PEMBROKE, Bermuda, Sept. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:ENH), a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, today announced that Sean M. Fitzpatrick will join Endurance in the new role of President and Head of U.S. Property and Casualty Retail Insurance. In this role, Mr. Fitzpatrick will be responsible for leading our initiative to expand Endurance's presence in the U.S. specialty retail market. Mr. Fitzpatrick has more than twenty years experience in senior level insurance industry roles and has successfully managed and developed specialty property and casualty businesses throughout his career. He will join Endurance on October 1, 2011 reporting to William M. Jewett, President of Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., and will be located in New York City.
Mr. Jewett stated, "Sean's outstanding leadership ability, relationships in the broker community, and proven business development skills and underwriting capabilities will prove invaluable to Endurance as we continue to build out our insurance businesses. We are pleased to have someone of Sean's caliber join our organization in this new executive leadership role and are confident of his ability to successfully drive the continued development of our U.S. retail insurance operations. This new appointment will also enable Judy Hart, Head of Endurance Risk Solutions and our Insurance Operations in Bermuda, to focus her full attention on the Bermuda market and Endurance's healthcare practice."
Ms. Hart added, "I am looking forward to working with Sean as we continue to grow our insurance businesses. He is a very talented professional who will provide exceptional strategic direction and insight."
Most recently, Mr. Fitzpatrick was a Senior Vice President at The Hartford Financial Services Group where he led the company's Middle Market Property & Casualty and Specialty Financial segments. Prior to joining The Hartford, Mr. Fitzpatrick spent more than a decade with the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies and its Executive Risk subsidiary, where he established a number of specialty property and casualty businesses and served as chief underwriting officer of the company's specialty division, Chubb Specialty Insurance. He is a former president of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), and currently serves as an Adviser to the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Liability Insurance project. He holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Amherst College.
About Endurance Specialty Holdings
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. is a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance. Through its operating subsidiaries, Endurance writes property, casualty, healthcare liability, agriculture and professional lines of insurance and property, catastrophe, casualty, aerospace and marine, and surety and other specialty lines of reinsurance. We maintain excellent financial strength as evidenced by the ratings of A (Excellent) from A.M. Best (XV size category) and A (Strong) from Standard & Poor's. Endurance's headquarters are located at Wellesley House, 90 Pitts Bay Road, Pembroke HM 08, Bermuda and its mailing address is Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., Suite No. 784, No. 48 Par-la-Ville Road, Hamilton HM 11, Bermuda. For more information about Endurance, please visit http://www.endurance.bm/">http://www.endurance.bm.