Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Names North America Casualty Leaders

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced leadership moves in its North America casualty business.

• Matt Hale is now Head of U.S. Casualty Underwriting Operations. In this new role, he will oversee BHSI’s regional casualty underwriting teams across the U.S. and work closely with Galan Riley, Head of Casualty, Canada, to coordinate BHSI’s North American casualty strategies. Matt is based in Chicago and can be reached at matt.hale@bhspecialty.com.
  
  
  
  
• Marcie Stephan is Head of Casualty, U.S. Central Region. She will oversee BHSI’s casualty underwriting teams, except construction, in the Central U.S. She is based in Chicago and can be reached at marcie.stephan@bhspecialty.com.
  
  
  
  
• John Roe is Head of North American Construction, including Construction Casualty, Construction Professional Liability, and Homebuilders Liability. He will oversee BHSI’s U.S. construction underwriting team and support the build out of construction casualty field operations. He will also work closely with Galan Riley, aligning our U.S. and Canadian construction casualty strategies. John is based in New York and can be reached at john.roe@bhspecialty.com.

“BHSI takes great pride in building long-term relationships with our casualty customers and brokers,” said Kathy Reid, Head of Casualty, North America, BHSI. “With these appointments we are drawing on our deep bench of talent as we scale up to respond to market demand for solutions supported by our CLAIMS IS OUR PRODUCT philosophy and stellar financial strength.”

BHSI offers a full line of casualty coverages, including primary general liability, primary products/completed operations liability, lead umbrella and excess casualty, transportation, and construction and environmental coverages for a wide range of North American risks.

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (www.bhspecialty.com) provides commercial property, casualty, healthcare professional liability, executive and professional lines, transactional liability, surety, marine, travel, programs, accident and health, medical stop loss, homeowners, and multinational insurance. The actual and final terms of coverage for all product lines may vary. It underwrites on the paper of Berkshire Hathaway's National Indemnity group of insurance companies, which hold financial strength ratings of A++ from AM Best and AA+ from Standard & Poor's. Based in Boston, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbia, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Irvine, Los Angeles, New York, Plymouth Meeting, San Francisco, San Ramon, Seattle, Stevens Point, Adelaide, Auckland, Barcelona, Brisbane, Brussels, Calgary, Cologne, Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Lyon, Macau, Madrid, Manchester, Melbourne, Milan, Munich, Paris, Perth, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Toronto, and Zurich.

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