New office to support brokers in the South East.
Arista Insurance, the commercial lines underwriting operation, has opened a new office in St Albans to support brokers based in the City, northern Home Counties and East Anglia.
The existing Arista staff members who have formed the St Albans team are broker development manager, Alistair Body, and underwriters, Hasmita Zaveri and Paul Jones.
Arista has also boosted the office’s underwriting team with the appointments of Rachel Bryant as a senior underwriter and Liz McMahon, who both joined from RSA.
The team will report to the regional manager for the South East, Andy Wright. He said: “Alistair, Hasmita and Paul have been working with our brokers to develop the region for some time.
"Having achieved very pleasing business growth in the northern Home Counties and East Anglia, the need for a local physical base and a larger underwriting team has become increasingly apparent.”
He added: “Our new office and investment in additional experienced resource underlines Arista’s commitment to give our broker partners access to empowered decision makers. The local team will now enable us to continue growing the account in the area and establish the infrastructure to fortify our service, according to brokers’ needs.”
