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Brown & Brown Broker Jason Flaxbeard Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Jason Flaxbeard, Alternative Risk Leader, Brown & Brown, Greenwood Village, Colo. Problem-solving is all in a day’s work for Jason Flaxbeard. When waste management firm Recology came to him, it was struggling to monitor the performance of the various coverages within its captive. Flaxbeard recommended looking at each one separately. Going back 10 years, he… View Article
Captives.Insure Broker Nate Reznicek Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Nate Reznicek, President & Principal Consultant, Captives.Insure Convenience store operator Spinx Companies’ captives were in a bad place. The previous structure was unfit for its purpose, and a degrading experience with its captive manager necessitated an immediate change. Enter troubleshooter Nate Reznicek, who was brought in to completely redesign the migration of the firm’s captives… View Article
Gallagher Broker Justin Felker Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Justin Felker, Area Vice President, Gallagher, Greenville, S.C. A key benefit of captives is their ability to lower insurance premiums. That’s something Justin Felker also has a track record of helping companies to achieve. For Warehouse Services’ September 1 renewal, he fully marketed all aspects of its casualty/captive program and 15-year captive relationship with its… View Article
Woodruff Sawyer Broker Lauri Floresca Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Lauri Floresca, Senior Vice President, Management Liability, Woodruff Sawyer Getting appropriate insurance coverage can be difficult, particularly if you’re one of the largest companies in the world. That was exactly the challenge facing Meta’s D&O program. By early 2022, Meta — which had incurred several major claims since its initial public offering in 2012 and,… View Article
HUB International Broker Amy DeJong Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Amy DeJong, Vice President, Risk Management, HUB International Excess auto liability is one of the hardest markets right now. That’s what Norfolk Iron and Metal discovered during its latest insurance renewal, which threatened to bring about a significant rate increase for its transportation fleet. When the company approached Amy DeJong about the problem, she immediately… View Article
Marsh McLennan Agency Broker Patrick Miller Recognized as a 2023 Captives Power Broker
Patrick Miller, Senior Client Executive, Marsh McLennan Agency Even with an exceptional loss history, companies may face difficulty in securing the right coverage at an affordable price in certain markets. That was Rainey Used Cars’ recent experience. As one of the largest used automobile dealers in the Southeast, it has sought to capitalize on its… View Article
Gallagher Broker Cameron Boots Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
Cameron Boots, Area Vice President, Gallagher Cameron Boots might just be the country’s leading expert on cranes. Before becoming a broker specializing in cranes, rigging and heavy-haul (serving 40 companies totaling nearly $30 million in annual premiums), Boots studied safety management. Today, he’s a certified crane and rigging inspector through the Crane Inspection Certification Board…. View Article
Newfront Broker Shantelle Cabir Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
Shantelle Cabir, Principal, Senior Vice President, Newfront It’s obvious that workplace injuries are a bad thing. Less obvious sometimes is what can be done about them. When Shantelle Cabir began working with Pacific Galvanizing, the company’s below-average safety record was driving its premiums up. She swiftly initiated a risk management and claims advocacy program to… View Article
USI Broker Brian Hunt Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
Brian Hunt, Vice President, Construction, USI Technology continues to change construction in ways that can be difficult to grasp — and to insure. As president, Americas, at Disperse — a construction management platform that uses machine learning to monitor the progress of large construction projects in near real-time — Brian Clarke found securing coverage for… View Article
Marsh Broker John K. Johnson Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
John K. Johnson, Managing Director, AFSB, Marsh To deliver an all-electric lineup of vehicles by 2035, General Motors needs batteries. Enter Ultium Cells, a joint venture between GM and LG that’s constructing three battery facilities — each between $2.2 and $3 billion — with plans for a fourth. Joining GM and LG in the Ultium… View Article
Marsh Broker Susannah Davis Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
Susannah Davis, Vice President, Client Executive, Marsh “There’s always a construction project in the pipeline,” said Bryan McGann, insurance and risk manager at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “There’s always at least one or two on the go.” But it was a major $86 million project that kept Susannah Davis on her toes in 2022…. View Article
HUB International Broker Stephanie Cliff Recognized as a 2023 Construction Power Broker
Stephanie Cliff, Senior Vice President, HUB International The construction market is tough at the best of times. In Oklahoma, home to violent winds and hailstorms, things can be even tougher. “Every year, it seems to get more and more difficult to place coverage,” said Cindy Johnson, Director of Finance & Investor Relations for the American… View Article
Oswald Companies Broker Lacy Rex Recognized as 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Lacy Rex, Vice President, Cyber Strategic Leader, Oswald Companies Over the past few years, as markets have hardened and double-digit rate increases have become the norm, insureds have started to require year-round support from their cyber insurers. Brokers need to work the markets to ensure their clients have adequate coverage at competitive prices in the… View Article
Marsh Broker Payal Patel Recognized as a 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Payal Patel, Northeast Zone Team Leader, Cyber Practice, Marsh When carriers all presented war exclusions for one of cyber insurance broker Payal Patel’s clients, she jumped into action. She worked with the carriers to develop policy language that her client felt protected their interests and that they could accept — even in the face of… View Article
Aon Broker Kathleen Lewis Recognized as a 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Kathleen Lewis, Assistant Vice President & Team Leader, Aon There’s a hard market, and then there’s a 300% premium price increase after coming off an 18-month policy. That’s what one of Kathleen Lewis’ clients faced. Lewis helped the global firm find the capacity it needed at an acceptable price. She worked with London, Bermuda and… View Article
Aon Broker Carrie Yang Recognized as a 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Carrie Yang, Vice President, Team Leader, Chicago When a large manufacturer was on the brink of losing the property damage coverage embedded in its policy, broker Carrie Yang stepped in to ensure it had the financial protection it needed. The entity needs to ensure a specific type of furnace used as part of its manufacturing… View Article
Lockton Broker Taylor Bennett Recognized as a 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Taylor Bennett, VP, Team Lead, Cyber Technology Practice, Lockton Personalized video-sharing startup Cameo came to Taylor Bennett with a set of unique cyber exposures. Cameo’s online service allows people to purchase personalized messages from celebrities — a video from Chuck Norris wishing you luck in a job interview, say — and gift them to friends… View Article
Aon Broker Jennifer Ebeling Recognized as a 2023 Cyber Power Broker
Jennifer Ebeling, Vice President, Aon Thoroughness is one word that came to mind when clients described cyber insurance broker Jennifer Ebeling. “She just knows the market really, really well. [She leaves] no stone unturned,” one client said. “You give her some information and she’s almost completing a sentence for you.” Her deep understanding of cyber… View Article
HUB International Broker Cameron Jones Recognized as a 2023 Education Power Broker
Cameron Jones, SVP/Education Practice Leader, HUB International One of Cameron Jones’ clients fell victim to a credit card sampling scheme that ultimately cost over a hundred thousand dollars in credit card fees. “I worked on getting the charges reimbursed for over a year to no avail,” said the client. But “when our cyber policy would… View Article
Gallagher Broker Alexis Spoon Recognized as a 2023 Education Power Broker
Alexis Spoon, Area Vice President, Gallagher When Paul Murphy, director of business services, Sinclair Community College, and team sent out an RFP late Nov. 2021, they were optimistic they’d find someone great. The school has had “no property losses since the ‘80s,” so they knew they had a marketable story for carriers. They just needed… View Article