January 12, 2016 - Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed William Bell as senior vice president of Environmental, Mike Nukk as senior vice president of Marine, and Rick Niehaus as senior vice president of Energy & Construction. All three executives will be based in LIU’s New York City office and report to Michael Finnegan, chief underwriting officer for LIU’s U.S. operations.
“These appointments reflect LIU’s commitment to top talent and to growing U.S. operations through stronger collaboration across specialty lines, product innovation, and improved broker access,” said Finnegan. “We are proud of our existing bench strength and our ability to attract leading external candidates. Will, Mike and Rick represent the best mix of promoting from within and hiring externally and their combined years of experience will help them provide brokers with exceptional risk evaluation.”
William Bell is a proven senior executive who brings nearly 30 years of insurance industry experience to LIU. As Senior Vice President of U.S. Environmental, Mr. Bell has responsibility for contractor and professional services liability, fixed site pollution legal liability, contractors’ pollution liability, storage tank third party liability, and LIU’s Environmental Advantage product suite, which brings together in one policy: Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL), General Liability (GL), and Errors & Omissions (E&O).
Mike Nukk joined LIU in 2000 and relocated to London in 2009 where he developed and launched the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Marine strategy for Liberty Specialty Markets, Liberty Mutual’s specialty lines operation in London. His most recent position was Vice President, Marine Underwriting Manager EMEA. In his new role as Senior Vice President of Marine, Mr. Nukk will lead marine operations for LIU in the U.S. as well as have global product responsibility for LIU’s Marine line of business.
Rick Niehaus was most recently Senior Vice President of LIU’s U.S. Energy business, where he managed a sizeable energy portfolio of oil/gas and power generation business. An 11 year veteran of LIU, Mr. Niehaus is responsible for creating LIU’s construction product line, which he has grown into a multi-million dollar book. In his new role, Mr. Niehaus now has responsibility for all of LIU’s Energy and Construction business in the U.S.
For more information on these and LIU’s other products visit www.liu-usa.com
About Liberty International Underwriters
Part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) distributes global specialty lines products and services exclusively through the independent broker network worldwide to insure specialized risk in most countries in the world.
From New York to Melbourne, LIU maintains underwriting consistency that leverages substantial global capacity while giving its underwriters broad local authority to deliver creative solutions that genuinely add value.
About Liberty Mutual Insurance
Liberty Mutual’s mission is to help people preserve and protect what they earn, build, own and cherish. Keeping this promise means we are there when our policyholders throughout the world need us most.
We began our operations in Boston, Massachusetts in 1912. Today Liberty Mutual is a diversified insurer with operations in 30 countries and economies around the world. We are the third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2014 direct premium written as reported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Liberty Mutual is ranked 78th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2014 revenue. As of December 31, 2014, we have $124.3 billion in consolidated assets, $104.0 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $39.6 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Liberty Mutual employs more than 50,000 people in approximately 900 offices throughout the world, and we offer a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, accident & health, commercial automobile, general liability, property, surety, workers compensation, group disability, group life, specialty lines, reinsurance, individual life and annuity products.
You can learn more by visiting www.libertymutualinsurance.com.
Contact:
Adrianne Kaufmann
617-947-3811
Adrianne.kaufmann@libertymutual.com
