BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI), today announced that it has established a new office in Dublin and appointed Cormac McNamara as Property & Casualty Manager, BHSI Ireland.
“Cormac will build our local team and lead our efforts to bring all of BHSI’s Southern European underwriting capabilities to Ireland,” said Tom Bolt, President, UK and Southern Europe. “We are excited to further expand our geographic footprint in the region as we steadily grow our underwriting capabilities as well.”
Cormac comes to BHSI with 24 years of experience in the UK and Ireland insurance markets. Cormac spent the last six years at MS Amlin/Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, where he held a variety of underwriting positions, most recently Ireland Underwriting & Distribution Manager. Before Mitsui Sumitomo, Cormac was Commercial Insurance Manager, UK Region and Ireland, at Chubb Insurance Company of Europe, and held several other underwriting positions at Chubb prior to beginning his career at QBE Europe.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in European Studies (Insurance & German) from the University of Limerick.
Cormac can be reached at Cormac.mcnamara@bhspecialty.com. BHSI’s new Dublin office is located at:
49 Upper Mount Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
In Europe, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (“BHSI”) will operate as part of Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance Limited (“BHIIL”), an incorporated England and Wales limited liability company, Registration Number 3230337 and Registered Office of 4th Floor, 8 Fenchurch Place, London EC3M 4AJ, United Kingdom. BHIIL is an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (www.bhspecialty.com), which provides commercial property, marine, casualty, healthcare professional liability, executive and professional lines, surety, travel, programs, medical stop loss and homeowners insurance. BHSI and BHIIL are part 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, Asheville, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Irvine, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Ramon, Seattle, Stevens Point, Auckland, Brisbane, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Macau, Melbourne, Singapore, Sydney and Toronto. For more information, contact info@bhspecialty.com.
