Blanch Appointed President of Florida Flood Insurer TypTap

June 7, 2016

HCI Group, Inc. (HCI) has appointed Ted Blanch as president of TypTap Insurance Company, HCI’s new online insurance company.

Blanch brings years of industry experience to TypTap, which offers an online platform to quote and bind residential flood insurance policies in Florida.

As president, Blanch will oversee the development and growth of TypTap. His responsibilities include driving sales, establishing reinsurance partnerships and overseeing the strategic direction and expansion of the company.

Most recently, Blanch was a partner with Advocate Reinsurance Partners, an intermediary services firm. Prior to that, he founded and ran Ted Blanch & Associates, an insurance and reinsurance consulting firm providing professional analysis, expert witness and arbitration services, reinsurance portfolio analysis, and executive management consulting.

Prior to that Blanch was with E.W. Blanch Co., a reinsurance brokerage firm, serving as chief executive officer from 1977 to 2001. E.W. Blanch Co. became the third largest international reinsurance broker and the world’s largest independent reinsurance broker.

TypTap Insurance Co. is a Florida-based property insurance company and a wholly owned subsidiary of HCI Group, Inc.

HCI Group, Inc. business activities include homeowners insurance, reinsurance, real estate and information technology. The company’s largest subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., is a provider of property and casualty insurance in the state of Florida.

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Topics Florida Carriers Flood Reinsurance

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