BHSI Announces U.S. Retail General Property Leadership

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced several leadership promotions as it scales up its U.S. retail general property organization into four distinct regions: Northeast, Southeast, Central, and West.

“Our U.S. property business has seen robust growth as customers and brokers have responded to our customer-first service, financial strength and CLAIMS IS OUR PRODUCT approach,” said Greg Freeman, Head of Property, North America, BHSI. “As we expand our regional retail general property structure, we can better leverage our depth of talent and expertise and further enhance our service and responsiveness.”

• Scott Johnson has been named Head of U.S. Retail General Property. In this role, he will oversee all U.S. retail general property regions and will continue to lead underwriting of BHSI’s BH FastCAT parametric insurance. Scott joined BHSI in 2013 and was previously SVP, Eastern Region Leader. He is based in New York and can be reached at scott.johnson@bhspecialty.com

The U.S. retail general property platform will be led by the following talented individuals:

• Alison McVeigh Senior Vice President, Head of Retail General Property, Northeast Region. She can be reached at alison.mcveigh@bhspecialty.com

• Jen Rubin Senior Vice President, Head of Retail General Property, Central Region. She can be reached at Jennifer.rubin@bhspecialty.com. Jen succeeds Brian Cummins who will be taking on the role of Customer & Broker Engagement leader for the U.S. Northern Central region.

• Cristin Grogan Senior Vice President, Head of Retail General Property, Southeast Region. She can be reached at cristin.grogan@bhspecialty.com.

• Manny Dewani Senior Vice President, Head of Retail General Property, West Region. He can be reached at manoj.dewani@bhspecialty.com.

In the U.S., the company has a broad appetite for U.S. retail property risks, with a particular focus on real estate, financial institutions, public entities, hospitals and healthcare facilities, schools, colleges and universities, and manufacturing and retail facilities.

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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