Corgi Insurance has named Daniel Hausman (pictured) vice president of its trucking program, adding a specialist with a documented track record of building commercial trucking insurance programs from scratch.
Emily Yuan, Corgi's COO, tied the hire directly to Hausman's program-building background.
"Hausman has spent his career understanding what makes trucking insurance work, from underwriting and capacity to distribution and operations. His experience building programs at scale makes him a natural fit to help Corgi continue developing insurance products for the transportation industry," Yuan said.
Hausman's most recent roles give a concrete sense of the scale he's been working at. At CSMV Underwriters, he helped grow the program from zero to nearly $20 million in a single year.
At Nirvana, where he served as its first non-fleet business development manager, he helped build the program from zero to $30 million, covering rates and rules, forms redesign, go-to-market strategy, distribution and broker-of-record guidelines along the way,
At Transportation Insurance Experts, Hausman negotiated a more favorable capacity agreement on the Knight Specialty binding contract, expanded distribution, and contributed to 180% year-over-year profitable growth. He also led underwriting and compliance audits that resulted in updated rules and guidelines.
Earlier in his career, Hausman held operational leadership roles through corporate restructurings and led the strategic acquisition of Mulligan AI, a Y Combinator-backed insurtech focused on automating the insurance agent experience in the trucking sector.
Hausman's appointment is notable for how directly it pairs a deeply traditional specialty, commercial trucking insurance, with one of the fastest-scaling AI-native carriers in the market.
Corgi Insurance launched its admitted carrier in mid-2026 specifically to expand beyond its original venture-backed startup focus into broader small business commercial classes, and the trucking program represents a meaningful step into a line that has historically required specialist underwriting expertise, granular data on fleet composition and driver history, and capacity relationships that generalist carriers typically don't maintain.
Having an operator who has built programs at Nirvana, a well-funded insurtech with its own AI-driven trucking underwriting platform, alongside traditional MGA and program roles gives Hausman direct experience on both sides of the technology-versus-traditional-underwriting divide that the trucking insurance market is currently navigating.
For retail and wholesale brokers placing non-fleet and small fleet commercial trucking risk, Hausman's hire signals Corgi is building genuine underwriting depth in this class rather than approaching it as a commodity line available through its admitted carrier paper.
His stated network across retail and direct-to-consumer distribution, MGAs, embedded partners and transportation businesses suggests Corgi intends to reach this segment through multiple distribution channels rather than a single route to market.
Brokers active in trucking should watch for Corgi's appetite guidelines and program parameters as Hausman's team builds out the offering, particularly given his specific experience at Nirvana and CSMV in defining non-fleet underwriting rules from the ground up.
