CRC’s Johnston Joins RT Specialty to Establish Alabama Office

R-T Specialty, LLC has hired senior property broker J. Mason Johnston to establish the wholesale broker’s Birmingham, Ala., office, where he will serve as president.

Johnston is a property and builder’s risk specialist and joins RT Specialty from CRC Insurance Services where he has been since 2001. Prior to CRC, Johnston was a treaty reinsurance underwriter with Hartford Reinsurance on multiline per risk and catastrophe treaties.

According to Tim Turner, chairman and CEO of RT Specialty, Johnston will establish RT Specialty’s presence with the opening of the Birmingham office and the company plans to further develop this market.

R-T Specialty, LLC (RT), a subsidiary of Ryan Specialty Group, LLC, provides wholesale brokerage and other services to agents and brokers. RT is a Delaware limited liability company based in Illinois.