Third Coast Underwriters Expands in Gulf Region

Third Coast Underwriters, which provides workers’ compensation insurance for underserved markets that have complex risks, is expanding facilities in Louisiana and Texas, and adding the availability of workers’ compensation for oil and gas and United States Longshore and Harbor Workers (USL&H) operations.

With this expansion, the company is adding experienced staff in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La., and Houston, Texas. These new staff members include:

• Johnny Clebert – senior underwriting technical advisor, based in Baton Rouge. Clebert will cover multiple states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He has more than 18 years of USL&H experience, with much of that as a specialty underwriter working national companies in the oil and gas, energy, maritime, and construction industries.
• Aaron Hebert – senior loss control consultant, based in New Orleans. Hebert has more than 30 years of experience in safety, risk management and loss control. His experience includes working for two large insurance companies and he has had loss control responsibilities for many clients in the Gulf Coast region. He has a strong shipbuilding, manufacturing and oil and gas background and has been successful in developing comprehensive safety programs within private industry.
• Bob Hamilton – director of Underwriting – Gulf Specialty, based in Houston. Hamilton brings more than 33 years of commercial underwriting experience to Third Coast Underwriters, and has worked in Texas since 1987. He has also worked for several major carriers, including monoline workers’ compensation carriers. Hamilton holds CPCU, ARM, AU and AAI designations.

The Gulf region facilities will also offer the full range of specialty workers’ compensation products offered in the original Midwest office.

Third Coast Underwriters is backed by Accident Fund Holdings Inc.

Source: Accident Fund Holdings

Topics Texas Workers' Compensation Underwriting