BHSI Launches Builder’s Risk, Tricamo Named Head

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has expanded its property capabilities to include builder’s risk insurance. The company also named Robert Tricamo to head the new specialty property area as vice president, Construction.

“Builder’s risk is a natural extension of our property and specialty lines expertise. These new capabilities enable us to round out our construction offering, bringing large-scale capacity and technical underwriting experience to large projects,” said Sanjay Godhwani, executive vice president, Property and Programs, BHSI.

In this newly created position, Tricamo will oversee BHSI’s entry into builder’s risk and its ongoing strategy and execution for the product line. He comes to BHSI with extensive technical property experience, most recently as product line manager, Builder’s Risk (CAR/EAR), at Arch Insurance Group. Before that he held a variety of increasing responsible positions in the technical property insurance arena, including vice president, Technical Risk Property, at Quanta US Holdings and supervising underwriter, Property and Engineered Risks, at Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation.

Tricamo is a founding member of the North American Construction Committee of the Inland Marine Underwriters Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University.

Source: Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI)