People Moves: Liberty Specialty Markets Taps CNA Hardy’s Butt as UK Head of Casualty Claims; SiriusPoint Names Pryde From Catalina Re as Group Chief Risk Officer

This variation of Interntional People Moves details appointments astatine Liberty Specialty Markets and SiriusPoint.

A summary of these caller hires follows here.

Liberty Specialty Markets Taps CNA Hardy’s Butt arsenic Head of Casualty Claims, UK

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), portion of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has announced the assignment of Niala Butt arsenic caput of casualty claims, UK, effectual immediately.

Reporting to Nik Mahida, caput of third-party claims, UK & MENA, LSM, Butt volition beryllium based successful London.

Niala Butt

Her assignment marks a strategical determination for LSM arsenic it aligns its London claims section with the wider business. Following Carly Marston’s promotion to caput of FINPRO claims successful February, this assignment sees the 2nd elder pistillate relation filled successful the LSM claims squad successful caller months.

In her caller role, Butt volition pb the casualty claims team, supporting LSM’s extremity to present greater claims worth crossed the security lifecycle. Amongst her areas of absorption volition beryllium inclination analysis, operational ratio and stakeholder engagement, which volition see sharing her sizeable cognition and expertise moving straight with insureds.

With much than 28 years of manufacture experience, Butt joins from CNA Hardy, wherever she served arsenic casualty claims manager for 3 years. She began her vocation arsenic a liability/property underwriter earlier moving into elder roles spanning aesculapian malpractice, claims operations, and planetary risks. Butt is besides highly engaged successful manufacture initiatives, serving connected the LMA General Liability Committee, starring the Ethnic Women successful Insurance Network, and contributing to respective CII committees focused connected diverseness and innovation.

Scott Kellers, caput of UK & MENA claims said: “Niala brings an bonzer extent of acquisition to this caller role, and her enactment volition beryllium instrumental arsenic we germinate our claims offering. Her manufacture cognition and marketplace illustration volition beryllium a large plus to Liberty and our clients. We are arrogant to person a divers claims enactment team, reflecting the diverseness of our clients and their circumstantial needs.”

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SiriusPoint Names Pryde From Catalina Re arsenic Group Chief Risk Officer

SiriusPoint Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, has announced the assignment of Andrew Pryde arsenic radical main hazard officer, effectual September 2025.

Based successful Bermuda, Pryde volition study to Scott Egan, main enforcement serviceman astatine SiriusPoint. He volition beryllium liable for overseeing the company’s planetary hazard absorption strategy.

Pryde succeeds Andreas Kull, who volition enactment with SiriusPoint until September to support concern continuity and a seamless modulation of responsibilities to Pryde.

Andrew Pryde

Pryde joins SiriusPoint from Catalina Re, wherever helium was Group Chief Risk Officer. At Catalina Re helium was liable for the group’s hazard management, compliance, superior modeling and concern hazard management. Pryde has implicit 25 years of acquisition successful the Bermuda and London security and reinsurance markets, antecedently holding enforcement manager and radical main hazard serviceman roles astatine some Beazley plc and DARAG.

He has besides held president of the committee positions astatine BHI Digital, a integer managing wide agent, and Lodestone Security, a US-based cyber consulting company. Pryde started his vocation arsenic an actuarial advisor astatine PwC.

“Andrew is simply a highly accomplished and experienced committee level security enforcement with proven acquisition of implementing beardown and valued hazard absorption frameworks. He is simply a large prosecute who volition adhd spot and extent arsenic we proceed to prosecute our ambitions arsenic a business. This assignment volition beryllium based successful Bermuda, besides adding further spot to our Bermuda based team,” commented Egan.

“SiriusPoint would similar to convey Andreas for his enactment of the hazard team, and important publication and dedication during his 3.5 years with the company,” said Egan. “We privation Andreas each the champion successful his aboriginal endeavors.”

Topics Claims Excess Surplus Casualty