Liberty Mutual Opens Equipment Breakdown Office in San Francisco, Adds Staff

Liberty Mutual has added senior underwriting and technical engineering resource staff to its equipment breakdown operations, as well as opened a San Francisco office so it can be closer to its partners.

The new staff includes:

• John Volle, senior manager of Equipment Breakdown Reinsurance Assumed. Volle will work with insurers and brokers to provide equipment breakdown to their clients. Volle has more than 20 years of reinsurance experience, most recently with Hartford Steam Boiler.

• Jennifer Soul, director of underwriting for the Western Region. Jennifer will drive Liberty Mutual’s equipment breakdown business throughout the region from the San Francisco office. She has more than 10 years of engineering, sales and underwriting experience and joins Liberty Mutual from the Mutual Boiler Re division of FM Global.

• Wilton “Boyette” Sanford, senior risk engineer. Boyette joins the Equipment Breakdown Technical Risk Engineering unit to help service equipment breakdown policyholders in high hazard industries, particularly heavy manufacturing, and with state-of-the-art equipment. In addition to directly servicing policyholders, he – and other members of the Technical Risk Engineering team – will help the overall team with complex industries and equipment. Boyette has more than 25 years of experience, most recently with Hartford Steam Boiler.

Headquartered in Boston, Mass., Liberty Mutual is a diversified insurer with operations in 30 countries around the world. Liberty Mutual offers a range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, accident & health, commercial automobile, general liability, property, surety, workers compensation, group disability, group life, specialty lines, reinsurance, individual life and annuity products.