Specialist insurer Markel has strengthened its trade credit and political risk team with the appointment of Naomi Murray as senior claims adjuster.
 
The company said Murray’s appointment will enable the team to continue providing a “customer-focused, nimble and value-added claims service.”
 
It will also enable Antony Bastow, claims manager and contracts counsel, to spend more time with underwriters on delivering new and innovative products.
 
Murray will report to Bastow, who has been more focused on assisting the underwriting teams in London, Singapore, New York and Dubai with the development of complex products and policy wordings. He will retain overall responsibility for the trade credit and political risk claims function.
 
Commenting on the appointment, political risk and trade credit managing director Ewa Rose praised Murray for her “her outstanding reputation in the trade credit and political risk market.”
 
“Naomi’s appointment is an important addition, which will further strengthen our global team,” Rose said. “Her extensive market knowledge will enable us to continue to provide the policyholders with the highest level of claims handling service.”
 
Murray has been in the industry for 20 years, handling a wide range of claims arising from non-payment, pre-shipment credit, unfair bond calling, contract frustration, confiscation, expropriation, political violence and business interruption across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa.
 
She has worked for Coface, Amlin, RPC Loss Adjusting and for the last 11 years as a consultant with Leadenhall Adjusting Limited.
 

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