Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Appoints Andrew Adams as Head of Surety in Canada

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 4 -- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, a provider of commercial property, casualty, healthcare and executive and professional lines and marine insurance, issued the following news release:

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced that it has expanded its global surety team with the addition of Andrew Adams as Head of Surety in Canada.

In this new role, Andrew will establish and expand BHSI's contract and commercial surety relationships throughout Canada.

"With extensive experience in the local surety market, Andrew will lead our e orts to provide sustainable surety solutions with responsive service to customers across Canada," said Courtney Walker, Senior Vice President, Surety, BHSI. "We are pleased to welcome him to BHSI's growing surety team."

Andrew comes to BHSI with more than 25 years of surety underwriting experience. He began his career at the Guardian Insurance Company of Canada and Zurich Canada, and was most recently Vice President, Surety, Canada, at AIG. He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from York University in Toronto.

Andrew is based in BHSI's o ce in Toronto and can be reached at 647-846-7847 or andrew.adams@bhspecialty.com.

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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (www.bhspecialty.com) provides commercial property, casualty, healthcare professional liability, executive and professional lines, surety, travel, programs, accident & health, medical stop loss, and homeowners insurance. e actual and nal terms of coverage for all product lines may vary. In Canada it underwrites on the paper of National Liability & Fire Insurance Company, a part of Berkshire Hathaway's National Indemnity group of insurance companies, which hold nancial strength ratings of A++ from AM Best and AA+ from Standard & Poor's. Based in Boston, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has o ces in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Irvine, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Ramon, Seattle, Stevens Point, Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Cologne, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Macau, Madrid, Melbourne, Munich, Paris, Perth, Singapore, Sydney and Toronto.