Argo Environmental makes five underwriting hires in the US

Argo Environmental, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, has made a number of underwriting hires to bolster its US environmental business.

Joy Christie has been named as vice president, while Phillip Martell becomes assistant vice president. Jeff Chao is named as a senior underwriter, while Brandon Turner and Yuriy Cherepnya are both named as underwriters.

All report to David Corry, senior vice president and head of environmental.

Christie has more than 20 years of underwriting experience and joins from Navigators and formerly held roles at Zurich, AIG and Chubb.

Martell joins from Markel and formerly held roles at AIG and several environmental engineering firms. He has 25 years of combined underwriting, claims and environmental engineering experience.

Chao joins from Aspen Insurance and formerly held roles at Liberty International Underwriters and AIG. He has more than 10 years of underwriting experience.

Turner was previously at Starr Companies and has worked at Liberty Mutual, and has 10 years of combined underwriting and claims experience.

Cherepnya joins from Markel and has over seven years of underwriting and underwriting support experience.

The five hires are strategically located across the US to support Argo Group’s growing broker network.

Corry said: “There is increasing demand from businesses for environmental insurance coverage, and our newly hired underwriters are well known with our US brokers as strong solution providers.”

Argo Environmental provides environmental liability insurance and related insurance products to a range of businesses, including those that operate in the environmental industry and those that face environmental liabilities arising from their industrial and commercial activities.