Liberty International Underwriters Expands Risk Engineering Team To Focus on Energy-Related and Civil Construction Projects

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Feb 26, 2015, 09:16 ET

NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With the resurgence in America's energy industry and continued energy growth anticipated in Latin America, Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has added five risk engineers to its U.S. and Latin America risk engineering team to focus on energy-related opportunities and civil construction projects.

The additional risk engineering team members are:

Miami-based Leonardo Garzon and Jose Segnini for Latin America
New York-based Rickey Johnson for the U.S.
Houston-based Paul Hampshire, both for the U.S. and Latin America Civil Construction
Houston-based Scott Kelley for the U.S.

"With many critical issues in energy impacting construction and vice versa, we wanted to provide brokers with a more holistic approach to risk mitigation where one team handles all first party property risks," said Timothy Kania, senior vice president of LIU Energy and Construction. "By strengthening our risk engineering team, LIU maximizes its expertise to provide brokers an integrated resource allowing for delivery of comprehensive risk engineering services to meet the complex energy-related opportunities and civil construction needs of their customers."

The energy-construction risk engineer team joins LIU's existing energy and construction operations in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and New York, which offer creative cross-class response through seamless products, policy cover, and services. As part of the LIU Team 360 approach to service, risk engineers work closely with underwriters and claims managers in dedicated client teams.

Liberty International Underwriters, part of the Global Specialty lines division of Liberty Mutual Insurance, distributes exclusively through the independent broker network in its thirty worldwide offices. Brokers can contact Timothy Kania to learn more about LIU's Energy & Construction capabilities, [email protected], 212-208-9554.

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 76^th 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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