PMA Companies has appointed Vince Perrotta as senior underwriting specialist within the specialty markets division. As a provider of workers’ compensation, casualty insurance, and third-party administrator and risk services, PMA’s specialty markets division works with alternative risk clients and brokers to form captive solutions. In his new role, Perrotta will be responsible for working with PMA’s distribution partners and clients, with a focus on underwriting the firm’s growing captive book of business. As a casualty underwriter, Perrotta has experience in the captive industry on a range of programmes, including single-parent and group captives, rent-a-captives and pure fronts. He previously served as senior underwriter for captive solutions at AIG, before which he was an underwriter for group captives. Before AIG, Perrotta served as an underwriter at Chubb for two years. The appointment follows the recent hires of Steven Woodard as captives and programmes leader and Chris Kramer as national sales executive within PMA’s specialty markets division.