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"West Oak’s success has come from always putting our clients’ best interests first and always finding ways to improve and add more value to them"
Andrew mcquiston,
west oak family office, wellington-altus private wealth
As senior vice president in RT’s Environmental and Construction Professional Liability practice, John Heft brings years of environmental insurance experience, including a solid base of real estate-focused experience for a major brokerage firm, an insurance carrier, and an environmental consulting firm.
“My experience includes more than 30 years in the environmental insurance marketplace including consulting, underwriting, and broking,” he says. “This, combined with my technical background in environmental engineering, provides a unique perspective and the tools to tackle complex environmental risks that insureds face in today’s marketplace.”
Throughout his career, John has provided environmental risk management solutions for various industry sectors, including chemical, energy, manufacturing, commercial and habitational real estate, universities, and healthcare. He focuses on private equity, contaminated property transfers and site development risks. His career expertise includes environmental liability risk assessment, risk quantification, loss control, and insurance program development and placement.
John also specializes in contaminated property transactions where he is well trained to address clients’ legacy liability issues and prospective portfolio environmental insurance programs. He manages the company’s site pollution and environmental casualty production teams, identifies and develops new and existing brokerage relationships, and provides insurance and risk management solutions to brokers and their clients.
What’s one challenge he recently dealt with? “I worked with a highly regarded insurance carrier to develop an exclusive, competitive solution designed to protect all stakeholders from catastrophic environmental risks pertaining to hard infrastructure projects (roads, bridges, airports, rail, and ports) including public-private partnerships,” he says. “This solution helps brokers address their clients’ anticipated environmental risks associated with projects arising from the recent passage of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The challenge involved combining two major environmental insuring agreements with different coverage triggers on one policy form, which was not available in the marketplace. I had to collaborate with the carrier on coverage terms to create a seamless insurance product that would help to meet the anticipated contractual liability requirements for these types of projects.”
In addition to having specialist expertise, John has authored many articles on environmental insurance and risk management topics for publications such as National Underwriter, Risk Management Magazine, CFMA Building Profits, Facilities Manager Magazine, Environmental Protection, National Real Estate Investors Magazine, and Pipeline & Gas Journal.
He has a BS in general science and an MS in water resources and environmental engineering from Villanova University, as well as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist designation.
John Heft
Senior Vice President
RT Environmental & Construction Professional
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Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
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Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia; Managing Director at
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2016
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Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
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2010
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2005
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Head at AGCS Pacific
2005
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1997
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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1995
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Underwriter, International Department/Casualty at
Allianz AG, Munich
1995
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John Heft
Senior Vice President
RT Environmental & Construction Professional
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2020
2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2020-2021
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Received Lexology Client Choice Award (Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
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Received Best Lawyer in Canada Award (Employment and Labour Law)
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2010
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1997
1995
2016
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia;
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2016
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2010
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2010
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2005
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Head at AGCS Pacific
2005
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1997
Human Resources Magazine | key media
Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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1995
human resources | key media
Underwriter, International Department/Casualty at Allianz AG, Munich
1995
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2016
2010
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1997
1995
2016
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Regional Head, ASEAN and Australasia;
Managing Director at HDI Global SE, Australia
2016
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2010
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Managing Director at
HDI Global SE, Australia
2010
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2005
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Head at AGCS Pacific
2005
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1997
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Regional Manager Liability, Asia-Pacific
at Allianz Re and AGCS, Singapore
1997
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1995
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Underwriter, International Department/Casualty at Allianz AG, Munich
1995
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Career Accolades
2020
2019
2018
2020-2021
2014-2022
2020
Insurance Business Magazine | Key Media
Receive an excellence award
2020
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2019
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
TeD Talk Speaker
2019
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2020-2021
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Lexology
Client Choice Award
(Labour and Employment – Canada)
2020-2021
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2014-2022
Ted Talk in collaboration with key media
Received Best Lawyer in
Canada Award
(Employment and Labour Law)
2014-2022
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