Nexus Specialty Adds Schneider, Fayette in Chicago

Nexus Specialty has hired Katie Schneider as assistant vice president, Management & Professional Liability, in the group’s Chicago, Ill., office. The company also named William K. Fayette, senior underwriter, Management & Professional Liability, also based in Chicago.

Schneider will be responsible for helping build out Nexus Specialty’s MPL/E&O presence in the U.S. She has previously worked as an underwriter at Hiscox and most recently at Argo, where she was a senior underwriter leading the Midwest team for Miscellaneous Professional Liability.

Fayette previously worked at Berkley Select (former Monitor Liability), where he spent the last three years as a Private Company Management Liability underwriter working with brokers on a national basis.

A specialty managing general agent (MGA) headquartered in London, in the U.S., Nexus has offices in Chicago, Morristown, N.J., and New York City.

Source: Nexus Specialty