Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance appointed a former AIG executive to lead its Casualty Claims business in the UK. Lockton made a number of key executive hires in multiple business segments. TigerRisk hired an executive who will handle its InsurTech business, among other responsibilities.
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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance appointed Nikki Nagra as Head of Casualty Claims in the UK.
Based in Manchester, Nagra’s appointment establishes a senior claims presence at the heart of BHSI’s UK National team, reinforcing a commitment to the city and to the national business.
Nagra comes to BHSI with more than two decades of claims management experience. MoNst recently, she was UK Motor Claims Manager at AIG, where her career also included leadership roles handling casualty and disease claims.
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.Lockton disclosed it made key executive hires in its Representations and Warranties (R&W) Insurance, Tax Liability Insurance and Contingent Liability and Litigation Insurance divisions.
Industry veterans Eddie Kim, Paul Ahn, Emily Rosen and Nicole McCarthy join Lockton’s R&W insurance practice. They collectively have backgrounds that span practice at major law firms and years of brokerage on complex and fast-moving R&W insurance placements.
Dan Berger joins Lockton from AIG, where he served as the lead tax insurance underwriter for North America and will now lead Lockton’s tax liability insurance practice. Berger’s prior experience as a tax attorney includes roles at Brookfield Asset Management, Moelis, and Proskauer Rose. Joining Berger in the tax insurance practice is Yonatan Tammam, a fellow tax lawyer who joins Lockton most recently from Kirkland & Ellis.
To head up its contingent liability and litigation insurance group, Lockton has hired Michael Perich. Perich joins the firm after spending most of his career in the litigation funding industry, where he held roles at Gerchen Keller, Burford Capital and most recently, Westfleet Advisors, a litigation finance advisor and broker.
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TigerRisk Partners LLC, a risk, capital and strategic advisor to the global insurance and reinsurance industries, has appointed Jack Snyder as Head of InsurTech Origination and Head of Financial Advisory.
Based in New Jersey, Snyder will be leading the company’s Ratings Agency Advisory team and will also focus on the InsurTech sector.
Snyder joins from Guy Carpenter, where for the past 16 years, he was Managing Director, Head of the Strategic Ratings Advisory Unit. Previously, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Munich American Reassurance Company. A graduate of Cornell University, he previously worked as Chief Ratings Officer at AM Best.
Sources: BHSI, Lockton, Tiger Risk