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News on insurance and reinsurance industry hiring, appointments and people moves. News and announcements covering key hires and people moves across the global reinsurance, commercial and specialty insurance markets.
DAC Beachcroft adds two to Claims Solutions business
8th October 2018
International law firm DAC Beachcroft has announced the appointment of Kate Archer and Paul Cox as partners in its Claims Solutions business. Archer is a specialist in defending motor-related large loss and catastrophic injury claims and most recently served as a Director at DWF. She previously worked at DAC Beachcroft as a ... Read the full article
CNA Hardy scales back Lloyd’s activity as senior duo depart
4th October 2018
CNA Hardy, a UK specialist commercial re/insurer, has announced its decision to exit Property Treaty, Marine Hull and CAR/EAR business on the Lloyd’s platform. The lines had struggled to deliver consistent profitability despite improving market conditions. Furthermore, Chief Underwriting Officer Patrick Gage has confirmed his departure from the company; he will remain ... Read the full article
Marsh makes senior leadership appointments within captive business
4th October 2018
Global re/insurance broker Marsh has announced two senior leadership appointments within its Marsh Captive Solutions business. Julie Boucher takes direct leadership of the company’s Bermuda, Cayman, and Barbados captive offices as Islands Practice Leader, a newly-created role effective January 1, 2019. Boucher, who has been with Marsh for 30 years, will relocate ... Read the full article
Ascent appoints Brit’s Caspar Stops to Head of Cyber
3rd October 2018
Cyber and specialty lines Managing General Agent, Ascent Underwriting, has announced the appointment of Caspar Stops as Head of Cyber. Stops joins from Brit where he served as Global Cyber, Privacy and Technology Underwriter. He previously served at Aegis and Hiscox, also in underwriting roles. Effective at the end of November, Stops ... Read the full article
Everest Insurance appoints Director of Marketing & Distribution for the Southwest
3rd October 2018
Everest Insurance, a division of global reinsurer Everest Re Group, has appointed Larry Collura as Director of Marketing & Distribution for the West region. Collura joins Everest Insurance from Worldwide Facilities, where he most recently served as Business Development Manager in Phoenix, Arizona, and was responsible for creating, developing and maintaining ... Read the full article
Cooley expands global insurance & Insurtech leadership
3rd October 2018
Law firm Cooley has announced the expansion of its global insurance and Insurtech leadership, with the election of Heidi Lawson to the partnership. Lawson arrived at Cooley in April of this year with special counsel Greg Hoffnagle. Based in Boston, U.S., Lawson is an internationally recognised insurance lawyer who believes in ... Read the full article
AFL appoints JLT Re’s Julia Moretti as Director of Casualty
2nd October 2018
Independent Lloyd’s broker AFL Insurance Brokers has announce the appointed of Julia Moretti as Director of Casualty. Moretti joins from JLT Re, where she served as Partner and Senior Casualty Producer in the Facultative Division. She brings to the role 18 years of market experience, nine of which were spent at United Insurance ... Read the full article
Canopius appoints Swiss Re’s Wattanaumphaipong to lead Asia Pacific reinsurance
2nd October 2018
Global specialty lines re/insurer Canopius has appointed Nattakorn Wattanaumphaipong as Head of Reinsurance, Asia Pacific. Wattanaumphaipong joins the Canopius Singapore office in January 2019 and will report to Jamie Wakeling, Chief Underwriting Officer, Reinsurance. He arrives from Swiss Re, having served the company across multiple senior positions over a period of 13 ... Read the full article
Ed appoints head of Treaty & Facultative team for Singapore
2nd October 2018
Ed, the global reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, has strengthened its Treaty and Facultative team in Singapore with the appointment of Tommy L. Co as Executive Director, effective immediately. Co has 35 years of re/insurance industry experience and joins Ed from ERGO Insurance Singapore, where he most recently served as Chief ... Read the full article
Markel makes new Trade Credit & Surety appointments
2nd October 2018
Markel International, the specialist insurer, has strengthened its Trade Credit, Political Risk & Surety (TCPRS) operations by expanding the role of Simon Philpin and appointing Victoria Northedge as Assistant Underwriter. Philpin has worked in Markel’s Trade Credit division since 2014, most recently as a Senior Underwriter, and will now also be ... Read the full article
Aon launches Americas Capital Advisory team, Kelly Superczynski to lead
2nd October 2018
Global re/insurance broker Aon has announced the launch of its Americas Capital Advisory team, aimed at strengthening re/insurers’ profitability in the face of low growth, shrinking underwriting margins and perpetually evolving rating agency criteria. Aon says the key goal of this Capital Advisory team is to help re/insurers address a broad ... Read the full article
Mark Cloutier to leave Brit with a view to becoming Chairman & CEO of Aspen
1st October 2018
Brit has announced that Executive Chairman Mark Cloutier is to step down from his role in December 2018, with a view to becoming the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aspen Insurance Holdings. Following his departure, Cloutier will assume a role with an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC, working ... Read the full article
Liberty Specialty expands UK Financial Institutions team
1st October 2018
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has expanded its London-based Financial Institutions (FI) team with the appointments of a new Underwriting Manager and Senior Underwriters. Sam Adamson has been promoted to Underwriting Manager for Financial Institutions, UK and Ireland after six years of working in the ... Read the full article
Munich Re names Mari-Lizette Malherbe as CEO of UK life business
1st October 2018
Munich Re has appointed Mari-Lizette Malherbe as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Munich Re London (Life Branch), the company’s UK & Ireland life reinsurance business, succeeding outgoing CEO Andy Batley. Malherbe has over a decade of international experience in the reinsurance industry and joined the senior management team of Munich Re ... Read the full article
Guy Carpenter appoints Siobhan O’Brien as Head of International Cyber Centre
1st October 2018
Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the reinsurance broker and wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has appointed Siobhan O’Brien Head of the Cyber Centre of Excellence for International and Global Specialties, effective October 1. The newly-created role will see O’Brien lead the International Cyber Centre of Excellence and work ... Read the full article
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