Burns & Wilcox Canada Strengthens Environmental Expertise

Kim Neale to support Environmental Centre of Excellence as Senior Environmental Underwriter

Toronto, ON – Burns & Wilcox Canada today announced that Kim Neale has joined its Toronto office as a Senior Environmental Underwriter and will support the expansion of the company’s Environmental Centre of Excellence.

Ms. Neale brings a unique background in environmental engineering and research and is well suited to grow Burns & Wilcox environmental specialty lines and product offerings. 

“We provide clients with the most robust service offering and the most qualified subject matter experts,” said Gary Hirst, National Director, Burns and Wilcox Canada. “Kim’s unique and highly specialized environmental expertise is a great addition to the Burns & Wilcox team as we grow this line of business. We are pleased to welcome her to the company.”

Ms. Neale joins Burns & Wilcox from Elliott Special Risks where she was an Environmental Underwriter. In this role her underwriting authority included: Premises Pollution Liability (PPL), Contractors Pollution Liability (CPL), Environmental Errors & Omissions and combined pollution and general liability packages. She also managed relationships with third party engineering firms, brokers and clients to apply loss control measures. In this role she assisted in the development and delivery of marketing programs for environmental insurance products and delivered accredited Environmental Liability Seminars throughout Ontario and Western Canada. She also assisted in the development of premium rating models to respond to changing environmental risks and created a quick reference environmental legislation database.

Prior to the insurance industry, Ms. Neale worked in environmental engineering roles in the research and the post-secondary sector. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.Sc Eng), specializing in environmental engineering and is currently working toward her Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation.

The Burns & Wilcox Environmental Centre of Excellence provides clients across Canada with direct access to environmental insurance expertise in several sectors including but not limited to oil & gas, mining, municipal, landfill, recycling, waste transfer, service stations, agricultural, fuel hauling and manufacturing.

“What is the Worst That Could Happen?” is a short animated video that depicts an imaginative and unlikely scenario stemming from an environmental risk.

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• About Burns & Wilcox Canada

 

• Burns & Wilcox Canada offers more than 300 products and fast turnaround to the Canadian brokerage community, recently created through the acquisition of the Chesterfield Group, a company known internationally for providing fast service in quoting and binding business. Burns & Wilcox Canada uses both Canadian domestic insurers as well as international carriers, including Lloyd’s underwriters. With offices in Toronto, Ottawa and St. John’s, Burns & Wilcox Canada is part of the Kaufman Financial Group and has close ties to 39 Burns & Wilcox offices in the United States to facilitate trans-border business and offer global solutions to Canadian clients.

 

• About Burns & Wilcox and the Kaufman Financial Group

 

• Burns & Wilcox is the industry’s largest privately-held wholesale broker and underwriting manager. Burns & Wilcox has more than 40 offices across the United States, Canada and London and employs more than 1,000 professionals. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Metro Detroit, Burns & Wilcox is internationally recognized for its insurance brokerage and underwriting expertise in commercial and professional liability, property, marine and personal insurance.