Headquarters:
Montreal, QC, Canada
Year founded:
1954
Number of employees:
52 partners, 88 lawyers, 113 support staff
Phone:
514 866 6743
Email:
info@duntonrainville.com
Website:
duntonrainville.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/dunton-rainville
“PFR at Markel is making important structural changes to support more defined product differentiation between professional liability and management liability”
Christopher Kelen,
Markel Canada
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DUNTON RAINVILLE LLP
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Chairman of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Vice President of the Board
Paul André Martel
Member of the Board
Leadership
Jean-Jacques Rainville began his career in the City of Montreal’s legal department, after which he joined the legal department of the City of Longueuil as a director. He later became a partner and chairman of the board at Dunton Rainville, where his practice focuses primarily on administrative law, public law, labour relations and municipal law. He represents many private, public and para-public-sector employers, and has frequently pleaded before all judicial bodies, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also presented many bills before the Québec National Assembly and negotiated numerous contracts and collective agreements.
Chairman of the Board
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Yanick Tanguay has extensive experience in municipal law, labour and employment law and administrative law. He is especially familiar with municipal issues and assists various public bodies in the development of their territory, as well as with associated environmental issues. He advises and represents several municipal and supra-municipal bodies before the courts. In the area of labour and employment, he advises managers regarding individual and collective labour relations and essential services.
Vice President of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Paul André Martel is a partner who works in several areas at Dunton Rainville, including banking law and commercial and transactional law. He represents several financial institutions in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He also advises them in major files involving the financing or refinancing of shares and real estate projects. He has drafted numerous important commercial agreements, and has a solid reputation for his expert ability to intervene in the most important transactions, whatever they may be.
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Paul André Martel
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DUNTON RAINVILLE LLP
Aaron Z. Makovka
Member of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Vice President
of the Board
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Chairman
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Leadership
Headquarters:
Montreal, QC, Canada
Year founded:
1954
Number of employees:
52 partners, 88 lawyers,
113 support staff
Phone:
514 866 6743
Email:
info@duntonrainville.com
Website:
duntonrainville.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/dunton-rainville
Jean-Jacques Rainville began his career in the City of Montreal’s legal department, after which he joined the legal department of the City of Longueuil as a director. He later became a partner and chairman of the board at Dunton Rainville, where his practice focuses primarily on administrative law, public law, labour relations and municipal law. He represents many private, public and para-public-sector employers, and has frequently pleaded before all judicial bodies, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also presented many bills before the Québec National Assembly and negotiated numerous contracts and collective agreements.
Chairman of the Board
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Yanick Tanguay has extensive experience in municipal law, labour and employment law and administrative law. He is especially familiar with municipal issues and assists various public bodies in the development of their territory, as well as with associated environmental issues. He advises and represents several municipal and supra-municipal bodies before the courts. In the area of labour and employment, he advises managers regarding individual and collective labour relations and essential services.
Vice President of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Aaron Z Makovka specializes in labour, employment law and administrative law. As a skilled negotiator with particular expertise in labour standards, employment contracts, grievance arbitration and occupational health and safety, he regularly represents his clients before various labour tribunals and other administrative bodies across Canada, as well as before the civil courts. He has considerable experience in claims made under the Act Respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases, as well as in those involving human rights issues and labour and employment standards.
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Aaron Z. Makovka
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For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
“PFR at Markel is making important structural changes to support more defined product differentiation between professional liability and management liability”
Christopher Kelen,
Markel Canada
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DUNTON RAINVILLE LLP
Marie Annik Walsh
Member of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Vice President
of the Board
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Chairman
of the Board
Leadership
Headquarters:
Montreal, QC, Canada
Year founded:
1954
Number of employees:
55 partners, 88 lawyers,
113 support staff
Phone:
647 269 9780
Email:
info@duntonrainville.com
Website:
duntonrainville.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/
dunton-rainville
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Jean-Jacques Rainville began his career in the City of Montreal’s legal department, after which he joined the legal department of the City of Longueuil as a director. He later became a partner and chairman of the board at Dunton Rainville, where his practice focuses primarily on administrative law, public law, labour relations and municipal law. He represents many private, public and para-public-sector employers, and has frequently pleaded before all judicial bodies, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also presented many bills before the Québec National Assembly and negotiated numerous contracts and collective agreements.
