Ace strengthens environmental risk team

Ace has appointed Robert Latimer as environmental risk underwriter as it continues to invest in building its environmental liability insurance capabilities in the UK & Ireland.

Latimer will be responsible for growing ACE’s regional environmental liability book, working predominantly with brokers outside of London to develop environmental liability programmes.

He will be based in Manchester and report to Emma Bartolo, UK & Ireland environmental risk manager.

Latimer joins from OHES Environmental Consulting (part of AJ Gallagher) where he was a principal environmental consultant, managing environmental incidents across a wide range of industries and clients. Prior to that, he was environmental consultant at specialist consultancy service provider WSP Environmental.

Bartolo said: “As the environmental liability market continues to grow and develop, Roberts’s appointment is a demonstration of ACE’s commitment to offering unmatched expertise in this evolving sector. Robert’s strong technical skills and experience in dealing with environmental claims will provide our brokers and clients with a detailed insight into how to build a robust and pragmatic programme to insure their environmental risk”.