilities you’d expect from an insurance company but with the entrepreneurial energy, niche expertise and flexibility that MGAs are known for.

Part of one of the largest MGAs headquartered in the UK, who are responsible for managing around £1bn gross written premium (GWP), we have a bold 2030 vision – to become a £1.75bn GWP underwriting and distribution business and the leading MGA in the UK, Ireland and wider EMEA region with the best products, people and culture.

Only by continuing to deliver the underwriting expertise, product relevance and responsive service brokers and customers need will we achieve that. So, we will listen and learn and continue adding real value for customers at every step of their journey with us.

The Pen Underwriting businesses have expanded our physical presence into Europe, including teams in UK and Norway – and we remain focused on bringing quality underwriting businesses and strategic hires with complementary specialisms and cultural alignment into the Pen family.

With a collaborative culture, we’re proud to be an underwriting and distribution business with quality underwriting at its heart, led by an energetic team. A business that demonstrates every day the added value it brings to customers, colleagues, brokers and capacity providers alike.

And being part of a strong global organisation, we will continue investing in the businesses, the talent and the innovation required to ensure our customers can keep accessing the cover they need, when they need it.