A busy week of appointments across the US specialty, wholesale, insurtech and claims sectors has seen CRC Group restructure its senior leadership around a newly built underwriting platform.
Meanwhile, Liberty Mutual has confirmed a long-anticipated international promotion, and a California wildfire MGA has added a major carrier executive as it scales toward a million homes insured.
CRC Group has made two significant leadership moves that reflect the scale of the wholesale distributor's transformation into a diversified underwriting platform.
Bethany Greenwood (pictured, left) has been named chief executive officer of the underwriting division, overseeing Starwind Specialty, AmRisc, Atrium and Euclid Transactional. Greenwood brings more than 25 years of specialty insurance experience across brokerage, underwriting and executive management, most recently based in London as head of specialty risks for a global specialty insurance and reinsurance firm.
The appointment comes after an aggressive period of platform construction. CRC completed its acquisition of Lloyd's managing agency Atrium, which manages Syndicate 609 and generated $1.3 billion in gross written premiums in 2024, and separately announced the purchase of Euclid Transactional, a global MGA specializing in representations and warranties and tax liability insurance with 11 offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Simultaneously, CRC has created a new Risk Solutions Division and named Bill Goldstein to lead it as head of strategic partnerships, capacity and capital solutions. Goldstein, who previously served as CEO of the CRC Underwriting Division, will develop proprietary capacity structures and alternative risk vehicles across the organization.
CRC has already built a track record in this space, including the $580 million Trouvaille Re collateralized reinsurance sidecar through AmRisc and the $270 million Fractal Re casualty quota share sidecar through Starwind, as well as ILS-linked capacity for data center risks.
Goldstein said: "By combining innovative structures, strong carrier relationships, and CRC's market capabilities, we have a tremendous opportunity to deliver differentiated solutions across the insurance marketplace."
Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Defne Turkes (pictured, center) as president and managing director of Liberty International Insurance, the international division of Global Risk Solutions, effective July 1, 2026.
Singapore-based Turkes, who has served as LII chief operating officer since 2024, will lead commercial insurance internationally and retail markets in Asia, reporting to GRS president Matthew Moore. She succeeds Phil Hobbs, who has moved into the role of president of underwriting at GRS.
Turkes joined Liberty in 2006 as CFO in Turkey and progressed through senior roles across Asia, including president of the Asia retail businesses.
Delos Insurance Solutions has appointed Wendy Cammet (pictured, right) to the newly created role of chief product officer.
Cammet joins from Foremost Insurance, a Farmers Insurance company, where she served as president and oversaw growth of more than $1.5 billion in gross written premium.
Delos, founded in San Francisco in 2017 by aerospace engineers, uses data analytics and machine learning to underwrite homes in wildfire-prone California communities that standard carriers have abandoned.
The state's FAIR Plan enrollment jumped 43% to 668,609 between September 2024 and December 2025 as the mainstream market contracted. During the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, Delos reported zero insured losses across its 25,000-policy portfolio, a result the company attributed to its model's focus on fire behavior physics rather than historical burn patterns. Over the past 12 months, the company expanded eligibility to more than one million additional homes in wildfire-stressed California locations.
Kevin Stein, CEO of Delos, said Cammet's appointment supports the company's ambition to insure a million homes with stable, long-term coverage.
Insight Service Group has appointed Michael Sieger (pictured immediately above), former claims group president at Progressive Insurance, to its board of advisors, its third senior board addition in 2026.
Sieger spent 32 years at Progressive, retiring in 2022, and oversaw claims strategy and operational performance across the company's growth into one of the nation's leading P&C insurers. ISG provides integrated claims and litigation support services, combining independent medical examinations, record retrieval, clinical services, investigations and workflow technology for carrier clients.
Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance has appointed Courtney Flanagan (pictured immediately above) as vice president of claims, succeeding John Kennealy, who retires in August 2026 after 43 years in the industry.
Flanagan joins from Encova Insurance Company, where she led litigation operations across more than 20 jurisdictions and oversaw commercial casualty claims strategy.
PLM, which covers more than 5,500 wood industry businesses nationwide, is navigating a claims environment where Canadian lumber tariffs of up to 40% are pushing replacement costs higher and raising co-insurance risk for policyholders whose coverage limits have not kept pace.
