The Houston Marine & Energy Insurance Conference thanks our 2018 Sponsors:
Platinum/Admiral Sponsors:
Cobbs Allen is a boutique risk management and insurance brokerage firm providing market-leading service in traditional commercial insurance, employee benefits, alternative risk financing and structured solutions. Founded in 1887 and headquartered in Birmingham, AL, with offices in Columbus, Houston, New Orleans, New York, Kansas City and Tulsa, the firm is one of few remaining that is still owned and led by its employees.
With deep domestic, London and international market relationships, the Houston office represents the Cobbs Allen energy practice group. The team is led by veteran energy insurance brokers and a former underwriter. Their account experience includes onshore/offshore E&P, midstream, service contractors domestically and international. The team is proficient in providing technical risk analyses and reviewing insurance contracts as they pertain to requirements of master service agreement, purchase sales agreements, lease agreements and joint operating agreements. They also offer a dedicated loss control department and provide expertise in claims negotiations and settlements.
Gold/Captain Sponsors:
Established in Houston in 1962,and now trusted globally for our professional and efficient service. MatthewsDaniel provides a broad range of pre and post risk expertise to insurers and insureds, with particular emphasis on the enrgy, marine petrochemical, mining, utilities and heavy engineering industries. Our quality and standards are intrinsic to our leading market position in the loss adjusting and marine warranty sectors, and we strive for constant and consistent improvement. Being part of the Bureau Veritas group of companies enables us to offer clients increased geographical diversification and local representation together with access to a greater depth of resources utilising in-house laboratories and specialist staff.
Roanoke Insurance Group enables global commerce by providing insurance, surety and risk management solutions for trade and transportation. Headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois, Roanoke has sales, service and underwriting locations throughout the United States and a network of sister service companies in Asia and Europe. A part of Munich Re Specialty Group Ltd., a lloyd’s of London Coverholder and a Managing General Agent for American Alternative Insurance Corporation (AAIC), Roanoke is equipped to meet client needs worldwide.
Verisk provides data analytic insights to customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services to help them make better, faster, and more focused decisions that minimize risk and maximize value.
Verisk’s Energy and Insurance division is focused on transforming risk assessment and benchmarking for the oil and gas, petrochemical, and power generation industries. Verisk provides global data analytic tools and insights to help insurers underwrite with more precision, improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and grow in this challenging market.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading global insurance organization. Founded in 1919, today AIG member companies provide a wide range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement products, and other financial services to customers in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. These diverse offerings include products and services that help businesses and individuals protect their assets, manage risks and provide for retirement security. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Silver/Commander Sponsors:
Berkley Offshore Underwriting Managers
Underwriting specialists for the upstream offshore and onshore oil & gas industry.
Pierpont partners with global energy and maritime companies to develop PR and digital communications programs that enhance and protect corporate reputations and drive strategic narratives among customers, industry influencers, regulators and key stakeholders. Recognized as an energy PR and digital branding & marketing powerhouse, Pierpont has deep experience across the entire oil and gas value chain, logistics and shipping, including law and insurance.
Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.
Since 1951 Thompson Coe has provided legal service to its marine, energy and related insurance clients. With offices in Dallas, Austin, Houston and New Orleans, Thompson Coe has geographic reach and depth of experience to represent its Marine and Energy clients across the Gulf Coast and throughout Texas and Louisiana. Thompson Coe’s Marine and Energy division is led by seasoned attorneys engaged in a broad spectrum of litigation arising in the marine and energy industry including Jones Act disputes, injuries to rig hands, well blowouts, pipeline accidents, pollution claims, down hole incidents, indemnity disputes and related insurance coverage issues.
McGriff’s Energy & Marine Division offers specialty services for clients with worldwide operations and potentially catastrophic exposures. Our expertise in this niche industry has made us one of the largest independent energy brokers in the U.S. and one of the top five energy brokers worldwide.
