Guy Carpenter’s Accident & Health Team Honored at Insurance Day London Market Awards

2009 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com) -- Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC's Accident & Health team has been named "Broking Team of the Year" at the Insurance Day 2009 London Market Awards. The annual awards, presented December 3 at London's Grosvenor Hotel, are selected by a distinguished panel of independent judges and recognize outstanding work in the London (re)insurance market (see also Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC).Over the past several years Guy Carpenter's Accident & Health team has experienced strong year-on-year growth and has significantly diversified its core client base to comprise customer relationships in more than 30 countries, including China and across the Middle East. Leveraging a core team of experienced brokers, the group has prospered in a difficult economic climate by expanding its services - which include keyman insurance, reinsurance, retrocession and London market excess - to a balanced portfolio.Recent achievements of Guy Carpenter's Accident & Health team include the establishment of an underlying conveyance-only retrocession layer to significantly reduce retention of a common carrier event, as well as being the first team in the market to provide a comprehensive terror, pandemic, Medex and property cover. Guy Carpenter's proprietary life cat model also empowers clients to effectively model their risk profiles from their own desktops, using basic portfolio data. QUOTEPeter Zaffino, President and CEO, Guy Carpenter"We are very pleased and honored to receive this award from Insurance Day. We have worked extremely hard to develop our Accident & Health practice in London and this award is a tremendous endorsement of the progress that our team has made." TAGS/KEYWORDSGuy Carpenter, reinsurance, accident and health, awards, Insurance Day, London About Guy Carpenter Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is the world's leading risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies. With over 50 offices worldwide, Guy Carpenter creates and executes reinsurance solutions and delivers capital market solutions* for clients across the globe. The firm's full breadth of services includes line of business expertise in Agriculture; Aviation; Casualty Clash; Construction and Engineering; Excess and Umbrella; Life, Accident and Health; Marine; Medical Professional Liability; Political Risk and Trade Credit; Professional Liability; Property; Retrocessional Reinsurance; Surety; Terrorism and Workers Compensation. GCFac® is Guy Carpenter's dedicated global facultative reinsurance unit that provides placement strategies, timely market access and centralized management of facultative reinsurance solutions. In addition, Guy Carpenter's Instrat® unit utilizes industry-leading quantitative skills and modeling tools that optimize the reinsurance decision-making process and help make the firm's clients more successful. Guy Carpenter's website address is www.guycarp.com.Guy Carpenter's intellectual capital website, www.GCCapitalIdeas.com, leverages blog technology, including Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and searchable category tags, to deliver Guy Carpenter's latest research as soon as it is posted. In addition, articles can be delivered directly to BlackBerrys and other handheld devices.* Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the United States through GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., a US registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Main Office: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 345-5000. Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the European Union by GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd., which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. MMC Securities Corp., MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd. and Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC are affiliates owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. This communication is not intended as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any security, financial instrument, reinsurance or insurance product.