Wave 2 role maps add insurance claims directors and asset-management operations heads to the Section 250 corpus. The insight is practical: review real authority, source provenance, and evidence records — not invented benchmark counts or market rankings.
What wave 2 adds
Wave 2 adds two sector-role surfaces to the Section 250 role-map corpus: insurance claims directors and asset-management heads of operations. Both are evidence-prompt pages. They do not claim how many firms have a gap, how common the role is across the market, or whether any named firm is exposed.
That restraint is intentional. These pages exist to guide a firm-specific review: what authority the role actually holds, which records should be collected, and where the SM&CR baseline may not answer the Section 250 question on its own.
Why claims and operations roles deserve review
Claims directors can influence claims strategy, delegated authority, complaints, litigation escalation, and remediation pathways. A head of operations in asset management can shape outsourced operations, trade support, reconciliations, incident response, and the operating model for a substantial part of the firm.
Those examples are not conclusions. They are prompts for evidence collection. The s.250(3) test remains functional: the question is whether the individual plays a significant role in making decisions about, or managing or organising, the whole or a substantial part of the organisation's activities.
How to use the insight safely
Use the role maps as a checklist for the evidence record. Start with SM&CR records, committee terms, policy ownership, delegation matrices, and incident or claims-control documentation. Then record why the role is included, excluded, or sent for legal review.
Do not turn the role maps into a benchmark. The coverage data methodology explains the boundary: asset-derived context can show source dates, methodology versions, and output hashes when provenance is complete. It is not FCA endorsement, not complete market coverage, not a market benchmark, and not a legal conclusion.
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- Section 250 role-map hubcoverproof.co.uk/resources/section-250
- Insurance claims director role mapcoverproof.co.uk/resources/section-250/insurance-claims-director
- Asset-management operations head role mapcoverproof.co.uk/resources/section-250/asset-management-operations-head
- Coverage data methodologycoverproof.co.uk/resources/coverage-data-methodology
- Crime and Policing Act 2026, s.250www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/250