February 06, 2015 - To help meet the large global property insurance needs of brokers and risk managers throughout Liberty Mutual’s West division, Liberty Mutual’s National Insurance Property operation has appointed Melissa Kayali division underwriting manager.
Based in Los Angeles, Kayali is responsible for expanding Liberty Mutual’s large, global property presence in the West. In this role, she oversees a team of dedicated property underwriters, risk engineers and service professionals who deliver consistent and responsive service.
“Melissa’s more than 30 years of experience and strong reputation with brokers makes her the perfect underwriting manager for our West division,” notes Mike Martin, executive vice president, general manager, Liberty Mutual National Insurance Property. “She blends deep technical large and global account underwriting and risk engineering experience with a detailed understanding of the property market in the West, enabling her and her team to build effective property solutions.”
Prior to joining Liberty Mutual, Kayali served as vice president, senior property underwriter at XL Insurance. She also held underwriting and risk engineering positions at Royal and Sun Alliance, Zurich-American Risk Engineering and American International Underwriters.
Liberty Mutual’s National Insurance Property operation provides a full range of commercial property products, including single carrier, shared and layered, multi-national, equipment breakdown, and inland marine. Broad and flexible coverages are supported by field-based underwriters and certified property risk engineers.
About Liberty Mutual Insurance
Liberty Mutual Insurance helps 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.
In business since 1912, and headquartered in Boston, Mass., today Liberty Mutual is a diversified insurer with operations in 30 countries around the world. The company is the third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on 2013 direct premium written as reported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Liberty Mutual is ranked 76th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2013 revenue. As of December 31, 2013, Liberty Mutual Insurance had $121.2 billion in consolidated assets, $102.2 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $38.5 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Liberty 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.
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