Chairman of the Board
Jean-Jacques Rainville
Yanick Tanguay has extensive experience in municipal law, labour and employment law and administrative law. He is especially familiar with municipal issues and assists various public bodies in the development of their territory, as well as with associated environmental issues. He advises and represents several municipal and supra-municipal bodies before the courts. In the area of labour and employment, he advises managers regarding individual and collective labour relations and essential services.
Vice President of the Board
Yanick Tanguay
Aaron Z Makovka specializes in labour, employment law and administrative law. As a skilled negotiator with particular expertise in labour standards, employment contracts, grievance arbitration and occupational health and safety, he regularly represents his clients before various labour tribunals and other administrative bodies across Canada, as well as before the civil courts. He has considerable experience in claims made under the Act Respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases, as well as in those involving human rights issues and labour and employment standards.
Member of the Board
Aaron Z. Makovka
For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
Aaron Z. Makovka
Member of the Board
Aaron Z Makovka specializes in labour, employment law and administrative law. As a skilled negotiator with particular expertise in labour standards, employment contracts, grievance arbitration and occupational health and safety, he regularly represents his clients before various labour tribunals and other administrative bodies across Canada, as well as before the civil courts. He has considerable experience in claims made under the Act Respecting Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases, as well as in those involving human rights issues and labour and employment standards.
Member of the Board
Aaron Z. Makovka
Paul André Martel
Member of the Board
Paul André Martel is a partner who works in several areas at Dunton Rainville, including banking law and commercial and transactional law. He represents several financial institutions in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He also advises them in major files involving the financing or refinancing of shares and real estate projects. He has drafted numerous important commercial agreements, and has a solid reputation for his expert ability to intervene in the most important transactions, whatever they may be.
Member of the Board
Paul André Martel
Paul André Martel
Member of the Board
Paul André Martel is a partner who works in several areas at Dunton Rainville, including banking law and commercial and transactional law. He represents several financial institutions in bankruptcy and insolvency matters. He also advises them in major files involving the financing or refinancing of shares and real estate projects. He has drafted numerous important commercial agreements, and has a solid reputation for his expert ability to intervene in the most important transactions, whatever they may be.
Member of the Board
Paul André Martel
Marie Annik Walsh
Member of the Board
Me Marie Annik Walsh is a partner at Dunton Rainville and has focused her practice primarily on family law for over twenty years.
Me Walsh is also President of the Association des avocats et avocates en droit familial du Québec (AAADFQ), after being a member of its board of directors since 1998 and served as its treasurer for over ten years. This new challenge led to participate in the parliamentary commission hearings regarding access to justice, where she had a ringside seat during the legislative changes to the spousal support review process.
Member of the Board
Marie Annik Walsh
Marie Annik Walsh
Member of the Board
Me Marie Annik Walsh is a partner at Dunton Rainville and has focused her practice primarily on family law for over twenty years.
Me Walsh is also President of the Association des avocats et avocates en droit familial du Québec (AAADFQ), after being a member of its board of directors since 1998 and served as its treasurer for over ten years. This new challenge led to participate in the parliamentary commission hearings regarding access to justice, where she had a ringside seat
during the legislative changes to the spousal support review process.
Member of the Board
Marie Annik Walsh
Aaron Z. Makovka
Member of the Board
Me Marie Annik Walsh is a partner at Dunton Rainville and has focused her practice primarily on family law for over twenty years.
Me Walsh is also President of the Association des avocats et avocates en droit familial du Québec (AAADFQ), after being a member of its board of directors since 1998 and served as its treasurer for over ten years. This new challenge led to participate in the parliamentary commission hearings regarding access to justice, where she had a ringside seat during the legislative changes to the spousal support review process.
Member of the Board
Marie Annik Walsh
The pandemic of the past two years has created significant challenges, and Québec’s Dunton Rainville LLP has been swept up in them as much as any law firm can be.
