Everest Expands Professional Liability with West Coast Office

Everest Re Group Ltd. is expanding its professional liability insurance operation, Everest Specialty Unit (ESU), with the opening of a west coast regional office.

Currently based in New York, ESU will be establishing its west coast facility in Oakland, Calif. to reach its target customers in that region.

The new unit will be led by Cary Nichols, who has been appointed vice president of ESU’s west coast region. Nichols will report to John Iannotti, senior vice president of the division and will be responsible for developing both the professional liability book for financial institutions and the directors and officers book.

“With the opening of our West Coast regional office, we can leverage ESU’s professional liability capabilities to support financial institutions and directors and officers in that region, further establishing our expertise in these lines,” Iannotti said in a statement.

Nichols joins Everest with more than 15 years of management liability underwriting experience, most recently as a regional vice president of the executive assurance division of Arch Insurance Group. Prior to Arch, Nichols worked in the management liability groups of Executive Risk and Chubb Specialty Insurance.