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“No matter how many clients I have, I make sure to call each one personally every quarter. It’s a chance to not only update them on their portfolio, but also check on how they’re doing personally”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
Carol Laufer is the head of liability in North America at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), which includes excess (commercial and national accounts), environmental, reverse flow, international, and Canada. She has 44 employees on her team. Laufer brings 30 years of experience in the insurance industry to the AGCS liability team.
At the beginning of her career, she worked in primary casualty at Reliance National and remained there, in the wholesale industry, for nine years. In her later years at Reliance National, she was an assistant vice president in the technology department. Laufer then joined AIG for 10 years, beginning as a home office Y2K referral underwriter. She held several managerial positions at AIG until 2008, when she became the senior vice president of risk management national accounts primary casualty with 100 employees in 10 regions.
In 2008, Laufer joined ACE USA (now Chubb) and returned to excess casualty with 80 employees across the United States. In 2012, she became an executive vice president of ACE USA. Laufer came to AGCS from Zurich North America, where she started in 2015 as the head of excess casualty global corporate North America and quickly became the head of excess casualty for Zurich’s US commercial insurance division. She led over 70 employees in eight field offices. In June 2021, she joined AGCS/Allianz as head of liability.
As a thought leader in the industry, Carol has worked with third party insurance publications and media outlets to contribute to several articles. Some of these features include: “Casualty Cat Risk Grows as Regs, Media Evolve” by Susanne Scalfane, Advisen, April 17, 2012; “Good names on the line: Can new and developing reputational risk products keep pace with insureds’ growing need for coverage?” by Bonnie Cavanaugh, PropertyCasualty360, October 29, 2012; and “Catastrophes in the Social Media Age,” Risk & Insurance online story, April 8, 2013.
Laufer graduated with a degree in Government from Connecticut College and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Carol Laufer
Head of Liability, North America
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
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“I strongly believe in working smarter, not harder. I think it’s one of the keys to living a great life, and I want to share that with as many people as possible”
Kelvin Rampersad,
Carte Wealth Management
2012
2013
2015
2019
2021–present
Quoted in “Casualty Cat Risk Grows as Regs, Media Evolve” by Susanne Scalfane, Advisen; April 17, 2012
Quoted in “Good names on the line: Can new and developing reputational risk products keep pace with insureds’ growing need for coverage?” by Bonnie Cavanaugh, PropertyCasualty360; October 29, 2012
2012
Contributed to “Catastrophes in the Social Media Age,” Risk & Insurance online story; April 8, 2013
2013
Selected as one of YWCA’s Women to Watch
2015
Served on the Advisen Casualty Board
2019
Head of Liability at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
2021–
present
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