Higginbotham & Associates Adds McBride to Energy Unit

May 9, 2007

Texas-based Higginbotham & Associates announced it added commercial property/casualty broker and management liability expert Kevin McBride to its Energy Division.

McBride has worked with on-shore and off-shore contractors and operators, pipeline owner operators and integrated oil companies in underwriting and broker capacities during his 20-year career in insurance and risk management. He has joined Higginbotham’s Energy Division, acquired by the agency in 2000 and led by Managing Directors Robert Carson and Phil Luebbehusen, to assess risk and place coverage for drillers and operators throughout Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

McBride also has concentrated experience designing and placing directors and officers (D&O) programs and related executive liability coverage, including employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, kidnap and ransom, and commercial crime. He will serve as an expert resource in placing these coverage lines for Higginbotham’s clients.

McBride’s practice is the culmination of insurance company operations and commercial brokerage. He was an underwriter with American International Group (AIG); managed reinsurance placement and underwriting integrity/operations management programs for TIG Insurance Company; and was founder and owner of Stonebridge Insurance Services Inc, a Managing General Agency (MGA) for Lloyd’s of London. His brokerage experience includes positions with Energy Insurance International, Johnson & Higgins and most recently with Carpenter Moore Insurance Services.

Source: Higginbotham & Associates, www.higginbotham.net.

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