Pen Underwriting, the UK-based multi-class, multi-territory managing general agent (MGA), has strengthened its specialist Construction & Casualty division with the appointment of four underwriting professionals across its offices in Birmingham, Liphook, and London.
The latest hires form part of Pen Underwriting’s ongoing investment in its regional underwriting capability, reinforcing the company’s specialist casualty expertise and supporting its continued growth in the UK broker market.
Dawn Strong has joined Pen Underwriting as Senior Casualty Underwriter at the company’s Liphook office in Hampshire. She brings more than two decades of experience in commercial insurance, having initially built her career in insurance broking before moving into underwriting. Strong joins Pen Underwriting from Zurich Insurance, where she spent the past three years as a Trading Underwriter.
Pen Underwriting has also appointed Ravi Banger as Casualty Underwriter in Birmingham. Banger has more than 10 years’ experience specialising in liability underwriting, with expertise in complex risks developed through roles spanning underwriting, claims and customer services. He joins Pen Underwriting from NFU Mutual, where he served as Corporate Insurance Liability Underwriter, and has previously worked for Zurich Insurance, LV, Wesleyan and Direct Line Group.
The company’s London team has also grown with the arrival of Ollie Jochimsen as Casualty Underwriter. Jochimsen joins Pen Underwriting from Lloyd’s broker Bridge Specialty International, bringing extensive experience in casualty risks together with an understanding of the needs of brokers and their clients within the specialist market. Josh Murphy has also joined Pen Underwriting’s London-based Construction & Casualty team as Assistant Underwriter.
Paul Murphy, Managing Director of Construction & Casualty at Pen Underwriting, commented: “Every specialist underwriting business with ambitious growth plans needs to keep investing in people to ensure broker response times, access to decision-making underwriters and the ability to offer competitive and appropriate risk solutions keep pace with business expansion. That’s why we are delighted to welcome Dawn, Ravi, Ollie and Josh into the team, and it’s great to be deepening our casualty underwriting expertise across the regional markets and brokers that we serve.
“With a comprehensive construction footprint able to cater for the vast majority of trades, from high risk to general builders – and a specialist liability team whose expertise stretches well beyond construction into retail, recycling, manufacturing and much more – our broad underwriting appetite needs great people to keep delivering quality service and coverage to our broker partners and their clients.”