Navigators is a global specialty insurance company. We provide customized insurance solutions designed to protect clients from the complex risks they face. For more than 40 years, Navigators has added value for policyholders—both in underwriting and in claims—through the depth and quality of our technical and industry expertise. Industries we serve include maritime, construction, energy, environmental, professional services and life sciences. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Navigators has offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit navg.com.
Ascot is a global specialist in insurance and reinsurance, built on a foundation of underwriting expertise. We offer our clients the expertise and security of a large insurer while maintaining a personal approach to their risks.
Aspen Insurance is an established leader in many of our chosen markets. Each of our business lines is run by a group of highly respected and experienced industry experts with in-depth knowledge of the industries we serve, as well as an exceptional ability to create targeted product solutions. We operate on both a global and regional product basis.
Resolve Marine Group, Inc. is a leading global provider of marine regulatory compliance, emergency response, salvage and wreck removal services and maritime training. The global regulatory compliance service includes USA OPA 90 SMFF Coverage, 1-Call Alaska APC service and 1-Call China SPRO service providing clients with flexible and creative means to marine solutions and a partnership in response. Resolve’s core business is Emergency Response and this commitment is reflected through the investment in strategic footprint. In addition to 23 OPA-90 SMFF depots nationwide, Resolve has more fully stocked and owned response warehouses globally than any other provider. The company now has offices and response bases in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Singapore, India, China, and South Africa.
Travelers Oil & Gas has more than 30 years of proven performance in providing tailored insurance programs for businesses engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. With our broad array of coverage offerings and our integrated approach to exclusively serving our oil and gas customers with dedicated underwriters, claim specialists and risk control professionals, we think our experience in, and commitment to, your industry is unmatched. We welcome an opportunity to demonstrate for you why so many businesses in the U.S. oil and gas industry trust us for their risk management and risk transfer needs.
Bronze/Ensign Sponsors:
ESi is a full-service engineering investigation and consulting firm with locations coast-to-coast, serving clients across a global footprint. With state-of-the-art facilities and highly qualified professionals in almost every discipline, ESi is well-equipped to help clients with their most challenging technical issues.
James River Insurance Company is headquartered in Richmond, VA and underwrites a wide variety of specialty P&C and Professional risks on an E&S basis in all 50 states. Founded in 2003, James River is rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best Co. with a financial size rating of IX ($250 million-$500 million.) Parent: James River Group Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ: JRVR).
Lloyd’s is the world’s insurance and reinsurance market. Led by expert underwriters and brokers in more than 200 territories, the Lloyd’s market develops essential, complete and critical insurance needed in the face of rising in certainty and rapidly evolving, complex risks. In the US, Lloyd’s is eligible to write surplus lines and is an accredited reinsurance in all 50 US states.
Clyde & Co is a global law firm with a focus on its core sectors of insurance, marine, energy, infrastructure, natural resources, aviation and trade With over 1,500 lawyers operating from over 50 offices and associated offices on six continents, the firm advises its clients on a wide range of coverage, dispute resolution and transactional matters.
Full service law firm with offices in New Orleans, Houston, Baton Rouge and Lake Charles.
Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.
Alliant Energy and Marine is comprised of professionals focused exclusively on providing best-in-class risk management and insurance solutions to the energy and marine industries. Alliant’s technical expertise help guard against the vast array of risks facing companies that operate across the farthest reaches of the globe.
As an industrial insurer with a tradition spanning more than a century, HDI prides itself on being a trusted and reliable partner. Our international network of local insurers in more than 150 countries, broad product array, and superior service allow us to create innovative solutions that keep our clients moving forward.
S-E-A offers multi-disciplined forensic engineering, fire investigations and failure analysis. Our full-time staff consists of engineers, fire investigators, industrial hygienists and visualization experts.
Atlantic Marine Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of surveying, consulting and expert witness services. AMA’s highly professional staff seeks to deliver exceptional value to clients through the intimate understanding of their needs. We’re located in NYC, Savannah, Houston and London, in addition to Boston, Baltimore, Miami, and San Francisco.
An energy insurance litigation firm with unparalleled knowledge and experience in energy coverages.
