First for Specialist - First for Expertise - First for Service First Underwriting offer broker partners the security of a large organisation; but with the agility, expertise and personal touch of a specialist provider or smaller company. The best of both worlds for brokers! Our underwriters are always ready to speak to you about your specialist insurance needs, particular those risks which are unusual or hard to place. Furthermore, we don’t hide our underwriters away in a dark, back office – they can be contacted directly by our broker partners. First Underwriting were established in 2018 as a highly specialised and niche underwriting business. Our UK parent company is NSM UK Holdings Limited, who are a UK division of NSM Insurance Group. NSM Insurance Group are the leading specialist insurance provider in the USA, with over 1m clients and over $1.5bn in premiums.