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McLarens has expanded its major loss practice with the appointment of Simon Shaw and Martin Allan to two new senior management positions.
As the heads of major loss practice for London and the Southeast and Scotland respectively, Shaw and Allan will take responsibility for coordinating commercial property and business interruption-related major and complex loss activity in their region, leading on their own portfolio of losses, managing ring-fenced teams, controlling quality assurance, and supporting further strategic growth.
The appointments will strengthen McLarens’s complex and major loss capability at a regional level, with the major loss leadership expanding from three to five to reflect growth and increasing market demand. The newly created senior roles coincide with the internal appointments of Karl Evans, Ian Marenghi and Tim McGee to the team.
Shaw is an experienced major loss specialist with more than 30 years of industry experience, having held senior management roles with insurers, brokers and loss adjusters.
Working across a range of different sectors including power, manufacturing, hotel and leisure, and commercial property, Shaw brings considerable multi-sector experience around complex and major losses. His expertise also includes responding to high profile terrorism incidents.
Previously head of operations for the North at McLarens in the UK and Ireland, Allan has more than 35 years of experience, working across commercial property claims of all classes, both domestic and international.
His expertise includes acting on multi-million-pound fire and flood losses, in addition to handling CAT duties across the globe.
Neil Baldwin, executive director at McLarens, said: “We’ve made a strategic decision to expand our major loss proposition over the past two years and we’re seeing continued growth and market demand as a direct result. Our adjusters are of the highest quality and our strong leadership team continues to drive our performance further forward, with the customer at the heart of all that we do.”
“Simon and Martin are both excellent technical adjusters, with significant experience of managing and growing teams across the world, and they will complement our existing major loss practice very