The Liberty Brisbane team’s local knowledge and experience has achieved a strong market presence since we opened in 2000. Our underwriters have full authority to negotiate and bind business – you deal with the decision makers on all lines. Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks claims specialists are onsite, and we have risk engineering support.
Brisbane specialises in ...
Casualty
Our Casualty team has earned its stripes as a ‘go-to’ provider of tailored Liability and Project-specific and annual Construction insurance solutions; our dedicated onsite Casualty risk engineer adds prebind and post-claims value; and Liberty Australia’s Programme business is based here. We are proud of the service we provide through sales, site visits, fast turnaround times, technical experience and claims handling.
Environmental Impairment Liability
Based in Brisbane, Liberty’s Environmental Impairment Liability team makes its experience available throughout Liberty Australia and Liberty Asia Pacific. We offer Fixed-site and Contractor’s Pollution Liability.
Professional & Financial Risks
Liberty Brisbane’s Professional & Financial Risks writes Professional Indemnity (PI), Directors and Officers Liability and Financial Institutions Liability, and we are experienced in Cyber insurance and Information Technology Liability (ITL) insurance.
Try our Online Quotation System (OQS): it’s perfect for fast and convenient PI and ITL quotes for small to medium enterprises.
Property
Liberty Brisbane benefits from the experience of an in-house senior underwriter who specialises in commercial and corporate Property business, underwrites Industrial Special Risks insurance and works closely with risk engineering and claims to support our Queensland clients.
Marine
At Liberty Brisbane Marine, our strength lies in the relationships we build with our brokers and clients and the service we provide. We cover the spectrum of Marine insurance, with key focus areas of General Cargo, including Carrier’s Comprehensive cover; Project Cargo; Marine Liabilities (Primary and Excess); and Hull insurance, where we act as co-insurers.
Accident & Health
With a senior underwriter based onsite, the full suite of Liberty Accident & Health products and services is offered by Liberty Brisbane.
Claims
Brisbane is home to Casualty and Professional & Financial Risks claims specialists with an enviable industry reputation for their claims handling; ours is a mature team of negotiators with both local and international experience. We prefer to build relationships with clients upfront, in the prebind phase, and if there’s a claim, we aim to process and pay claims as quickly as possible.
Risk Engineering
Liberty Brisbane is fortunate to have on-the-ground technical support of a specialist Casualty risk engineer who also supports Energy, Property and Construction underwriters on an as-needs basis, and who adds both prebind and post-claims value to our service.
Meet the Brisbane team:
Lana Gray
Senior Claims Specialist, Marine
T: +61 7 3235 8840
Claudia Virgona
Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks
T: +61 7 3235 8845 & +61 2 8298 5845
James Tucker
Senior Claims Specialist, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8822
Jonathan Lee
Senior Claims Specialist, Professional & Financial Risks
T: +61 7 3235 8843
Mark Egglestone
Senior Claims Specialist, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8838
Marcus Ellard
Senior Underwriter, Accident & Health
T: +61 7 3235 8807
Department
Accident & Health
Main role
Marcus underwrites Liberty's Accident & Health business in Queensland and the Northern Territory from his base in the Brisbane office.
Personal profile
Marcus joined Liberty in 2017 bringing two decades of insurance underwriting experience across both corporate and consumer products. In his previous role, he managed a casualty portfolio for a large international insurer in Brisbane.
Marcus is an ANZIIF Fellow and holds a Bachelor of Business degree and a Postgraduate Diploma of Insurance.
David Collins
Senior Risk Engineer, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8829
Janet Oliver
Underwriter, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8805
Mark Wagner
Assistant Vice President, Casualty and QLD Branch Manager
T: +61 7 3235 8802
Richard Slawek
Senior Underwriter, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8810
Bill Hardie
Underwriter, Crisis Management
T: +61 7 3235 8808
Kane Fuller
Senior Underwriter, Energy Property Construction
T: +61 7 3235 8832
Alan Thorn
Senior Underwriter, Environmental Impairment Liability
T: +61 7 3235 8841
Madonna Youles-Fitzgerald
Senior Underwriter, Marine
T: +61 7 3235 8834
Ashley McCarthy
Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risk Portfolio Manager, SME Business
T: +61 7 3235 8884
Department
Professional & Financial Risks
Main role
As the National Professional & Financial Risks Portfolio Manager for our SME Business, Ashley underwrites the full suite of Liberty’s Professional & Financial Risks products, with a particular emphasis on Professional Indemnity (PI), Construction PI, Financial Institutions insurance and Information Technology insurance.
Personal profile
Ashley joined Liberty in 2011 with a decade of experience in the insurance industry, gained while working with a PI brokerage and as a financial lines underwriter for an insurance company.
Ashley holds a Bachelor of Business degree.
Helen Brand
Senior Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks Manager - Queensland
T: +61 7 3235 8823
Department
Professional & Financial Risks
Main Role
Helen is a Senior Underwriter and Professional & Financial Risks Manager for Professional Indemnity, Financial Institutions (PI and Investment Managers Insurance), Cyber, Side A and Directors’ & Officers’ Liability insurance.
Personal Profile
Based in Brisbane, Helen joined Liberty in 2015. She has worked in the Professional & Financial Risks sector since 2001, working within both the broking and underwriting fields in the UK, USA, and Australia.
Helen holds a Masters in Mathematics and Masters in Business Administration.
Pranav Jani
Underwriter, Professional & Financial Risks
T: +61 7 3235 8818
Mike Carr
National Surety Manager – Australia
T: +61 2 8047 3309
David Collins
Senior Risk Engineer, Casualty
T: +61 7 3235 8829
Tim Bugg
Principal Risk Engineer, Professional & Financial Risks
T: +61 7 3235 8803
