Covéa Insurance expands its Real Estate team to support increased trading activity

Covéa Insurance is pleased to announce that it has further expanded its London-based trading team to support the significant growth of the insurer’s successful Real Estate product. Holly Simkin has joined the team as Assistant Underwriter, and is committed to helping the team to maintain the strong performance that it has seen in the months since the product was launched.

Holly has spent the past four years working directly with customers for a major broker in the Real Estate sector, where she gained a wealth of experience. This experience will enable Covéa Insurance to continue to provide the high standards of service that customers in the sector expect.

Gareth Roberts, Senior Regional Underwriter commented:

"I am very pleased to welcome Holly into our team. Her extensive Real Estate experience will help further strengthen our service offering. We have seen significant growth in London so far in 2015, and Holly will provide crucial support for our panel of Real Estate specialists."

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About Covéa Insurance

Covéa Insurance Plc is the UK underwriting business of leading French mutual insurance group Covéa (which includes the global reinsurer PartnerRe since July 2022). 

Covéa Insurance looks after the insurance needs of UK customers, across a range of product lines; delivering financial reassurance through its Standard & Poor’s ‘AA- stable’ rating, as a guaranteed subsidiary of Covéa.  

Covéa Insurance has a strong people and service ethos and holds ServiceMark accreditation with Distinction for its Personal Lines operation and its Commercial & HNW Claims teams, as well as Chartered Insurer status for its Commercial business. Covéa Insurance is signatory to the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and the insurance Inclusivity Pledge and has been named one of the top 75 employers in West Yorkshire & the Humber. In 2022 Covéa Insurance was named Insurer of the Year at the British Claims Awards and Personal Lines Insurer of the Year at the Insurance Times Awards.