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Aaron Ma
Vice President
Aaron has 19 years of entertainment insurance industry experience, beginning his career at a leading entertainment insurance MGA, underwriting property, casualty, workers’ compensation and contingency lines of coverage. In 2006, he joined L.A. Xcess Insurance Brokers, a leading entertainment wholesale brokerage firm, managing all agency operations.
Product specialties
- Entertainment property and casualty
- Workers’ compensation
- Contingency
- Media liability
Sage Maroney
Senior Program Underwriter
Sage joined U.S. Risk in 2013 as a Senior Underwriter, focusing on multiple lines of coverage for the StaffPak program. She has worked in the insurance industry since 2003 in brokerage, MGA and underwriting capacities in various lines of business for property and casualty, surplus lines and workers’ compensation. Sage specializes in the temporary staffing/employment agency specialty market. The One Beacon Insurance Group meets the needs of standard staffing and PEO accounts with their admitted package policy, and certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London meet the needs of the not-so-standard staffing and PEO accounts; Sage has the pen for both markets. Workers’ compensation is also written for staffing accounts by One Beacon of AIG, leading providers in the industry.
Sage is known for her exceptional service, broad commercial underwriting background and expertise in the staffing industry.
Product specialties
- Professional liability
- Workers’ compensation
- Staffing services E&O
- EPLI
- Crime
- General liability
- Property
- Medical E&O
- Auto liability
- Directors and officers liability
- Fiduciary
- Excess liability
Noel Martinsen
Executive Vice President/Branch Manager
Noel specializes in brokerage casualty and marine liabilities with a heavy emphasis on contractors and product driven accounts. He has spent his entire career as a wholesale broker in the New Orleans area and has been with U.S. Risk since 2000. He is involved with general liability, umbrella/excess, maritime employer’s liability and environmental. He also underwrites on behalf of Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London for umbrella related to the energy and marine industries as well as maritime employer’s liability.
Product specialties
- Artisan contractors
- Energy contractors – offshore and onshore
- Environmental contractors
- Excess liability/umbrella – all classes of business
- General contractors – commercial and residential
- Marine liability
- Products liability
- Refinery/petrochemical contractors
- Specialty contractors
Glenn Matias
Vice President/National Practice Leader
Glenn has management responsibility for the workers’ compensation Division of U.S. Risk. In this role, Glenn is responsible for managing and expanding WC wholesale brokerage operations and developing and managing WC programs – underwriting authorities in underserved niche markets.
Glenn joined U.S. Risk in 2015 with over 25 years of technical and managerial experience in the insurance industry and had founded Matias Underwriters in 2008. Operating in both the insurance and reinsurance arenas, Glenn has held executive positions at AmTrust North America, an AmTrust Financial Services company; and, LDG Reinsurance Underwriters, a reinsurance MGU managing facilities on behalf of life, accident and health, and property and casualty Pools, as well as Lloyd’s binders.
After earning his Bachelor of Arts with a degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Glenn started his insurance career with Liberty Mutual as a multi-line commercial underwriter and held various positions including chief underwriter, supervisor of residual markets, and manager of business policy and audit production. Glenn manages the Boston, Dallas, Houston and Sarasota workers’ compensation offices, which have the ability to write both primary and excess workers’ compensation for an expanded number of classes, with competitive rates in all 50 states.
Brian Mennes
Broker/Underwriter
Karen Misiaszek
Senior Underwriter
Karen joined U.S. Risk in 2001. She specializes in underwriting and brokerage of all types of contractors, bars/taverns/restaurants, liquor liability, storage tank pollution and other environmental liability, inland marine, commercial property, excess and umbrella, and small to medium sized energy risks. Karen has over 35 years of insurance industry experience, with 32 years an E&S underwriter and broker.
Product specialties
- Artisan/trade contractors
- Builders risk
- Commercial property
- Daycare centers/nurseries
- Energy
- Entertainment
- Environmental
- Equipment floaters and dealers
- Excess liability/umbrella
- General contractors
- Habitational property
- Liquor liability
- Products liability
- Residential and roofing contractors
- Special events
- Vacant property
Kevin Mordarski
Vice President/Branch Manager
Kevin specializes in the brokerage of professional liability, general liability, property/auto, EPL, D&O and umbrella/excess for assisted living facilities, nursing homes, allied medical fields and social service agencies. He also underwrites for the U.S. Risk Healthcare Pros program that offers a combined general/professional liability insurance product for assisted living facilities, nursing homes, allied medical fields and social service agencies. Kevin has over eight years of E&S brokerage experience and over 14 years underwriting experience.
Product specialties
- Auto liability
- Allied/miscellaneous healthcare
- Assisted living centers
- Clinics
- Crime
- Commercial property
- D&O (including difficult-to-place)
- Employment related practices
- Excess liability
- Excess malpractice/professional
- Hospitals
- Nursing/convalescent homes
- Physicians
- Social services
- Umbrella
Tammy Morgan
Vice President/Senior Underwriter
Tammy specializes in the underwriting fields of auto, garage, and inland marine. These fields include but are not limited to trucking, commercial auto, public, hired and non-owned auto, dealers and non-dealers. She has 22 years in the insurance industry with the last 17 years as a transportation underwriter.
Read moreTammy specializes in the underwriting fields of auto, garage, and inland marine. These fields include but are not limited to trucking, commercial auto, public, hired and non-owned auto, dealers and non-dealers. She has 22 years in the insurance industry with the last 17 years as a transportation underwriter.
Product specialties
- Auto liability
- Artisan/trade contractors
- Auto physical damage
- Commercial property
- Excess liability
- Garage
- General contractors
- Habitational property
- Motor truck cargo
- Public auto
- Social services
- Special events
- Trucking
- Umbrella
- Vacant property