27 November 2019

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance appoints D&O liability underwriting lead

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has expanded its European team with the addition of Chris Warrior as head of directors’ & officers’ liability underwriting for UK & Ireland.

Warrior comes to BHSI with 36 years of experience in the commercial D&O space, both on the underwriting and brokerage sides of the business. He was most recently Hiscox’s London market management liability focus group leader. Over the past decades, he has successfully established and grown D&O Liability businesses for a number of insurers.

"We are pleased to have Chris rounding out our team of executive and professional lines executives,” said Chris Colahan, president, UK & Europe, BHSI. “Our team is committed to bringing the certainty customers and brokers need in a transitioning financial lines marketplace, providing professional indemnity, financial institutions and management liability programmes with BHSI's long-view underwriting and financial strength."

Vanessa Maxwell, head of executive & professional lines, UK & Ireland, added: “Chris is exceptionally qualified to lead our efforts to bring sophisticated and sustainable D&O liability solutions to our brokers and customers. We are pleased to add his expertise to BHSI’s growing team in London.”

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