XL Group has added several underwriters to its Dallas office with the addition of global risk management, construction primary casualty, and inland marine underwriting experience.
Wayne Speeg, the regional leader for XL Group's South Central region, explained that the Texas economy “continues to expand with job growth across a wide range of industries. This growth means that more companies have more assets – property, employees, and sales – that require appropriate insurance protection and more risk management attention. To help, we continue to build out a seasoned regional underwriting team that gives our brokers and clients throughout the Southwest easy and personal access to some of the best underwriting talent in our industry.”
XL Group's newest insurance underwriters include:
- Kristen Hough who joined XL Group's marine underwriting team as senior marine underwriter for the South Central region. Ms. Hough helps brokers and clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana address inland marine insurance needs including motor truck cargo, ocean marine, contractors' equipment, and builder's risk insurance coverages. With more than 14 years of inland marine underwriting experience, she joined XL Group from Travelers.
- Erwin Montoya, senior underwriter in XL Group's global risk management business transferred from XL Group's Los Angeles office to Dallas. Mr. Montoya assists brokers and US-based businesses with primary casualty programs that address their general liability, commercial auto, and workers' compensation insurance needs both domestically and abroad. Prior to joining XL Group in 2012, Mr. Montoya, who has more than a decade of underwriting experience, worked with ACE Risk Management.
- Bryan Stevenson joined XL Group as underwriting manager to lead XL Group's construction primary casualty operation in the region. This operation provides tailored primary casualty insurance programs including commercial auto, general liability, and workers' compensation programs for construction firms. Mr. Stevenson joined XL Group from Old Republic, where he served as senior vice president of its construction program group.
- Lindsay Frantz joined XL Group's excess casualty underwriting team as senior underwriter for the South Central region. Ms. Frantz helps brokers and clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana with umbrella liability and excess liability coverage domestically. With over 10 years of experience, she joined XL Group from Ironshore and previously Travelers.
Victoria Spears
Victoria Prussen Spears is senior vice president of Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a law firm marketing communications consulting company. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Spears was an attorney at a leading New York City law firm before joining Meyerowitz Communications. She may be contacted at [email protected].