Munich Re Specialty Insurance a Claims Team Like No Other

Munich Re Specialty Insurance A claims team like no other

We have what it takes to handle Legal Professional Liability and Miscellaneous Professional Liability claims professionally, efficiently, and expertly.

The MRSI Claims team has decades of experience in professional lines and understands your business innately. Our team includes licensed attorneys with trial experience, and we are experts in claims strategy and litigation management. Most importantly, we handle your claims with the utmost diligence and professionalism.

Our E&S professional liability team knows the importance of a close partnership between underwriting and claims. Because of this, we speak your language and can protect you by foreseeing claim pitfalls.

Your MRSI team Mary Beth McClellan Chuck Kroh Chief Claims Officer Head of Core Specialty and P&C Claims MRSI [email protected] [email protected]

Melanie Brown Bill Quackenboss Head of Complex Claims Claims Practice Lead MRSI [email protected] [email protected]

Ed Kozel Sarah Gurka Claims Practice Lead Claims Manager [email protected] Public Entity and Financial and Professional Lines [email protected] Mary Beth McClellan is MRSI’s Chief Chuck Kroh is MRSI’s Head of Core Bill Quakenboss is MRSI’s Claims Claims Officer. Mary Beth has a wealth of Specialty and P&C Claims. Chuck has Practice Lead. Bill has nearly 20 years of knowledge in insurance, claims, and headed Specialty Markets claims for over experience in advising on coverage litigation management spanning North 10 years, with 20 years of claims matters and claims-handling practices. America’s P&C markets. Prior to joining management expertise. Chuck has over Prior to joining MRSI, Bill served as an MRSI, she was Practice Leader for the 35 years of insurance industry Associate General Counsel at Markel Americas at AXA XL for Excess & experience, and manages with an Insurance, where he provided guidance Surplus, Global Programs, U.S. Programs, emphasis on excellent claims service and on coverage and complex claims to Environmental P&C, Canada, and Allied. optimal resolution. In his head role, he multiple lines of business in casualty Mary Beth draws on her background as a has led claims across multiple business and specialty lines. Before Markel, Bill trial attorney to lead with strategic vision units, including professional lines such was a partner in private practice, where and influence with a technical emphasis as Lawyers, Agents & Brokers, Real he represented commercial insurers in and pragmatic approach to achieve the Estate E&O, Directors & Officers, EPL, litigated coverage disputes. Bill also most optimal claim resolutions. She is Miscellaneous E&O, Medical previously served as an Assistant barred where she spent her early days Malpractice/Healthcare, Public Officials General Counsel at Swiss Re. He is representing insureds and insurers - New Legal Liability, School Board Legal admitted to practice in New York and York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Liability and has vast experience in these New Jersey, as well as in several several federal courts. coverages and the liabilities they protect federal courts. against. Chuck is a graduate of Catawba Melanie Brown is MRSI’s Head of College in Salisbury, North Carolina. Sarah Gurka is MRSI’s Claims Manager Complex Claims, with over 20 years of for Public Entity and Financial and experience in casualty and specialty Ed Kozel is MRSI’s Claims Practice Lead. Professional Lines. She has vast lines. Prior to joining MRSI, Melanie was Ed has over 25 years of experience in experience overseeing claims in D&O, the Director of Professional Liability at advising on high exposure matters and E&O (including A&E, Agents and Markel, where she oversaw claims trials for specialty and casualty claims. Brokers, Lawyers, and Tech), Malpractice, spanning Architects & Engineers, Prior to joining MRSI, Ed served as Cyber, Commercial Crime, Bond, EPL, Construction Defect, Lawyers, Agents & Managing Trial Attorney with CNA products, and GL lines, with domestic Brokers, Directors & Officers, Financial Corporation, where he provided and international insureds, including Miscellaneous E&O, and Medical strategic oversight on complex claims, public entities. Before she joined the Malpractice/Healthcare nationwide. She including all professional lines. Before insurance industry, Sarah was in private also managed General Liability, Products CNA, Ed was a partner at an practice where she mediated, tried, and Liability, and Environmental claims. international insurance defense law firm appealed cases across professional, Melanie also practiced law, defending located in Chicago, representing employment, mass tort, fraud, and SEC clients in commercial, professional commercial insurers and insureds in class actions, construction, liability, pharmaceutical, and products first- and third-party matters. Ed also environmental, and catastrophic injury liability litigation. Melanie graduated gained valuable experience as plaintiff’s cases. Sarah graduated from Rutgers from the University of Virginia and attorney early on in his career. Ed has a University and Rutgers Law School and received her Juris Doctor from wealth of litigation experience, trying is admitted in New York and New Jersey. Washington & Lee University. She is over 200 cases, which includes serving admitted in Illinois and numerous as the first chair in many high severity federal courts. jury trials. Ed’s admissions have included Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota, and Indiana.

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Munich Re Specialty Insurance (MRSI) is a description for the insurance business operations of affiliated companies in the Munich Re Group that share a common directive to offer and deliver specialty property and casualty insurance products and services in North America.

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