Hudson Insurance Group replaces head of surety

Specialty insurer Hudson Insurance Group has appointed Andrew Dickson as the new head of its surety business unit, which offers contract surety, commercial surety and specialty contract surety.

Dickson joined Odyssey Reinsurance Company (OdysseyRe), Hudson’s sister company, in 2010 as the senior underwriter for all surety reinsurance in Latin America. He assumed positions of increasing responsibility, eventually becoming the underwriting manager for all of OdysseyRe’s surety reinsurance in the US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Since 2016, Dickson has served as chief underwriting officer for OdysseyRe’s Latin America division. Prior to that, he had more than 15 years of experience in commercial lending and surety reinsurance.

Dickson replaces Michael Cifone, who formerly held the role and was promoted to senior operations officer at Hudson in late 2019. Dickson will be based in Miami and will report to Christopher Gallagher, president & CEO of Hudson Insurance Group.

“Andy brings a breadth of experience and deep product knowledge to Hudson,” said Gallagher. “We are excited to have him at the helm of our surety team. Surety continues to be a strategic and important area of growth for us.”