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Brightway, Riverside has added Adam Plante to its Jacksonville, Fla., location.

Plante has experience in contracts and sales and earned his law degree from State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from State University of New York at Oswego.

Brightway, Riverside is located at 2104 Park Street in downtown Jacksonville.

Brightway Insurance is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent agencies throughout the country.

Brightway provides its agency owners with access to insurance companies, along with a comprehensive system of support. Brightway began franchising operations in 2008 and has since grown to 770 people in 12 states serving customers in all 50 states.

Florida homeowners’ insurer Olympus Insurance Co. has promoted Bradley Burton to executive vice president of Underwriting and Business Development.

In his new role, Burton will lead the company’s underwriting, policy service and product development. He will also oversee the implementation and future modifications to the company’s new underwriting and policy management system, and oversee business development efforts.

Burton, who joined Olympus nine years ago, previously served as vice president of Underwriting.

After beginning his insurance career with Travelers Insurance Co., he held key management and executive underwriting roles for Southern Heritage Insurance Co., Florida Family Insurance Co. and Tower Hill Insurance Group.

Additionally, he owned and operated a Florida independent insurance agency.

Since joining Olympus, Burton is credited with introducing several rating methodologies.

Headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and founded in 2007, Olympus Insurance Co. specializes in Florida property insurance.

Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has added a new property broker, Aaron Reilly, to the Sarasota, Fla., office.

Reilly will be developing new business opportunities throughout the country in various property and casualty placements, including catastrophic wind, within the following classes: habitational, assisted living facilities, hotel/motels, religious organizations, retail strips/shopping centers and warehouses.

Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. is a full-service MGA and Wholesale Insurance Brokerage, providing independent agents a national outlet to multiple specialized markets for workers’ compensation, commercial specialty, and personal lines of insurance.

Beazley, a provider of specialist construction and engineering insurance, has appointed Santiago Jaramillo as construction and engineering focus group leader for Latin America.

Jaramillo will work out of the company’s expanding Miami office focused on serving the Latin American market.

Jaramillo is a civil engineer with over 18 years of experience in insurance/reinsurance and construction. He joins Beazley from Helvetia Latin America where he was head of engineering lines.

Beazley’s global construction team underwrites construction risks out of London, Singapore and the U.S.

The company is a leading underwriter on some of the world’s largest construction projects including the tallest building in Europe – The Shard; Hawaii’s Light Rail project and many others.

Beazley is also a founding member of the Lloyd’s Construction Consortium, an international market for construction risks with a capacity of up to $1 billion dollars on a sum insured basis.

Colin Rose, Beazley’s head of construction and engineering, said Jaramillo’s appointment continues the company’s expansion of its international construction offerings in Latin America through its new Miami hub.

SLB Insurance Group of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has hired Jeffrey Cunningham to lead its new Environmental Insurance division.

Cunningham started the new Environmental division for SLB’s Wholesale Insurance Brokerage in South Florida. He handles marketing and environmental insurance placements nationally.

Cunningham was formerly assistant vice president for Hub International.

SLB Insurance Group was founded in 2000 to distribute insurance products to retail agents who do not have access to premier markets due to agency size, coastal location, or company volume restrictions.