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People Moves: Wateridge Promotes Dorris; Alliant Names Barlow, Doerfler Senior Vice Presidents in Oregon

Wateridge Insurance/Assured Partners of California promoted John Dorris to president of the San Diego, Calif., operations. Dorris’ role will be to lead the agency to key financial goals, recruiting talent and leading corporate initiatives. Dorris has became the chief operating …

People Moves: Pancoast Moves to Ironshore E&S; PwC’s Coggins Leads Actuaries; McLean Joins Lockton from Willis

Pancoast to Head Ironshore’s E&S Primary Casualty Adam Pancoast has been named to lead the excess and surplus Primary Casualty business of Ironshore, a Liberty Mutual company. As national manager, E&S Casualty, Pancoast, who is based in Atlanta, is responsible …

People Moves: New Hires at McGriff, Lockton Financial Services

McGriff Hires New York’s Carille to Environmental Practice as Vice President McGriff hired Daniel Carille to its environmental practice as vice president and lead environmental marketer. Based in New York City, Carille specializes in environmental risk strategy and development and …

People Moves: New Hires at RT Specialty, Alliant

RT Specialty Names Neary to Environmental and Construction Professional Practice RT Specialty named Rachael Neary as an account administrator in its environmental and construction professional practice (RT ECP). In this role, she will work with senior management to further the …

People Moves: Markel CATCO’s Moore and Aon’s Boon Join Lockton Re; Fidelis Names Lancashire’s Russell as Head of Marine

Lockton Re Hires Moore, Boon for Non-Marine Retrocession, Property Specialty Lockton Re, the global reinsurance business of the largest privately held independent insurance broker, announced that Simon Moore and James Boon have joined the Non-Marine Retrocession and Property Specialty division …

Howden Broking Launches New Zealand Operations

Howden, the international insurance broker, announces the launch of operations in New Zealand with Howden Broking and Howden Care — its local workplace claims management, rehabilitation and wellness business. The launch reinforces Howden’s ambitious growth plans in the region since …

New York DFS Announces New Climate Change Division, Appoints Dr. Chen to Lead

In its latest move to address the effects of climate change, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced a new climate risk division and appointed Dr. Nina Chen as its executive deputy superintendent. Dr. Chen, DFS’ inaugural director …

Vantage Names AXA XL’s Blanco CEO of Insurance

Bermuda-based Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. has appointed Alex Blanco as CEO of Insurance to lead the growth and development of its insurance business. Blanco is a seasoned Insurance professional with over 25 years of industry experience across professional and specialty …

WTW’s Smith to Lead Chaucer’s Marine Specialty Division; NFP Names Beauchamp VP Commercial Lines; Insurtech BOXX Hires Steptoe as Global Chief Product Officer

This edition of International People Moves details appointments in at insurer Chaucer (in the UK), the broker NFP (in Quebec) and the insurtech BOXX (in Switzerland). A summary of these new hires follows here Chaucer Appoints Smith From WTW to …

People Moves: New Hires at RT Specialty, Optisure Risk Partners

Koch Joins Environmental and Construction Professional Practice at RT Specialty Jenna Koch joined the environmental and construction professional (ECP) practice of RT Specialty as an account administrator. In this role, she is responsible for helping the team’s senior executives manage …