Property facilities team to write lines including SME commercial combined

Canopius Group has set up a new UK property facilities underwriting team.

The new team will underwrite UK household, specialist property/ niche personal lines and SME commercial combined.

It will be led by Canopius divisional underwriter Stephen Snook. He will report into Canopius’s head of underwriting, UK retail, who has not been announced yet.

The rest of the team is:

  • Paul McBrearty, deputy divisional underwriter;
  • Vidia Bains, underwriter;
  • James Everett, underwriter.

Snook, McBrearty and Everett all join from JR Clare Underwriting Agencies, owned by rival Lloyd’s insurer Amlin. Bains joins from Brit.

Canopius chief executive of UK retail insurance Tim Rolfe said: “We have hand-picked a high quality team of experienced underwriters to form our new UK property facilities division. We are looking forward to them joining us and are confident they will build on Canopius’s successful track record in this class.”

As well as its direct underwriting portfolio, Canopius will still access business written by its former personal lines & property team through OIM Underwriting.

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