Catlin Group Limited, the international specialty property/casualty insurer and reinsurer, announces that it has strengthened its market-leading London aviation underwriting team with the addition of Richard Power and Mark Stanley.
Richard Power will join Catlin on 1 August as a senior underwriter and head of the airline underwriting team in London. He most recently was airline practice leader at C.V. Starr & Company and was previously an underwriter with Global Aerospace (formerly BAIG and BAIC). He has an MSc in Risk Management and Insurance from Cass Business School in London and is also ACII qualified.
Mark Stanley will join Catlin on 16 September as a senior underwriter and head of aviation products and airport underwriting in London. He has been an underwriter for Global Aerospace for more than 20 years. He is ACII qualified.
Catlin also announces that Paul Cooper, currently a class underwriter with Catlin Guernsey, will join the Catlin aviation team in London in August as a class underwriter specialising in airline accounts.
In addition, Fiona Hodgson has joined Catlin as a senior aviation claims adjuster in London. She most recently held claims positions at XL Insurance and previously worked at Global Aerospace and Charles Taylor Consulting.
Alain Burguiere, European business group leader for Catlin Aerospace, said:
“I am pleased to welcome Richard Power and Mark Stanley to Catlin’s London aviation underwriting team. Richard and Mark are highly respected underwriters in the marketplace, and their addition to our existing London aviation underwriting team – which includes Julia Milton and soon Paul Cooper – will further strengthen Catlin’s position as one of the world’s leading aviation insurers. The addition of Fiona Hodgson to our aviation claims team will increase the existing high levels of service that Catlin offers to its aviation policyholders. The full team at Catlin will be in place by September.”
Catlin is a major international aviation and aerospace insurer and reinsurer, with gross aerospace-related premium volume of approximately $400 million in 2008. Catlin currently underwrites aviation insurance through subsidiaries in London, continental Europe, Guernsey, Canada, Asia, Australia and the United States.
