Lezaj to Lead New Zurich Middle Market Complex Casualty Unit
Zurich North America has created a Complex Casualty unit to support its customers in the upper middle-market segment. Steve Lezaj, a veteran insurance executive, has been appointed to lead this effort as national Complex Casualty underwriting director.
Lezaj joins Zurich from Travelers, where he most recently served as account executive director, responsible for leading a team in underwriting and managing complex, loss-sensitive business. His previous work experience includes account executive roles at Royal & Sun Alliance in Atlanta and Hartford Specialty Company in Los Angeles. Lezaj began his career as an actuarial analyst at Hartford Financial Services Group.
Marsh McLennan Appoints Bouchard Managing Director of Climate
Marsh McLennan reports that Francis Bouchard has joined the Marsh McLennan Advantage team as managing director of Climate. He will be responsible for the team’s climate strategy and for developing services from across Marsh McLennan that help clients create resilient strategies. He will work with the company’s four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman.
Prior to joining Marsh McLennan, Bouchard spent more than 20 years with Zurich Insurance Group in a series of global roles, most recently as the Group head of Public Affairs and Sustainability.
Bouchard will continue as chairman of SBP, a non-profit disaster resilience organization serving low-income populations. He is also a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council Resilience Center and a member of AGree Economic and Environmental Risk Coalition, which advocates for crop insurance reform.
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