JLT Specialty’s Financial Lines Group has appointed James Frost and Matthew Baker, both from Aon, to strengthen their regional Solicitors Professional Indemnity (PI) team. James will be based in Birmingham and Matthew in Bristol. Both will join in Q1 2015, subject to fulfilment of their contractual obligations.
Their roles will be to grow JLT Specialty’s regional Solicitors PI business, building relationships with local legal communities. They follow the appointments of Tony Brown, Toby King, Joel Harding and Gareth Greaves-Milner in 2014, giving JLT’s growing client base nationwide access to PI specialists.
JLT Specialty has built its Solicitors’ PI market share rapidly over the past 3 years and now looks after over 1,100 law firms in England and Wales. It has exclusive relationships with Amtrust and CV Starr for 1-10 partner firms, and was listed number one for customer satisfaction and service in the 2014 Law Society Survey.
Adam Codrington, Head of Professional Indemnity in JLT Specialty’s Financial Lines Group, comments: “We are delighted that industry professionals of the calibre and experience of James and Matthew have chosen to join JLT. We are intent on building our reputation as market leaders in this area and they bring with them a huge amount of sector knowledge and a commitment to service excellence in line with our client first philosophy.’