Crum & Forster Adds Srygley in Captives, Gig Economy Roles
Further strengthening its Captive Solutions and Sharing (Gig) Economy practices, Crum & Forster’s Accident & Health (A&H) Division has appointed C&F veteran Mark Srygley to assist drive its efforts in these key disciplines.
With respect to captives, C&F is working to supply specialised protection for uncommon or hard-to-insure dangers. These new choices can embrace each normal traces of enterprise for each accident and well being and property/casualty and lengthen to all different traces.
A&H Vice President David Kaplan will lead the initiative together with Srygley.
Regarding the sharing financial system the place shoppers typically require one-of-a-kind and artistic insurance coverage merchandise, the group is placing in place a “single-stop” strategy for shoppers whose wants require methods and options throughout a number of disciplines.
“We have a tremendous opportunity here to offer the market new, innovative products and solutions that can fit a multitude of needs for our clients – both in the A&H and P&C space,” stated Srygley, who involves his position from the corporate’s P/C aspect, most not too long ago as senior vp, Underwriting and Business Development.
Throughout his 30-plus-year C&F profession, Srygley has helped create customized insurance coverage options for giant and complicated shoppers in non-traditional industries.
Cybersecurity Specialist Lopez joins U.S. Team for Mosaic Insurance
Cybersecurity specialist Daisy Lopez has joined Mosaic, as the brand new insurer expands its U.S. staff of underwriters in the more and more related product line.
At Mosaic, she is going to specialize in assessing and underwriting advanced cyber dangers throughout North American markets.
Previously, she labored at Crum & Forster as product supervisor for giant attorneys and accountants skilled legal responsibility portfolios. She was concerned in the underwriting of miscellaneous E&O, cyber legal responsibility, and know-how E&O, and managed a staff of underwriters in Chicago and the New York metropolitan space. Before that, she labored for Lockton, the place she assisted skilled companies corporations with the position of property/casualty, skilled and administration legal responsibility protection wants.
Mosaic launched in February this yr and started underwriting cyber insurance coverage globally April 1 by means of groups based mostly in Chicago and London. The product line is certainly one of six provided by the specialty insurer, with underwriting already underway in political violence and political threat traces.
Based in New York, Lopez will likely be vp, Production Specialist, Cyber, reporting to Mosaic’s head of Americas Cyber, Brian Dusek.
CLARA Analytics Names Wilson as Chief Executive Officer
California-based CLARA Analytics, a supplier of synthetic intelligence (AI) know-how in the industrial insurance coverage trade, introduced that Heather H. Wilson has been named as chief govt officer.
Previously, Wilson was the chief knowledge officer of AIG, accountable for the agency’s enterprise knowledge program and next-generation knowledge infrastructure. While at AIG, she was named the Insurance Woman of the Year by the Insurance Technology Association for her knowledge innovation work. Furthermore, she was appointed to the U.S. Treasury Financial Research Advisory Committee in Washington, D.C., in 2015 for her knowledge program expertise.
In addition, Wilson was world head of Innovation and Advanced Technology at Kaiser Permanente, accountable for data-driven analytical applications.
Outside of the insurance coverage area, Wilson served as chief knowledge officer of Citigroup and world head of Decision Management, accountable for spearheading new analytical capabilities companywide. As govt vp, Chief Data Scientist of L Brands, an American style retailer, Wilson led a number of transformational data-oriented initiatives.
Wilson at the moment sits on Equifax’s board of administrators, serving on the Audit Committee and Technology Committee.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Appoints Cook to Lead IronHealth
Dennis Cook has been appointed president, IronHealth, Global Risk Solutions North America, which presents specialty healthcare legal responsibility and medical cease loss merchandise.
Cook joined Liberty Mutual 4 years in the past. Most not too long ago, he served as IronHealth’s Chief Liability Officer, the place he efficiently led an operation with $220 million in gross written premiums. Prior to becoming a member of Liberty Mutual, Cook was at AIG.
He succeeds Lainie Dorneker, who was named IronHealth president in 2018 and is now head of healthcare at Bowhead Specialty in Miami.
In addition to Cook, Liberty Mutual has appointed Robert Hatcher as chief underwriting officer, Stop Loss. Hatcher will report back to Cook and lead Liberty Mutual’s medical cease loss providing.