Global Special Risks Opens Office in Calgary
Global Special Risks Opens Office in Calgary
Appoints Energy Specialist Selena Halasz to Head New Office
LONDON, UK, June 8, 2010 – Global Special Risks (GSR), the wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent, announced today it has established an office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to more effectively serve its existing and prospective clients in the local oil and gas industry, with plans to expand to other
industries in the future.
With the opening of the Calgary office, GSR, a unit of London-based Faber & Dumas, also announced the appointment of Selena Halasz to head the new office. Halasz will be responsible for delivering to local clients the full range of GSR’s underwriting, risk management and claim services, including their new Property Facility and Wellsure®, the preventative energy risk solution offered in partnership with Boots & Coots Services, the premier worldwide well control specialists.
“We are extremely pleased to establish a permanent presence in Canada and to appoint Selena Halasz to head our new office in Calgary,” said Rick Burns, president of GSR. “With her strong background in the oil and gas industry, Selena is a terrific choice to work with our local clients and provide them with superior risk solutions and the best possible personalized service and attention. Calgary also gives us a solid base upon which to expand our business throughout Canada.”
Halasz brings nine years of oil and gas insurance experience to GSR. She joins the company from the Energy Practice Group at Aon Reed Stenhouse. Before that, she was an underwriter for upstream oil and gas risks at the Energy Insurance Reciprocal (formerly Canadian Petroleum Insurance Exchange), and later a broker with Willis Canada focusing on oil and gas production and energy services accounts. Halasz earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Calgary, and holds the Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designation from the Global Risk Management Institute (affiliated with the Risk and Insurance Management Society).
GSR’s new office is located at 630 Sixth Avenue, S.W., Suite 1000, Calgary, AB T2P 0S8, telephone (403) 767-9209. In addition to the office in Calgary, GSR has offices in New Orleans, Houston and Dallas.
About GSR
Global Special Risks is an excess and surplus lines wholesale broker and managing general agency specializing in the energy and non-marine property fields. Founded in 1979 as a London market cover holder concentrating on marine and energy placements, GSR has developed unique product offerings and multiple niche products with the London and North American markets. GSR is part of Glencairn Energy, a unit of Faber & Dumas, which provides specialist services in a number of areas including property, accident & health; fine art, jewellery and specie; kidnap and ransom, bloodstock; energy; construction; cargo and casualty lines.
