According to a recent LinkedIn post from Arbol, the company is adding wildfire specialist Chris Chun as a Senior Underwriter on its Wildfire team. The post highlights his prior roles in both wholesale brokerage and underwriting, emphasizing his depth of experience in assessing wildfire-related property risks.
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The LinkedIn post notes Chun’s background at RT Specialty, where he worked on habitational, manufacturing, builder’s risk, and wildfire accounts, followed by an underwriting role at Kettle focused on heavily wildfire-exposed risks. This combination of distribution and underwriting experience suggests Arbol may be strengthening its technical underwriting capacity in a niche, high-severity risk segment.
For investors, the hiring move could indicate continued strategic focus on wildfire risk solutions and specialty insurance offerings, an area where demand is influenced by climate trends and rising catastrophe losses. Enhanced underwriting expertise may help Arbol refine risk selection and pricing, potentially improving loss ratios and supporting more sustainable premium growth in the catastrophe-exposed property market.