Bermuda, Nov. 6, 2009 (PRNewswire-FirstCall) -- Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd (NYSE: AWH) announced today that Allied World U.S.' Nicole Baummer, Assistant Vice President for Private/Not-for-Profit & Governmental Claims and Marjorie Thompson, Vice President, Professional Lines Claims, will be speaking at this year's Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) international conference, to be held in Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 2009.
PLUS is a not-for-profit organization with membership open to persons interested in the promotion and development of the professional liability industry. Membership consists of over 6,000 individuals, representing over 1,000 companies active in the many fields of professional liability. Ms. Thompson will participate on a panel entitled "Surveying and Surviving the Wreckage Below: All About Excess," on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 10 am. Ms. Baummer will participate on a panel entitled "I Can't Get Them to Settle," on Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 3:30 pm.
As Assistant Vice President for Private/Not-for-Profit & Governmental Claims in the U.S., Ms. Baummer manages a team of senior claims analysts who are responsible for handling the company's EPLI, governmental liability, and private and not-for-profit directors and officers claims. Before joining Allied World, Ms. Baummer was a senior claims officer at Chubb Specialty Insurance, where she managed high severity EPLI claims nationwide, and she also practiced as a management-side labor and employment attorney with Pepe & Hazard LLP in Hartford, Connecticut. Ms. Baummer earned her B.A. at the University of Connecticut and her J.D. at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she also served as Managing Editor of the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal. She is a member of the bar in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.
As Vice President, Professional Lines Claims, Ms. Thompson is a senior manager within the professional liability claims unit of Allied World. Prior to joining Allied World in 2003, she was a Complex Claims Director in the Commercial Directors & Officers Claims unit of National Union. Ms. Thompson also worked as an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae and as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil and Criminal Divisions. She has been a panel member at the PLUS Bermuda Perspective Symposium, and has lectured at the Bermuda Insurance Institute. Ms.
