XL Group’s US risk management business is adding and redeploying talent in its New York office to boost its resources to address businesses' complex casualty insurance needs.
The company announced the addition of James Barbuti as its US risk management leader for the East coast and the appointment of David Kelly to a new home office role as senior vice president of US Risk Management. Both report to Jay Lefkowitz, head of US Risk Management.
According to Lefkowitz, "Barbuti's knowledge and relationships in both New York and the Mid-Atlantic marketplace is extensive and will be invaluable to us as we strengthen our broker relationships and our reputation for creatively addressing large complex casualty accounts. We're pleased to gain his help to build on our recent successes."
"Kelly is stepping into a new role to focus on building our captive capabilities. He will assist our regional underwriting teams in addressing various captive fronting, single parent, small group captive, and other unique risk management account opportunities," Lefkowitz said. "We're also tapping into his extensive home office operation experience to assist in several planned underwriting process and operational enhancements."
Barbuti joins XL from ACE where he has worked for the past 10 years in both Philadelphia and NY running the risk management operations.
David Kelly joined XL Group's US Risk Management team in 2003 after 23 years with Kemper Insurance where he most recently served as chief underwriting officer at Kemper Risk Management.
