According to a recent LinkedIn post from Arbol, the company is adding underwriting capacity to its wildfire segment with the hire of Chris Chun as a Senior Underwriter. The post highlights his background spanning wholesale brokerage and underwriting, with specific experience in heavily wildfire-exposed risks.
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The LinkedIn post notes that Chun previously worked at RT Specialty on property risks including habitational, manufacturing, builder’s risk, and wildfire accounts. It also points to his subsequent underwriting role at Kettle, where he focused on building a profitable book in wildfire risk.
For investors, the hire suggests Arbol is continuing to deepen its technical expertise in a niche but growing segment of climate and catastrophe risk. Strengthening underwriting talent in wildfire could support more disciplined risk selection, potentially improving loss ratios and enhancing the scalability of Arbol’s product offerings in this area.
The post also implies that Arbol values experience that bridges distribution and underwriting, which may help align product design with broker and client needs. If successfully leveraged, this capability could improve market penetration in wildfire risk solutions and reinforce Arbol’s positioning within the broader climate and parametric risk ecosystem.