100 influential women in re/insurance


“I was excited by the training programme with the Hartford and the opportunity to work in a professional setting. I found my way into reinsurance about five years later and loved the entrepreneurial aspect of facultative underwriting.”


Name: Laura Hunt


Company: Everest Re Job:


Vice president and head of casualty/


professional facultative Timeline: 2010—Vice president and head of casualty/ professional facultative, Everest Re 2004—Treaty casualty underwriter, Everest Re 1996—Casualty facultative, Chicago branch manager, Everest Re 1994—Underwriter, National Reinsurance 1990—Senior underwriter, the Hartford Insurance Group


Laura Hunt started her career at the Hartford in June 1990 in its cluster training programme in Hartford CT and worked for the Hartford for almost five years in Cleveland. She wanted to move to Chicago so found a job at National Re and moved in 1994. When National Re was sold to Gen Re Hunt moved over to


Everest Re in 1996 in its Chicago office. They asked her to transfer to the treaty casualty department and that happened in 2004. She became the head of the domestic casualty and professional facultative department in 2010.


Why did you choose to work in this industry initially? I was excited by the training programme with the Hartford and the opportunity to work in a professional setting. I found my way into reinsurance about five years later and loved the entrepreneurial aspect of facultative underwriting.


What has been the highlight of your career so far? I was asked to be in charge of our casualty and professional facultative department by the president of the company.


What has been the biggest challenge you have encountered? Working in a male-dominated industry and having to manoeuvre the different political landscapes as senior management changes.


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If you had chosen a different profession/career path, what would it have been? I would have been an ocean marine biologist.


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