“Society has had to reinvent itself to deal with strict health measures,” says the firm’s chairman, Jean-Jacques Rainville. “Both family and professional life have been turned upside down, resulting in changes in all aspects of behaviour and methods of operation.”
Law firms such as Dunton Rainville have had to adapt and manage change in order to continue to provide services safely during the pandemic, given that legal services are considered an essential service. Proper health protocols had to be implemented for those having to access Dunton Rainville’s offices, while adjustments had to be made to allow for remote work options.
However, this challenge has also presented an opportunity for the 68-year-old firm, especially in the areas of labour and employment law and family law. Even the enactment of the new Act to Modernize the Occupational Health and Safety System, while not directly linked to the pandemic, “is certainly not unrelated to this state of affairs,” says Rainville.
At Dunton Rainville, labour and employment law and family law are two practice areas that have grown over the years to optimize its offerings to clients, as this area of law is undergoing rapid change. In addition, its sister firm, DR Conseils, has led in assisting businesses in all aspects of occupational health and safety management. Since 2018, the firm has grown significantly, expanding the employee count from 180 to nearly 260.
As for family law, the pandemic has had a considerable impact on family
life and mental health, Rainville says, and family law reform “will be a
game changer.”
Other areas of legislation in Québec will also be affected in 2022 for various reasons, including health law, environmental law and governance.
The firm is expected to continue its expansion in 2022, something that
may be “a major challenge over the next few years, given the potential
market disruptions caused by inflation that could turn the economic landscape upside down.”
The primary target market for Québec law firms, the mid-market in general, is likely to be affected by this situation. However, Dunton Rainville is in a position to pursue its growth because it provides multidisciplinary legal services.
Working with other firms as part of that expansion is also an option. Rainville says his firm “will make every effort to seize opportunities to integrate with well-established firms that enjoy an excellent reputation and share our values.”
Recruitment is another part of this strategy, with a special focus on the next generation by hiring young professionals. The firm’s work environment allows young professionals to make the most of their entrepreneurial spirit and passion for law, he says. “Everything is put in place to enable our professionals to be creative, stand out, achieve their goals and succeed. They can think outside the box, use their imagination, share innovative ideas and be creative.”
Dunton Rainville has offices in Montreal, Joliette, Laval, Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Jérôme and Sherbrooke. Its professionals possess cutting-edge expertise and the firm acts in commercial; banking and transactional matters; real estate and notarial matters; labour, employment and immigration law; public, municipal, education and health law; as well as civil, insurance, construction and family law. Dunton Rainville is a member of the SCG Legal worldwide network of leading law firms. The firm’s lawyers distinguish themselves through their continuous pursuit of excellence and their ability to provide clients with the most efficient solutions. Respect, integrity, loyalty, diversity, inclusiveness, transparency and the dedication to client satisfaction are the firm’s core values. Dunton Rainville serves a large clientele of private and public corporations, financial institutions,
multinational companies and SMEs, and represents several government
and para-government corporations.
Chris McDonald
AVP,
Professional Liability
Paul Mayer
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Chris McDonald joined Markel Canada in October 2018 as a senior underwriter, bringing over 15 years of underwriting experience to his role. Since then, he has progressed to his current role of AVP, professional liability, managing a national team and providing council and mentorship to the entire PFR team. Chris has a deep and technical understanding of professional and management liability and has both underwritten and helped develop products in emerging industries, including cyber and fintech.
Prior to his role at Markel, Chris had a lengthy career with Encon (now Victor) where his roles progressed from underwriting to managing various divisions within their professional and management risks department. He brings an incredible skillset to his role and is well-versed in underwriting complex risks. A team player, Chris is generous with helping develop his team and brings positivity to all of his endeavors both internally and with Markel’s national broker networks. His certifications include RIBO, CRM and RPLU.
AVP, Professional Liability
Chris McDonald
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Chris McDonald
AVP,
Professional Liability
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
Chris McDonald joined Markel Canada in October 2018 as a senior underwriter, bringing over 15 years of underwriting experience to his role. Since then, he has progressed to his current role of AVP, professional liability, managing a national team and providing council and mentorship to the entire PFR team. Chris has a deep and technical understanding of professional and management liability and has both underwritten and helped develop products in emerging industries, including cyber and fintech.
