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Aon Broker Cynthia Fee Recognized as a 2020 Utilities Power Broker
Cynthia Fee, Senior Casualty Placement Specialist, Aon Even in the U.S. many people tend to think of the Western states as similar to each other, so it was a big challenge explaining to underwriters overseas that Colorado has different utility risk profiles than California and that Wyoming differs from Washington. Aon’s Cynthia Fee succeeds at… View Article
Marsh Broker John Shannon Moyer Recognized as a 2020 Utilities Power Broker
John Shannon Moyer, Senior Vice President, Marsh Clients of Marsh’s John Moyer appreciate his exceptional analytic skills. “In 2019, we and our peer utility companies ran into the first hard market in quite some time due to the recent California wildfires and the impact of the 2018 Massachusetts gas explosion,” said one senior manager of… View Article
Marsh Broker Clifton Chan Recognized as a 2020 Utilities Power Broker
Clifton Chan, Senior Vice President, Marsh For one of Clifton Chan’s clients, timing was everything. ”We have a complex program and had a loss right before renewal, causing the insurers to pull back quotes,” said the risk manager at a major urban utility. “We were deep in negotiations with our lead insurers and on our… View Article
Aon Broker Brian DeBruin Recognized as a 2020 Utilities Power Broker
Brian DeBruin, Managing Director, Aon In a hardening market, every insured and every broker is scrambling for an angle. Those utilities that have losses face a triple threat: the loss and claim itself; the effect of their loss history on premiums and terms and conditions at renewal; and the importance of negotiated claims for lost… View Article
RHSB Broker Doug Jones Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Doug Jones, Principal, RHSB A fintech client that is in aggressive “buy vs. build” mode needed to conduct a thorough due diligence process in its risk management program. It turned to Doug Jones, who provided thorough due diligence analysis for each target acquisition with a report designed to address the client’s risk management priorities. Each… View Article
Marsh Broker Deepak Adappa Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Deepak Adappa, Senior Vice President, Marsh One of Deepak Adappa’s clients, a large technology organization, was going through its D&O renewal in the face of a transitioning market. It had some issues. One of which was a historical D&O “matter” that was working its way through the towers. Adding to the troubles was a recent… View Article
Aon Broker Peter Holz Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Peter Holz, Senior Broker, Aon Aon’s Peter Holz works in a very challenging area of commercial insurance: intellectual property. The space is difficult due to limited capacity, data paucity and a knowledge shortage on the topic by commercial insurance brokers. Holz has been instrumental in helping to increase IP insurance marketplace capacity. In just one… View Article
Aon Broker Josh Collier Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Josh Collier, Associate Director, Aon Josh Collier keeps his customer-facing strategy to the point: He explains the process up front and clearly lays out the steps necessary to reach client goals/objectives. Collier’s property claims are often described as “unplanned renovations.” And while home renovations can be worked around, a thriving business can lose hundreds of… View Article
Aon’s Galo Santana Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Galo Santana, Insurance Broker, Aon Sports apparel maker TegraGlobal was facing a six-figure increase on its property policy and needed its broker to get creative. Aon’s Galo Santana’s solution? He bifurcated the company’s domestic and international exposures, lined up a carrier to cover each and saved his client more than $100,000 on the expiring policy…. View Article
Marsh Broker Scott Francis Recognized as a 2020 Technology Power Broker
Scott Francis, Finpro Practice Leader, Marsh To better familiarize himself with the companies he helps insure, Marsh’s Scott Francis reads their every press release and listens to their earnings calls. He also utilizes as many external sources as possible to further his knowledge of the markets they operate in. “This helps me understand the full… View Article
Gallagher Broker Michele Centeno Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Power Broker
Michele Centeno, Senior Vice President, Gallagher Some brokers simply haven’t worked through a hard market or don’t have the skill set to navigate when capacity is removed and premiums go up. But luckily for CC Industries, Inc, which operates within Henry Crown and Company, Michele Centeno’s experience is just one of the reasons they made… View Article
Aon Broker Seamus Durkin Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Power Broker
Seamus Durkin, Vice President, Aon Due to an increasing number of nuclear verdicts, the liability in the trucking industry is more volatile than ever. Excess markets are suffering through increased rates and lowered capacity. For companies that want to purchase in excess, what is one to do? Easy; call Seamus Durkin. “We buy in large… View Article
Marsh Broker Owen Oakley Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Power Broker
Owen Oakley, Senior Vice President, Marsh A problem for risk professionals working in industries that involve more than one business sector is that it’s hard to find well-versed experts. For a company that utilizes artificial intelligence and trucking, the risk exposure speaks for itself. Thankfully, it had Owen Oakley on its side. “He not only… View Article
Aon Broker Sanju Rajan Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Power Broker
Sanju Rajan, Property Risk Broker, Aon One of the biggest challenges for a broker is portraying a client’s risk profile to underwriters in a way that positively affects the market and secures satisfactory rates. Sanju Rajan is up for that challenge. “He knows insurance, underwriters, brokers, markets and how things move. He has a technical… View Article
EPIC Insurance Broker Allen Amos Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Power Broker
Allen Amos, Senior Principal, EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Due to the rise of overnight-shipping, subcontracted food delivery services and an overall higher number of people on the road, the trucking industry is riskier than ever. No one knows this better than Allen Amos. The former underwriter and active member of the California Trucking Association… View Article
Beecher Carlson Broker Scott Buchholz Recognized as a 2020 Transportation Broker
Scott Buchholz, National Casualty Practice Leader, Beecher Carlson As they say in entertainment, the show must go on. The same goes for trucking. For this particular entertainment company, its transportation broker Scott Buchholz gets the job done. Feld Entertainment Inc., which owns traveling productions such as Disney On Ice, Disney Live!, Monster Jam, Supercross, Sesame… View Article
Aon Broker Carol Murphy Recognized as a 2020 Workers’ Comp Power Broker
Carol Murphy, Managing Director and Casualty Growth Leader, Aon While staffing companies typically face steep workers’ comp challenges, the leadership team of one such company knew it could do better. Last year, the firm, one of the largest staffing companies in the country, awarded its workers’ comp business to Aon’s Carol Murphy, and it hasn’t… View Article
Marsh Broker Brian Gauss Recognized as a 2020 Workers’ Comp Power Broker
Brian Gauss, Senior Vice President, Marsh Clients of Brian Gauss say he’s a full-service broker who exceeds expectations in every area, from helping to reduce claims frequency and costs to resolving tricky claims. “Brian is the best of the best of the best,” said one risk manager, who places a high value on Gauss’s background… View Article
PRISM Insurance Group Broker Ettie Schoor Recognized as a 2020 Workers’ Comp Power Broker
Ettie Schoor, President, PRISM Insurance Group Health care organizations appreciate partners that understand the risks their employees face every day. That’s why clients of Ettie Schoor are eager to tell you how thankful they are for the partnership. Schoor has extensive experience helping health care companies overhaul their risk profiles, rein in claims, get employees… View Article
Marsh Broker Dennis Tierney Recognized as a 2020 Workers’ Comp Power Broker
Dennis Tierney, National Director of WC Claims, Marsh For much of the past year, Dennis Tierney has been focused on helping clients look inward — reviewing claims and identifying cost and utilization patterns, looking for hidden opportunities to help them work smarter, not harder. In each case, engaging clients in robust claim reviews and targeting… View Article