Chubb Bermuda Names Porter Head of Financial Lines

Chubb Bermuda has named Richard Porter as senior vice president, head of Financial Lines. In this role, Porter is responsible for leading Chubb Bermuda’s Financial Lines division, which includes directors and officers liability, cyber, transactional risk, errors and omissions, and employment practices liability.

Based in Bermuda, he reports to Judy Gonsalves, vice president of Chubb Group and division president, Chubb Bermuda.

Porter has more than two decades of U.S. and international industry experience. Before this appointment, he served as general counsel for Chubb Bermuda, where he oversaw legal and compliance matters for the company and served as counsel to the underwriting teams in financial lines, excess liability, and property.

Porter joined the company as associate general counsel in 2011 and was promoted in 2016 to general counsel of Chubb Bermuda, where he also provided legal oversight for its affiliates in Dublin and London.

Before joining Chubb Bermuda, Porter was partner with Wilson Elser in New York City where he worked for 10 years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and earned his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School.

Chubb’s Financial Lines Division in Bermuda has been handling underwriting and claims in the excess marketplace for nearly three decades.

Source: Chubb Bermuda

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