Accident & Health

Business Group Leader-Accident & Health/Bloodstock

Nigel’s underwriting career started in 1982 with Syndicate 512, a leader in Accident & Health business. From 1989 to 1992 he was the A&H underwriter for both Syndicate 512 and 530. In 1992 Nigel joined Duncanson & Holt Europe as chief underwriter with responsibility for a broad account encompassing both PA and Medical business.

He joined Wellington with his team at the end of 1999 to develop the A&H account for the Group. He became a member of the Underwriting Executive in 2002 and was also appointed a director for Wellington Underwriting Agency Ltd. He serves on the NMA Business Panel for Accident and Health. Within Wellington he also served on Technical Reserving Group, Training Committee and Security Committee.

Deputy Business Group Leader/Senior Underwriter

After graduating from Leicester University, Robert began his career in Lloyd's at G.E. Lloyd-Roberts and Others (Syndicate 55) as an underwriting assistant on the personal accident account. During the course of seven years, Robert assumed an increasing amount of underwriting authority and became recognised as a leader in the class. Robert joined CUAL in 1999 as class underwriter for the personal accident account. He began underwriting the contingency account for CUAL in 2003.

Underwriter

Paul joined Wellington in August 2001 having spent 4 years as group credit controller for a large international advertising agency. After joining Wellington to perform a similar role within Syndicate 2020, Paul moved to the Accident & Health team to undertake the role of underwriting assistant. In 2006 he progressed to assistant underwriter specialising in General PA business.

Underwriter

Angela started in the insurance industry in 1985. She joined Aircrew Underwriting Agencies in 1988 specialising in aircrew loss of licence and personal accident before joining Scottish Re in 2001. Her wide experience of the management of all facets of this specialised class ultimately led to her appointment as underwriter with additional responsibility for the Middle Eastern Group Life portfolio. Angela joined Catlin’s Accident and Health team in January 2008 as class underwriter.

Underwriter

Clive started his underwriting career at Private Patients Plan in 1992 handling the pricing of group private medical accounts and medical underwriting of personal applications. In 1995 he joined CIGNA to underwrite UK personal accident, travel and sickness business.

A move to Duncanson & Holt Europe followed in 1998 where he joined Nigel Guillaume-Smith’s Accident & Health team as assistant underwriter for the medical account. In January 2000 the D & H team moved to Wellington Syndicate 2020. Clive is currently class underwriting in Accident & Health specialising in General Personal Accident, War risks and Medical Expenses.

Underwriter

Andrew’s underwriting career started in 1980 with Sun Alliance’s UK Personal Accident team. From 1985-1987, he was Deputy Underwiter at Accident and Health Reinsurance consultants Ltd, a specialist agency working primarily in North American specific and aggregate excess medical benefits programmes. In 1987 he joined AFLAC’s UK operations specialising in UK payment protection and direct marketing. He later became Vice President, Underwriting for AFLAC’s UK life and general insurance companies.

In 1994, Andrew joined Aircrew Underwriting Agencies, a global specialist in aircrew loss of licence. He progressed to become Executive Director of AUA and oversaw AUA’s migration to Scottish Re in 2001. At Scottish Re, Andrew occupied a number of roles including Chief Underwriting Officer and ultimately Director of the Global Aviation business unit.

Andrew joined Catlin as part of the Accident and Health team in November 2007.

Underwriter

David graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Management Sciences and an MSc in Risk Management. He joined Catlin in 2002 as an underwriting assistant on the personal accident and contingency accounts. He was appointed assistant underwriter on these accounts in 2006.

Underwriter

Frances started her career at Lloyd’s broker Blackwall Green in 1986. This followed with a move to J H Davies as assistant underwriter for their Life Syndicate 240.

In January 1990 Duncanson and Holt was formed and Frances joined immediately to work with their chief underwriter A J Stratton and then Nigel Guillaume-Smith. The agency underwrote on behalf of Chubb/Federal and UnumProvident before going into run off in December 1999. As a result Frances joined Wellington with Nigel Guillaume-Smith in 2000, as deputy of one of the most experienced underwriting teams in the London Accident and Health market.

Frances has specialised in occupational accident, workman’s compensation, medical and the other general personal accident classes. Following the sale of Wellington to Catlin in December 2006 she transferred over as class underwriter for Accident and Health.