Market Moves: 9 July 2015

Insurers

Allianz
Allianz has hired Deniz Moon to its retail division as head of pricing development. In her new role, Moon will be responsible for managing pricing development across Allianz Retail’s home and motor portfolios. Moon joins from the Markerstudy group, where she led the broker pricing team and held responsibility for the development of technical pricing, including data enrichment for its motor business. She previously managed technical pricing at Direct Line Group, where she was responsible for its home insurance book in the UK. She can be reached at Deniz.moon@allianz.co.uk.

Covéa
Tony Matthias has joined Covéa Insurance as small business underwriting manager. The newly created role is designed to enhance the company’s small business e-trading capability and support the development of its small business e-trade proposition. Matthias has previously had spells at the Electrical Contractors Insurance Company, Vela (Oval’s MGA) and Layton Blackham (now Bluefin).

Elite Insurance
Elite Insurance has appointed Andrew Stone as commercial and technical director. Stone will also be appointed to the main board of the company. One of his new roles will be to head up the firm’s motor book, while overseeing special projects such as Solvency II. He will be based in Elite’s Gibraltar office but will also spend time in the various UK offices. His most recent role was as director and chief operating officer at Enterprise Insurance.

UK P&I Club
Shipping protection and indemnity mutual insurer The UK P&I Club has appointed Stuart Edmonston as director of loss prevention, following the retirement of Karl Lumbers. Edmonston joined UK P&I Club in 2014 as loss prevention deputy director, having spent eight years at Holman Fenwick and Willan
as a marine manager and casualty investigator.

XL Catlin
XL Catlin has appointed Brendan Plessis as head of emerging markets. Plessis will lead the development of emerging market strategies and explore and assess both current and new opportunities for continued growth around the world and expansion into new markets. He joins from Carpenter & Company Singapore where he was managing director.


Brokers

Hyperion
Towergate interim chief financial officer Oliver Corbett is to succeed Eric Fady as Hyperion Insurance Group’s CFO. Corbett, previously Novae CFO, will take up the role in August. Before his time at Towergate, Corbett held roles at corporate finance firms including SG Warburg and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Fady has left Hyperion to pursue new challenges.

Claims

CCG
Claims Consortium Group has appointed ex-Waylett & Co boss, Peter Waylett, as head of audit and technical. Waylett sold his nationwide claims validation company to LAS Claims Management in 2012 and has since been pursuing his own property interests. His new role will involve developing technical audit competencies across the organisation. Waylett began his career in construction before entering the claims industry in 1998 as a contract manager for Property Solutions. He can be contacted on 0845 250 4404    or pwaylett@claimsconsortiumgroup.co.uk


Legal

BTO
Solicitor advocate Robin Macpherson has joined BTO in Scotland, where he will work on further developing the commercial dispute resolution side of the practice. Specialising in property, contract, professional negligence, insolvency and general commercial litigation, He can be contacted on 0131 222 2939 or at rim@bto.co.uk