Prior to his role at Markel, Chris had a lengthy career with Encon (now Victor) where his roles progressed from underwriting to managing various divisions within their professional and management risks department. He brings an incredible skillset to his role and is well-versed in underwriting complex risks. A team player, Chris is generous with helping develop his team and brings positivity to all of his endeavors both internally and with Markel’s national broker networks. His certifications include RIBO, CRM and RPLU.
AVP, Professional Liability
Chris McDonald
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Chris McDonald
AVP,
Professional Liability
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Chris McDonald joined Markel Canada in October 2018 as a senior underwriter, bringing over 15 years of underwriting experience to his role. Since then, he has progressed to his current role of AVP, professional liability, managing a national team and providing council and mentorship to the entire PFR team. Chris has a deep and technical understanding of professional and management liability and has both underwritten and helped develop products in emerging industries, including cyber and fintech.
Prior to his role at Markel, Chris had a lengthy career with Encon (now Victor) where his roles progressed from underwriting to managing various divisions within their professional and management risks department. He brings an incredible skillset to his role and is well-versed in underwriting complex risks. A team player, Chris is generous with helping develop his team and brings positivity to all of his endeavors both internally and with Markel’s national broker networks. His certifications include RIBO, CRM and RPLU.
AVP, Professional Liability
Chris McDonald
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French,
and German, and has an understanding
of Spanish.
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential
lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Furthermore, growth has empowered the PFR team to acquire some of the best and brightest underwriting talent in Canada.
Kelen heads the PFR team and has underwriting representation and authority across all provinces and territories. With domestic capacity and claims handling being one of the strongest benefits of choosing to bind business with Markel Canada, they’re equally backed and supported by Markel International, their professional indemnity team, and have access to knowledge and resources from experts in the PFR landscape. This allows Markel Canada to seamlessly integrate and enhance new products, policyholder services and underwriting practices into their offering with confidence. This enables Markel Canada’s brokers and clients to feel informed, protected and supported from the moment they approach them for a quote.
What’s in the near future for the Markel PFR team? “PFR at Markel is making important structural changes to support more defined product differentiation between professional liability and management liability,” Kelen says. “Part of this change includes underwriters and leadership dedicated to professional liability, which includes fintech, tech E&O and cyber, as well as a similar structure dedicated to management liability and financial institutions.”
Chris McDonald was promoted to AVP, professional liability in 2021 and manages 4 underwriters as part of that team. The team is also hiring for the AVP, management liability and FI position.
“Our ultimate goal is to add products to our PFR repertoire that make sense and that we can offer a truly unique perspective and value to. However, our ambitions do not merely lay in expansion, and the PFR team is more committed to bettering the service and underwriting we currently offer. By remaining agile and on top of the market, we are building trusting and benevolent relationships with our amazing broker force – that is the plan now and forever,” says Kelen.
“By remaining agile and on top of the market, we are building trusting and benevolent relationships with our amazing broker force”
Christopher Kelen,
Markel Canada
Markel Canada is a leading P&C insurer that operates as a syndicate of Lloyd’s. The company is a leader in liability, with developing specialty sectors and user-friendly online business solutions. Markel’s three Canadian offices house market-leading underwriters who work with clients to offer optimal risk management solutions, while their dedicated claims team ensures each claim is handled promptly, professionally and fairly. Their parent company, Markel International, is a subsidiary of Markel Corporation, a
US-based holding company for insurance and investment operations around the world.
Professional and financial risks (PFR) is a significant business area for Markel both in Canada and across their global operations. PFR in Canada covers their extensive professional liability and management liability appetite, and also includes their Cyber 360, fintech and financial institutions products.
What distinguishes the PFR team from the competition? “At Markel Canada, we have seen a surplus of sustainable growth in our PFR department, and it’s due to a few different factors,” says Christopher Kelen, vice president of PFR. “Firstly, our product suite; historically, Markel’s MGA-based roots placed us as a specialty market with the ability to write a lot of very niche risks. Although this is still true, our team has done a lot of work to help redefine our appetite and rolled out clearer products and underwriting practices to help establish who we are in the PFR landscape.”
