National Interstate Insurance Company, a member of Great American Insurance Group, has promoted Shawn V. Los to president and chief operating officer.
Los joined National Interstate in 2001 as an underwriter trainee and most recently served as executive vice president. During his 20 years with the company, he has held numerous management and executive positions within National Interstate and its subsidiary, Vanliner Insurance Company.
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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance announced that it has promoted Caroline Alder-Smurthwaite to head of Casualty and James Emson to the role of head of Technical Casualty in the UK.
Alder-Smurthwaite joined BHSI last year as head of General Casualty. Before that, she was London Corporate Casualty and International Casualty manager at another global insurer. In her new role, she will oversee underwriting of all technical and general casualty lines for BHSI in the UK.
Emson joined BHSI in 2018 as senior casualty underwriter. He was previously promoted to casualty manager, Technical Casualty, in the UK before ascending to his current role of head of Technical Casualty.
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Conduit Re has appointed Greg Roberts as group chief underwriting officer. Roberts takes over this role from Trevor Carvey, the group chief executive officer and the current group chief underwriting officer, with effect from March 1, 2022, when he will also join the executive committee.
The appointment is subject to Bermuda immigration approval.
Roberts joined Conduit prior to the IPO in 2020 to lead Conduit’s property underwriting. Before that, he was head of AmTrust Re.
“It was always our intention to split the roles of CEO and CUO to allow Trevor to concentrate on his role as CEO and the strategic development of the group,” commented Neil Eckert, group executive chairman of Bermuda-based Conduit.
“Under Trevor’s leadership, we are now through the initial foundational phase of building out both our underwriting team and portfolio. During that process, Greg has emerged as the outstanding candidate to assume the mantle of CUO, and we feel that now is the right time to promote Greg into this key role,” Eckert added.
Conduit Re is a pure play global reinsurance business based in Bermuda. Conduit Reinsurance Limited is licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority as a Class 4 insurer.
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Cyber MGU At-Bay announced that Stephanie Lynch and Adam Petrone have joined the company as head of Reinsurance and head of Insurance Operations and Strategy, respectively.
Lynch most recently served as vice president at Safety National Re, where she was focused on underwriting the growing professional liability portfolio, and before that Arch Re, where she worked in an actuarial reserving and financial reporting capacity before transitioning to underwriting, focusing on professional liability.
Petrone most recently served as senior vice president at Hiscox, leading the Northeast region of the U.S. broker business. While there, he held P&L responsibility and owned business planning for 12 product lines and more than 20 underwriters.