AXIS makes senior casualty hires from GenRe and Hallmark

AXIS Insurance, the specialty insurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings, has hired two senior executives from GenRe and Hallmark to help support the growth of its excess casualty business as market conditions continue to improve.

Jonathan Martin and Jennifer Fisher will join AXIS as vice president and assistant vice president, respectively, within the company’s US excess casualty underwriting team.

Martin joins AXIS following more than 12 years’ experience at GenStar Management where he held a variety of underwriting positions across primary and excess casualty lines through wholesale brokers. His most recent position with the firm was vice president at Gen Re where he was responsible for underwriting casualty facultative reinsurance on an individual risk and programme basis, including construction, auto liability and high excess liability. Martin also worked in excess casualty underwriting roles in the New York and Chicago offices while at General Star.

Fisher was most recently senior underwriter, excess casualty, at Hallmark Financial Services. Previously, she was an inside casualty broker at CRC Insurance Services. She began her career at Liberty International Underwriters as an excess casualty underwriter.

“Jonathan and Jennifer are established Excess Casualty underwriters who will help support the growth of our Excess Casualty business as market conditions continue to improve,” said Mike Flaherty, president, US casualty at AXIS Insurance. “Their underwriting expertise and market experience will enable us to further support our wholesale broker partners and the complex risk needs of their clients.”