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Gary Atkins
Executive Vice President/Regional Director
Gary specializes in brokerage of casualty lines with an emphasis on energy, oil and gas, contractors (industrial, commercial and residential), environmental, equipment rental, and product-driven accounts. He has 38 years of experience in the insurance industry with the last 26 years as an E&S wholesale broker.…
Read moreGary specializes in brokerage of casualty lines with an emphasis on energy, oil and gas, contractors (industrial, commercial and residential), environmental, equipment rental, and product-driven accounts. He has 38 years of experience in the insurance industry with the last 26 years as an E&S wholesale broker. Gary joined U.S. Risk in 2000.
Product specialties
- Artisan/trade contractors
- Drilling rigs/oilfield property
- Environmental
- Excess liability
- Excess maritime employers (workers’ compensation)
- Foreign coverages
- General contractors
- Liquor liability
- Offshore oil drilling and service risks
- Pollution contractors
- Products liability
- Refinery/oil and gas contractors
- Refinery/petrochemical risks
- Residential and roofing contractors
- Umbrella
Drew Atkins, CIC
Broker
Drew joined U.S. Risk in 2015 as a broker in the Houston office. Drew currently brokers casualty for a variety of classes, including contractors, hospitality, manufacturing and habitational. He also works on casualty accounts that are difficult to place due to losses or to the industries in which they work.
Drew earned his Bachelor of Finance and Accounting from Texas Christian University.
Product specialties
- General contractors
- Artisan contractors (residential/commercial/industrial)
- Restaurants
- Bars/taverns
- Nightclubs
- Manufacturing
- Habitational
- Inland marine
- Excess/umbrella
- Liquor liability
Chris Chiodetti
Vice President/Underwriter/Broker
Chris underwrites and brokers packages, monoline property, monoline general liability, excess liability, H&NO auto, professional and inland marine coverages for a large variety of property and casualty classes.
Product specialties
- Churches
- Contractors (artisan and general)
- Distributors
- Habitational (dwellings, apartments, etc.)
- Hotels/motels
- Lessor’s risk
- Manufacturers
- Mercantile
- Shopping centers
- Truckers
- Vacant warehouses
- Many more
Stanley Cieslak
Property Broker
Stanley joined U.S. Risk in 2020 as a property broker in the Houston, Texas office. He specializes in CAT exposed property, large layered placements, builder’s risk, and the development of proprietary property programs. Stanley earned a bachelor’s degree in Insurance and Risk Management from Olivet College.
Product specialties
- CAT exposed property
- Layered property placements
- Wind and hail
- DIC—Flood and earthquake
- Builder’s risk
- Catastrophic risk modeling
Dorothy Douglas
Senior Underwriter/Broker
Dorothy joined U.S. Risk in 2017 with the acquisition of IMS/London American and has more than 20 years of experience in the commercial underwriting of property and casualty business. She has a strong background in garage and is committed to delivering exceptional service. Other emphasis includes artisan contractors, lessor’s risk, vacant, warehouse, and directors and officers.
Product specialties
- Property and casualty
- General liability
- Packages
- Lessor’s Risk
- Garage Liability
- Inland marine
- Vacant properties
- Excess/umbrella
- Environmental
- Directors and officers
- EPLI
- Miscellaneous professional
Adam Holtman
Senior Broker/Underwriter
Adam was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas and attended Texas Christian University. Shortly before graduation, Adam began working in the oil and gas industry and eventually started his own brokerage company. He sold the company to Chesapeake Energy in 2008.
In 2009, Adam joined Hull & Company as a broker/underwriter with no insurance experience at all, but left the company in ten years later as their largest producer. He joined U.S. Risk in 2019 and continues working as a property and casualty broker/underwriter.
Product specialties
- Commercial property: Coastal/non-coastal, all occupancies, and all TIV sizes. Includes monoline wind and monoline fire.
- Commercial casualty: General liability; hard-to-place products accounts; contractors of all kinds and sizes; pollution (CPL and site); short-term coverages such as special events; and other products.
- Excess: Both primary and excess on all classes.
Taylor Lenze
Personal Lines Underwriter
Taylor joined U.S. Risk in 2020 as a personal lines underwriter in the Houston office. Taylor’s background is in middle-market and high-value personal lines risks, including auto, home, dwelling fire, watercraft, recreational vehicle coverage, and more. She has been in the insurance industry since 2016. Taylor graduated from Binghamton University in New York with a Bachelor’s of Science in Financial Economics.
Product specialties
- Auto
- Homeowners
- Condo
- Renters
- Dwelling fire/landlord rental
- Recreational vehicles
- Umbrella
- Flood
- Watercraft
- Personal collections
Peter O’Connor
Broker
Peter joined U.S. Risk in 2020. Previous industry experience includes nine years on the carrier side with Crum & Forster as an executive underwriter, which encompassed writing new business and managing a book of middle market, real estate, manufacturing, energy distribution, metal recycling, and explosive contractors risks. As broker, Peter concentrates on large real estate portfolios and difficult-to-place property risks.
Product specialties
- Buildings/BPP/BI/equipment breakdown
- Inland marine
- Builder’s risk
- Primary and excess layering capabilities
- Wind deductible buyback
- DIC – wind, flood, earthquake
- Coastal property
- Habitational/residential
- Assisted living and nursing facilities
- Hospitality – resorts/hotels
- Retail/LROs
- Restaurants
- Offices
- Manufacturing/industrial
- Equipment dealers
- Warehousing
- Churches
- Municipalities
- Schools
- Vacant buildings
- Stock throughput
Angela Ohnesorge
Broker
- Product specialties
- Directors and officers
- Employment practices liability
- Fiduciary
- Crime
- Kidnap and ransom
- Cyber
- Errors and omissions
Angela joined U.S. Risk Houston in August 2019. She brings over 20 years experience on the carrier side specializing in management/professional liability coverages.
- Product specialties
- Directors and officers
- Employment practices liability
- Fiduciary
- Crime
- Kidnap and ransom
- Cyber
- Errors and omissions
Jody Travis, CIC
Vice President/Senior Underwriter/Broker
Jody started his insurance career shortly after returning home from Texas Tech University in 1992. He specializes in surplus lines property and casualty business. He obtained his CIC designation in 2002. He began his career at Specialty Insurance Managers and found his way to Leicht General Agency, then IMS London American, which eventually merged with U.S. Risk. Jody has focused on mainstream surplus-line accounts for most of his career and has a long history with general contracting, hospitality, habitational and retail/lessor’s risk. Jody has a longtime commitment to providing exceptional service in all lines of business and brings a wealth of knowledge and professionalism to every account he works on.
Product specialties
- Artisan contractors
- Church and pastoral liability
- Convenience stores/grocery stores
- Daycare
- Excess/umbrella
- General contractors
- Habitational and associations
- Hospitality
- Inland marine
- Lessor’s risk
- Manufacturing
- Mercantile
- Products liability
- Professional liability
- Property