Market Moves - 22 June 2015

Insurers

Allianz
Allianz Commercial has promoted Paul Higham to the position of property account manager. In his new role, he will be responsible for managing and developing the commercial property account in line with the division’s business plan. Additionally, he will be focusing on improving segmentation and pricing capability within the competitive mid-corporate sector. Since joining the insurer in 2002, Higham has held a number of positions including property and casualty underwriter, business developer, senior casualty underwriter and most recently, SME underwriting manager. He can be contacted on 01483 552 398    or paul.higham@allianz.co.uk.

Advent
Lloyd’s insurer Advent has hired Perry Bowen as claims adjuster for its marine division. Bowen is a multi-class adjuster with a focus on marine insurance, bringing more than two decades of specialist claims experience to his new role. He began his career in the Lloyd’s specialist claims unit (later Equitas) in 1994. He joined Travelers in 2003 where he focused on property and liability claims, before being appointed claims manager for Arch Insurance Europe in 2010.

Novae
Specialist listed Lloyd’s insurer Novae Group has promoted Ross Louden to deputy divisional head of casualty and Terry Allen to head of professional indemnity. Louden, who joined the company in 2006, will also remain in his current position of head of financial institutions. Allen joined Novae in 2003 and has played a key role in growing and diversifying Novae’s PI offering, both domestically and internationally. They can be reached at rlouden@novae.com and tallen@novae.com


Brokers

Arthur J Gallagher
Paul Cousins has joined Arthur J Gallagher as managing director of specialty within its binding authority and facility. Cousins is currently global head of strategy and business development at Aon Benfield Fac and will join Gallagher later in the year. He has been working in the insurance sector for nearly 40 years.


Trade Bodies

LMA
Geoff White, underwriting manager for cyber, technology and media at Barbican Insurance Group, has been elected chairman of the newly-created Cyber Business Panel at the Lloyd’s Market Association. His deputy chair will be Tom Allen, head of technology liability and data protection indemnity at Aspen. The Cyber Business Panel has 21 members drawn from syndicates writing cyber business at Lloyd’s. Its role is to identify issues of interest or concern to Lloyd’s underwriters relating to cyber risk. It will also assist in revising wordings and will respond to requests for information from the Lloyd’s underwriting community.


Loss adjusters

Charles Taylor
Edward Creasy has been appointed chairman at Charles Taylor, succeeding Rupert Robson. Creasy was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Charles Taylor on 1 January 2014 and has had a long career in the London Market Insurance industry. He was formerly chairman of the Kiln Group. He currently
holds a number of other senior non-executive directorships. He is a member of the Council of Lloyd’s Market Supervision and Review Committee and was previously a director of the Lloyd’s Franchise Board.

Woodgate & Clark
Woodgate & Clark has hired David McKinnon, Rob Ingham and James Brownlie as loss adjusters. McKinnon began his career in 1982 and spent two years working as a catastrophe adjuster in New Zealand. Ingham joins from McLarens and has had spells with Cunningham Lindsey and GAB Robins. Brownlie has worked for Cunningham Lindsey, Davies and Crawford & Co. McKinnon can be contacted on 01744 734 367    and d.mckinnon@woodgate-clark.co.uk, Ingham on 01732 520 265     and r.ingham@woodgate-clark.co.uk and Brownlie on 01786 406 466    or j.brownlie@woodgate-clark.co.uk