Practical Tips and Strategies in Managing Environmental and Transactional Risk Insurance: What You Need to Know

Ken Cornell is Managing Principal of Enviant, a Division of Euclid Environmental Underwriters, LLC.  Ken, along with a team of industry veterans, launched Enviant in March of 2016, building a team of underwriting, claims and legal professionals to deliver a diverse portfolio of environmental insurance products and services.  He began his career with AIG in 1985, rising from an entry level underwriting position to Executive Vice President of AIG Environmental, ultimately managing a $1B environmental insurance portfolio and team of over 150 underwriters in 12 offices.  In addition to his US role,  his duties at AIG also included responsibility for the global environmental reinsurance program which supported both US and non US business.  Subsequent to his time at AIG, Mr. Cornell built an environmental wholesale brokerage unit at a national wholesale broker and launched several successful startup environmental insurance divisions for large publicly traded insurance carriers.  He has a BA in Biology from Gettysburg College and a Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Duke University.

Phil Casper is a founder and Principal of Euclid Transactional, LLC (“ET”), a managing general agency that underwrites transactional liability insurance in the United States and Canada. Phil is based in New York and manages the underwriting and marketing of transactional liability insurance products for ET. Prior to joining ET, Phil worked at a leading international insurance company in its Mergers & Acquisitions Insurance Group as a Vice President and Regional Underwriting Manager. Before entering the insurance industry, Phil was an attorney in the Business Transactions group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, where he advised private equity and other corporate clients on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and securities matters.