Martyn Ingram

Martyn is Managing Director of the company. He joined the insurance industry in 1974 and has worked in both Personal Lines and Commercial broking. He qualified as a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute in 1987 and is Principal Examiner for certain examinations.

Liz Neilson

Liz started working in the Insurance Industry in 1990. The main part of her work has been in the area of Commercial Underwriting. She has been with Norris & Fisher since 2002 and was appointed Office Manager in 2003. Liz is progressing through the examinations of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Lorraine Loxton-Gear

Lorraine worked for Commercial Union for several years in Portsmouth and Southampton. Her main area of work concentrated on Commercial Underwriting as well as working in the New Business department. She left the insurance industry in 1994 to become a nurse and decided to returned to insurance with Norris & Fisher in 2003.

Rita Morrissey

Rita has worked in the insurance industry for many years. Her first job was in an insurance brokers in Eastleigh where Martyn Ingram was a director. Since then she has worked for a number of other brokers and for Royal & Sun Alliance. She joined Norris & Fisher in September 2007.

Valerie Miller

Valerie worked for Guardian Royal Exchange from 1964 to 1978 in the underwriting department. After a career break to bring up her family, she returned to GRE in 1990. They were subsequently taken over by Axa Insurance. Valerie left in 2000 and joined Norris & Fisher in July 2004.

Daniel Swann

Daniel has worked in the insurance industry since 2002 and has dealt primarily with commercial risks. He has worked for Zurich, Norwich Union and Aon. Daniel joined Norris & Fisher in August 2009.

Tom Ingram

Tom joined Norris & Fisher in 2007 from Zurich Insurance, where he dealt with motor insurance enquiries. He had previously achieved a Batchelor of Arts degree at Swansea University. Tom specialises in Village Hall insurance.

Mike Lawford

Mike has been a consultant with his own business in the insurance industry for over 30 years and has advised many charities and voluntary organisations – including Village and Community Halls – about their needs during this time. Mike amalgamated his business with that of Norris & Fisher in 2005 and is now representing us to continue this work.

Norris and Fisher (Insurance Brokers) Ltd were established in Christchurch in 1988 by John Norris and Mike Fisher. John and Mike concentrated on life and pensions business but were joined in 1997 by Martyn Ingram with a view to expanding their commercial insurance portfolio.

In 1999 the commercial insurance division split from the Christchurch office and was established in Romsey as a separate company. There have been two subsequent moves to larger offices.

There are still close links between the Christchurch and the Romsey offices.