AmTrust Financial Services, a global specialty property and casualty insurer, has formed a new leadership team for its Excess and Surplus (E&S) division through promotions and expanding the roles of five executives.
The division will be led by Senior Vice President Erich Bublitz, who will report to Dan Hickey, President of AmTrust Specialty Insurance.
Shannon Piotrowski has been promoted to Vice President, Brokerage New Business Team, followed by Caseta Paul who has been promoted to Vice President, Brokerage Renewal.
Jackie Hennig has been appointed to lead the Unsupported Excess Team, where she will be responsible for building and leading the underwriting team, setting the underwriting strategy, and achieving underwriting profit objectives in her new role.
In addition to these appointments, Christopher Fylak will develop and enhance AmTrust’s E&S binding platform to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions to improve the experience for our agent partners.
Bublitz commented: “AmTrust has built a team of some of the best excess and surplus professionals in the business. I am honored to now be leading this team and look forward to driving an exceptional 2022.
“The new leadership team will support a unified national underwriting appetite, with a focus on specific industry segments and continue our dedicated wholesale distribution strategy.”
Hickey added: “I am very excited about the future of AmTrust’s E&S group and am confident that this team will increase our leadership position in the industry and further our reputation as a highly responsive E&S underwriter.”
