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Marsh Broker Michael Marcum Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Michael Marcum, Senior Claim Advisor, Marsh When food and beverage ingredients provider Ingredion approached Michael Marcum to help resolve a property claim, he knew he had his work cut out. To start with, his client had been dealing with a pending property claim arising from severe wind damage to its manufacturing plant in Iowa since… View Article
Marsh Broker Paul Simms Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Paul Simms Senior Vice President, Marsh When a prominent U.S. airline client approached Paul Simms to determine the right warranty and London lead insurer, he needed all of his expertise and tact to deliver on the brief. Seeking out leaders with a deep understanding of the aviation industry and his client, the financial strength to… View Article
Aon Broker Maxim Tabourel Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Maxim Tabourel, U.S. Casualty Broker, Aon Maxim Tabourel’s client MGM Resorts struggled with placing its liability renewal ever since the 2017 Las Vegas shooting at Mandalay Bay, which resulted in an $850 million settlement. London carriers had become increasingly cautious about providing capacity for the risk, forcing the client to buy lower insurance limits at… View Article
Marsh Broker Lacy Benson Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Lacy Benson, Senior Vice President, Marsh No challenge is too big for Lacy Benson. That is just as well, as her client, Gate Petroleum, spans multiple industries, from fuel hauling, car washes and convenience stores to hospitality, real estate and construction — each with a different risk profile. Additionally, a large portion of its assets… View Article
EPIC Broker Elizabeth Nguyen Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Elizabeth Nguyen, Principal/National Risk Management and Southern California Casualty Leader, EPIC Elizabeth Nguyen’s client’s primary casualty carrier had advised at binding that its rates would at least double at the next renewal due to its challenging risk profile and loss history. If allowed to renew at that rate, it would have been replicated through its… View Article
Marsh Broker Ana Rocheleau Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Ana Rocheleau, Claims Advocacy Professional, Marsh Workers’ compensation claims can be notoriously tricky to negotiate. That’s where Ana Rocheleau comes in. One of her clients had an injured employee who filed three claims relating to his lower back and underwent several surgical interventions; another surgery is being recommended. The carrier opined that the employee would… View Article
Aon Broker Christopher Chao Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Christopher Chao, Senior Vice President, Aon Business travel has become one of the biggest risks in recent years — there was COVID-19, then the ongoing war in Ukraine and the current Middle East conflict. One of Christopher Chao’s clients needed coverage for travel in an excluded war risk area. So Chao came up with a… View Article
Insurance Office of America Broker John Averill Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
John Averill, Vice President, Senior Broker, Insurance Office of America True specialist brokers in the aviation space are a rare breed. That’s why John Averill is worth his weight in gold. When the plane of one of his clients — Priority Jet’s Cessna Citations — was hit on the ramp during an overnight stay at… View Article
Aon Broker Cabot Lyman Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Cabot Lyman, Senior Vice President, Aon Working on complex accounts is second nature to Cabot Lyman. That was evidenced at the February 1, 2023, renewals, where Lyman tried to place coverage for her client Bath & Body Works, a chain with more than 1,800 stores in the U.S. and Canada and 440 international franchised locations…. View Article
EPIC Broker Laura Tesoriero Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Laura Tesoriero, Managing Principal, EPIC Laura Tesoriero has made a reputation for herself for coming up with creative ways of looking at an organization’s risk profile and delivering the best insurance solution. This skill came into its own for one client that was facing punitive terms from its carrier if the company decided not to… View Article
Marsh Broker Chad Barnes Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Chad Barnes, SVP, Consulting Director, Marsh Any risk improvement or savings that can be made makes a big difference for an individual or company, particularly for large retail chains such as Walmart. That’s exactly what Chad Barnes was able to achieve when he took over as the company’s third-party global risk engineering and loss control… View Article
Aon Broker Jennifer Mula Recognized as a 2024 At-Large Power Broker
Jennifer Mula, Broker, Aon Property insurance is one of the hardest markets right now. Rates have been on the increase every quarter, even more so for catastrophe-exposed accounts and those that have historically sustained large losses, driven by rising reinsurance costs and inflationary pressures. Jennifer Mula’s client United Rentals felt this particularly acutely after using… View Article
AssuredPartners Broker Reid Clary Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Reid Clary, VP, Agribusiness, AssuredPartners “As part of the ag industry, we’ve been watching the pool of insurance companies decline to less than a handful,” said Barb Koehnke, CFO of Maplehurst Farms. After its current insurer announced that it was leaving the already-difficult ag space, “there are two avenues where Reid Clary has been extremely… View Article
WTW Broker Jaclyn Perryman Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Jaclyn Perryman, Casualty Broker, WTW Imagine you’re on a team of two that manages over 120 policies covering 300 subsidiaries (give or take four or five acquisitions a year) across 22 countries as an importer-exporter that distributes roughly 30,000 products across the U.S. You’d need someone like Jaclyn Perryman on your team. For Stacy Hastings,… View Article
Aon Broker Chris Hubbard Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Chris Hubbard, Director, Aon Two years ago, said Kathy McCarty, AVP of risk management at OSI Group, Chris Hubbard suggested she consider a security backed letter of credit. “We would use a surety bond to post their credit,” McCarty said, “which helps our balance sheet, because we’re not showing that debt on our balance sheet… View Article
Aon Broker Nathan Burror Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Nathan Burror, Vice President, Broker III When its incumbent non-renewed its entire program, said the former principal accounting officer of a rapidly expanding food manufacturer, “that kind of put us on our heels a little bit.” And it couldn’t have happened at a worse time: “The property market has just been soaring through the roof,”… View Article
Lockton Broker Phil Torpey Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Phil Torpey, Vice President, Senior Account Executive — Food, Agriculture and Beverage Practice, Lockton Syngenta is a multinational agricultural, chemical and seeds company doing business in roughly 90 countries, said John Burleigh, its head of corporate insurance. His relationship with Phil Torpey began about a year and a half ago. “He has exceeded expectations, to… View Article
AssuredPartners Broker Scott Aukes Recognized as a 2024 Agriculture Power Broker
Scott Aukes, President, Agribusiness, AssuredPartners Engineering out the risk is never a bad idea. “Like a lot of farmer cooperatives, we have a lot of aging concrete silos out there,” said Steve Nielsen, general counsel at Landus Cooperative. “And we had a loss in 2021. That was a big one — $30 million.” It’s the… View Article
Hylant Broker Anne Marie Towle Recognized as a 2024 Captives Power Broker
Anne Marie Towle, CEO, Global Risk and Captive Solutions, Hylant Facing a hard market and capacity constraints, Topco Associates, a member-owned cooperative of 45 grocery chains, needed to relieve financial pressure and leverage purchasing power for its members to drive savings and remain competitive. It called on Anne Marie Towle to deliver a solution. In… View Article
Insurance Office of America Broker Tony Spina Recognized as a 2024 Captives Power Broker
Tony Spina, Commercial Lines Producer, IOA Construction temp and staffing agency Tradeco Construction’s insurance was previously written directly by an underwriter. The problem, however, was that its coverage didn’t meet its specific needs. So the company approached Tony Spina to look at some options. After assessing Tradeco’s insurance requirements, Spina proposed switching to a captive… View Article