Fairfax unit jumps into US E&S wholesale brokerage mix

Fairfax's Hudson Insurance Group has opened a wholesale
brokerage facility for commercial casualty excess and surplus
(E&S) lines that is geared toward small and mid-sized risks in
the booming US construction sector as well as manufacturing and
distribution segments.
Primary limits being offered by the operation top out at $2mn,
the New York-based specialty insurer said today.
Hudson brought on former XL Catlin underwriter Connie Verdile to
run the new operation from a just-opened office in