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Archived News & Announcements
Previous news and happenings from RISC.
February 9, 2009
RISC Adds Vice President – Managment Liability
Craig Law recently joined RISC as Vice President – Management Liability where he has worked specifically with these lines since 2004.
Prior to joining RISC, Craig worked as the Associate Broker for a firm located in San Francisco which specialized in Management and Professional Liability. During his time there, Craig consistently worked on maintaining broker relationships, analyzing policies and negotiating endorsements with carriers to maximize the available coverage for the client. Craig was also in charge of one of the largest retail relationships on the west coast and maintained a territory that spanned across the U.S.
Craig began is insurance carrier working as an underwriter for AIG where he worked with retailers in the Pacific Northwest. Craig consistently met and exceeded targets and has received awards for reaching high production levels. He was elected into the mentor program where he received additional training from senior level management.
Craig graduated from Arizona State in 2002 where he majored in Political Science along with a minor in Business. Craig currently resides in Dallas, TX.
April 21, 2008
RISC Adds Chief Sales Officer
Shawn Fabors recently joined RISC as Chief Sales Officer having worked in the financial services and insurance industry since 1992.
Prior to joining RISC, Shawn served as the Territory Sales Director of a leading national property and casualty insurance company. During his tenure, Shawn was consistently ranked in the top 10 percent of his peer group nationally for new business growth and renewal retention. He also held nominated positions on advisory groups providing insight and ideas to the Executive Management Team.
Shawn began his insurance career in 1998 working for a large well-known international property and casualty insurance carrier. The first seven years he held positions of Branch Manager and Business Development Manager of the Premium Finance Operation. Ultimately, he was promoted to the Regional Manager of Financial Institutions. Shawn also spent two years as a Senior Broker for a national wholesale insurance brokerage firm based in Dallas.
Shawn is a 1992 graduate of Northeastern State University with a BA in Finance. He resides in Plano, TX and enjoys golfing and boating.
February 22, 2007
Chris Hayes Joins RISC’s
MGA/Contract Department
RISC is pleased to announce that Chris Hayes has joined their MGA/Contract Department as Vice President to underwrite a new nationwide Property Binding Contract with Lloyd's of London specializing in Hotels/Motels, apartments and condos.
Chris started work in the insurance industry in 1986 after graduating from the University of Manchester, England. He began his career in Lloyd's working for a syndicate which is now part of the ACE group. Chris worked for two other Lloyd's syndicates as Deputy Named Underwriter, specializing in delegated authority business for wholesale agents in Continental North America. Chris relocated to the U.S. in 2002 to take up a post for a wholesale broker in Arizona before joining a nationwide wholesale broker/MGA in 2004. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Insurance Institute based in the U.K.
January 24, 2007
Montgomery Joins RISC’s Brokerage Department
RISC is pleased to announce that Cathy Montgomery has joined their Brokerage Department as Vice Presidents specializing in Property.
Cathy has over 26 years experience in the insurance industry. She brings with her significant talent, primarily in the Property, Inland Marine, and Ocean Marine lines of coverage. Her career began at Hartford and included stints at Kemper, Philadelphia, St. Paul and Great American before joining RISC.
September 13 , 2006
New
Team Member, Denise Cascio, ACSR
Denise Cascio, ACSR has joined RISC as Senior Associate
to Mike Lehde. Denise has many years experience in the
insurance industry and as Mike's assistant, is ready
to assist you with his accounts.
July 12, 2006
New
Team Member, Tammy Summers
It is with pleasure that we, at RISC, announce that
Tammy Summers has joined us in our Transportation Department.
Tammy has over 25 years experience in commercial auto
and transportation underwriting. After several years
with American Pathfinders in the 70’s, she left
to become the underwriting manager for Commercial General
Agency in Plano. She moved after 14 years with CGA to
London American where she originated, managed and administrated
their long haul trucking program.
Tammy will be actively writing with our current markets while
working with management to put together a long haul facility
for RISC in the near future.
July 10, 2006
Kate
Innocent Joins
RISC
Kate Innocent has joined RISC as a Senior Associate
working with Donna Schoenemann in Property Brokerage.
Kate has 6 years experience in the insurance industry.
She began her career as a life insurance claims examiner
at AEGON DMS in Plano, and has spent the last 3 years
working with small business P&C accounts at The Combined
Group in Carrollton. She and her husband Travis live
in North Dallas with their three completely insane cats.
We are very pleased to welcome Kate to the RISC team.
January 06, 2006
Thank
You For Making 2005
RISC's Best Year Ever
An announcement from Bill Staub
RISC, Inc. has just completed the most successful year
in our company's history. This is the result of incredible
teamwork with our staff, our markets, and our retail
partners. I believe we have put together the finest group
of employees who like their jobs, are good at what they
do, and have set realistic goals to be one of the elite
wholesale operations in the Southwest.
We have made both a procedural commitment and a substantial
financial commitment to stay on the cutting edge of technology
in order to give the best service available. Our recent
partnership with a leading supplier of "paperless" software
and services will allow most of our staff to perform
their jobs as effectively from home as they can from
the office.
We are extremely excited about what lies ahead for us
in 2006 and hope that you too will want to join forces
with us during these exciting times. Allow us the
opportunity to help you achieve outstanding success as
well.
Bill Staub, President
of RISC, Inc.
June 6, 2005
Press Release – Roger
Herron
RISC, Inc is pleased to announce that Roger Herron has
joined the firm as a Senior Underwriter in their
MGA Department. He will be focusing on small to mid-size
property, general liability, liquor liability, inland
marine, auto, and umbrella coverage’s. Roger began
his career with Continental Insurance after obtaining
his BS in Commerce and Industry. He obtained an Associate
in Underwriting (AU) in 1998 and has over 18 years’ industry
experience on the company, agency, and wholesale side.
Roger believes that service is of the utmost importance
to clients, which makes him the ideal addition to RISC’s
underwriting team. Roger‘s experience and reputation
will help solidify this already successful
unit at RISC.
For more information contact: Risc Inc., 2001 Bryan
Street, Suite 2900, Dallas, Texas 75201
214.954.0707 Phone - 214.954.0999 Fax
January 14, 2005
RISC, Inc. – Construction
Facility Taking Off
Dallas based wholesaler, RISC, Inc. announced that it’s
recently formed sub-contractor’s Liability facility
has been a huge success. The facility has been set up
to write GL and Umbrella coverage for 14 specialty contractors
in both the residential and commercial fields.
President of RISC, Bill Staub, states that although
they are currently writing between $1.5 million to $2
million in new premium a month, that “we have just
scratched the surface of this market.” “With
our territory running from Louisiana north to Canada
and west, the long range potential for this program is
simply astounding” according to Mr. Staub.
Bob Leonhart and Darwin Lucas, Senior Vice President’s
of the Programs Department for RISC agree. Mr. Leonhart
states that “in addition to General Liability and
Umbrella, we’ve expanded the program for 2005 to
include Workers’ Compensation and Automobile coverage.
These added lines make us more desirable to retail agencies
and insured’s alike.”
Mr. Lucas, states “our ability to use an exposure
basis of payroll for these classes of business has given
our agents a more accurate way to base their premiums.
We have seen receipts escalating due to the cost of goods
increasing monthly, and our clients have all agreed that
using a payroll basis of rating is more cost effective.
As a result, these competitively priced programs continue
to increase our market share in these classes.”
For further information on this program you
can visit the Program
section of this website or call 1-800-725-7472
and ask for either Mr. Lucas or Mr. Leonhart.
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