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Sollie Bartoe, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher When Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. merged last year with a health care system, its master group medical practice liability policy was ready for the new physicians. That’s because of Gallagher’s Sollie Barto. Under Baptist’s prior structure, claims could pit doctor against employer, said Rodney Betts, VP, finance…. View Article
Paula Bennett, Managing Director, Marsh Paula Bennett’s approach to client service is to partner with the client, conduct the necessary research to fully understand their business, and then become an extension of their team, acting with a sense of urgency to get to optimal outcome. “Paula quickly pulled a strong syndicate of insurance carriers to… View Article
James Bennett, Vice President, Aon “In the second half of this year, we had many changes. [We] spun-off one business segment into its own public entity,” said one risk manager.“ Then, just a few weeks later, we were purchased by a major global corporation. To meet all contractual requirements, we had to develop and obtain… View Article
Ken Banks, Area Senior Vice President, Gallagher Ken Banks has acted as Melissa Diaz’s colleague, competitor and broker for the last 12 years. When she signed on as risk services manager for the University of San Francisco, she said the transition was easy: Banks was already the university’s insurance broker. “He does more than act… View Article
Martyn Clark, Executive Director, Aon Four Seasons is among the hotel sector’s best-known names, but isn’t actually a hotel owner. Instead, the company manages owners’ assets and its group insurance policy. Four Seasons suffered a $300 million claim from last January’s California mudslides. Securing attractive terms for the 2018 renewal was a challenge for Martyn… View Article
Andy Bullock, Senior Vice President, Marsh When the owner of an oft-delayed project lost its owner-controlled insurance program, the project faced further delays and ballooned insurance costs. The owner gave Marsh’s Andy Bullock 45 days to bind $100 million of general liability limits covering all the project’s contractors and eight years of completed operations coverage… View Article
Frank Albrecht, Area Vice President, Gallagher Diversity is Frank Albrecht’s key strength. One day he can be dealing with complex international cross border matters and the next handling issues affecting local construction and haulage firms. Albrecht helped one client, petroleum consultancy DeGolyer & MacNaughton, reduce its Russian Federation taxes by 25 percent after placing the… View Article
Jodie DeVries, Senior Vice President, Marsh Power Brokers distinguish themselves by being more than insurance salespeople; they are true client advocates whose work enables companies to achieve their goals. When Graceland Fruit made an acquisition early in 2018, for example, the company had enough pieces of the puzzle to fit together on the operational side… View Article
Michael Calhoun, Managing Director, Aon Constriction in the aerospace sector was a common theme this year. “Major carriers have left,” said one director of insurance. “We had a very difficult time this year, trying to get a renewal with 65 percent of the previous market capacity left out there. Michael was able to go to… View Article
Frank Baer, Agency President, AssuredPartners When a struggling captive group approached Frank Baer in 2011 to audit and produce a report on its program, little did he know that seven years later he would have turned around its fortunes. The group was having problems with the structure of its rent-a-captive program that it had only… View Article
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