The admiralty and maritime practice at Jones Walker LLP has been a significant part of the firm’s growth and success since its inception in 1937. Today, Jones Walker has one of the largest and most experienced maritime practice groups in the country, handling brown water, blue water, and offshore energy matters.
Galloway Law Firm is a Gulf South based litigation firm with twelve convenient office locations throughout the Gulf South and Midwest, including: Houston, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Lafayette, Louisiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mandeville, Louisiana; Gulfport, Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama; Pensacola, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; and St. Louis, Missouri.
Founded in 1892, Royston Rayzor has an international reputation as a top-ranked firm serving companies and their underwriters in the marine and energy sectors. Royston Rayzor handles matters throughout Texas from five offices in Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley.
HFW is a leading global law firm in the aerospace, commodities, construction, energy, insurance and shipping sectors. The firm has almost 600 lawyers, including 180 partners, based in 19 offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. HFW prides itself on its deep industry expertise and its entrepreneurial, creative and collaborative culture.
With offices positioned along the Gulf Coast from Houston to Tampa, Phelps Dunbar is a law firm of 260 attorneys uniquely equipped to serve clients in the major commercial centers of the burgeoning “Third Coast” of the United States as well as across the country and internationally. Phelps Dunbar represents a diverse client base with a specialty in maritime law.
In 2018, Marsh acquired Wortham Insurance to form Marsh Wortham, a division of Marsh USA Inc. The combination of our firms provides the opportunity to deliver even greater value to our clients, provide outstanding local service with an entrepreneurial spirit, while bringing our collective world-class expertise to businesses and individuals across the region.
More than 6,500 professionals at Lockton provide more than 50,000 clients around the world with risk management, insurance, retirement, and employee benefits consulting services that improve their businesses. From its founding in 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri, Lockton has attracted entrepreneurial professionals who have driven its growth to become the largest privately held, independent insurance broker in the world and 10th largest overall. Peerless in our approach, advice, innovation and impact, we offer our clients unparalleled access to experts around the globe.
Boutique structured settlement(s) and Medicare Set-Aside(s) firm.
Clark Hill Strasburger is a full-service, international law firm that draws on our attorneys’ comprehensive industry and policy knowledge and a global network of industry advisors and subject-matter experts to provide innovative legal solutions and client-service excellence worldwide. Our work is guided by our deeply held shared values, including practicality, entrepreneurship, mutual respect, diversity, ethical behavior, and a commitment to client and community service.
Forensic Engineering.
Established in 1846, Mills Shirley is the oldest continuously operating law firm in Texas. The firm is well known for providing excellent service and pursuing the most favorable possible results for its maritime and energy-related clients in state and federal jurisdictions throughout Texas.
Eggleston & Briscoe, LLP provides legal services of the highest quality in the courtroom and boardroom. The firm’s practice areas include insurance coverage and defense and complex business litigation.
A natural gas liquefaction and LNG export facility.
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Founded in New York in 1917, celebrating 100 years of service, the American Club is the only P&I mutual domiciled in the Americas. Part of the International Group, it offers full cover for Protection and Indemnity and Freight, Demurrage and Defense risks and has in recent years grown and globalized its tonnage.
SIS Risk Management’s mission is to be the World’s leading consultants on complex risk assessment and management. The insurance transaction is the primary vehicle we use to deliver our services from energy to cyber risks and beyond. Our aim is to make the World a safer place and insurance a more valuable investment.
Braemar is a leading international provider of knowledge and skill-based services to the shipping, marine, energy, offshore and insurance industries. The Group comprises four operating divisions, Shipbroking, Financial, Technical (including Adjusting and Marine Surveying) and Logistics. These work together to offer a unique combination of skills for clients, at anytime, anywhere in the world.
Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea & BenMaier PLLC
Integrity. Proven Results. Experienced Representation. These are just some of the fundamental principles upon which SBSB Law was founded. We are a group of experienced attorneys who understand what our clients want and need. Thankful for a loyal client base spanning decades, SBSB Law is prepared to partner with you.