An example of this is their fintech product. As one of the only providers, Markel was able to position itself as a leader in the field. Other offerings and examples include providing an internal Canadian claims team, offering the Markel Connect product that delivers online solutions for small business
E&O and D&O, as well as the ability to deploy excess limit capacity on the D&O and E&O towers of some of Canada’s larger companies.
“By remaining agile and on
top of the market, we are building trusting and benevolent relationships with our amazing broker force”
Christopher Kelen,
Markel Canada
Furthermore, growth has empowered the PFR team to acquire some of the best and brightest underwriting talent
in Canada.
Kelen heads the PFR team and has underwriting representation and authority across all provinces and territories. With domestic capacity and claims handling being one of the strongest benefits of choosing to bind business with Markel Canada, they’re equally backed and supported by Markel International, their professional indemnity team, and have access to knowledge and resources from experts in the PFR landscape. This allows Markel Canada to seamlessly integrate and enhance new products, policyholder services and underwriting practices into their offering with confidence. This enables Markel Canada’s brokers and clients to feel informed, protected and supported from the moment they approach them for a quote.
What’s in the near future for the Markel PFR team? “PFR at Markel is making important structural changes to support more defined product differentiation between professional liability and management liability,” Kelen says. “Part of this change includes underwriters and leadership dedicated to professional liability, which includes fintech, tech E&O and cyber, as well as a similar structure dedicated to management liability and financial institutions.”
Markel Canada is a leading P&C insurer that operates as a syndicate of Lloyd’s. The company is a leader in liability, with developing specialty sectors and user-friendly online business solutions. Markel’s three Canadian offices house market-leading underwriters who work with clients to offer optimal risk management solutions, while their dedicated claims team ensures each claim is handled promptly, professionally and fairly. Their parent company, Markel International, is a subsidiary of Markel Corporation, a US-based holding company for insurance and investment operations around the world.
Professional and financial risks (PFR) is a significant business area for Markel both in Canada and across their global operations. PFR in Canada covers their extensive professional liability and management liability appetite, and also includes their Cyber 360, fintech and financial institutions products.
What distinguishes the PFR team from the competition? “At Markel Canada, we have seen a surplus of sustainable growth in our PFR department, and it’s due to a few different factors,” says Christopher Kelen, vice president of PFR. “Firstly, our product suite; historically, Markel’s MGA-based roots placed us as a specialty market with the ability to write a lot of very niche risks. Although this is still true, our team has done a lot of work to help redefine our appetite and rolled out clearer products and underwriting practices to help establish who we are in the PFR landscape.”
An example of this is their fintech product. As one of the only providers, Markel was able to position itself as a leader in the field. Other offerings and examples include providing an internal Canadian claims team, offering the Markel Connect product that delivers online solutions for small business E&O and D&O, as well as the ability to deploy excess limit capacity on the D&O
and E&O towers of some of Canada’s
larger companies.
“By remaining agile and
on top of the market, we are building trusting and benevolent relationships with our amazing
broker force”
Christopher Kelen,
Markel Canada
Furthermore, growth has empowered the PFR team to acquire some of the best and brightest underwriting talent in Canada.
Kelen heads the PFR team and has underwriting representation and authority across all provinces and territories. With domestic capacity and claims handling being one of the strongest benefits of choosing to bind business with Markel Canada, they’re equally backed and supported by Markel International, their professional indemnity team, and have access to knowledge and resources from experts in the PFR landscape. This allows Markel Canada to seamlessly integrate and enhance new products, policyholder services and underwriting practices into their offering with confidence. This enables Markel Canada’s brokers and clients to feel informed, protected and supported from the moment they approach them for a quote.
What’s in the near future for the Markel
PFR team? “PFR at Markel is making important structural changes to support more defined product differentiation between professional liability and management liability,” Kelen says.
“Part of this change includes underwriters and leadership dedicated to professional liability, which includes fintech, tech E&O and cyber, as well as a similar structure dedicated to management liability and financial institutions.”