OREANDA-NEWS. Intact Insurance has created a new national team that will be dedicated to growing its commercial lines specialty solutions business from $600 million to $1 billion in Direct Premiums Written (DPW) within the next five years.

To support this growth, Intact Insurance will be hiring about 150 insurance professionals across Canada over the next few years, to add to its current team of experts. The company also recently appointed Joe D'Annunzio as Senior Vice President, Specialty Solutions and Surety, to lead the team. D'Annunzio was previously Intact Insurance's Regional Vice President of the Mississauga region.

"Our vision is to become a market leader and be widely recognized as the top provider of specialty insurance products and expertise. Our national scale, combined with our comprehensive suite of solutions, will provide brokers with the expertise and support they need to help them meet the changing needs of their customers," said Jean-Francois Blais, President, Intact Insurance. "In addition, our regional presence means we can be as local as brokers, which means they can depend on us to deliver both a broker and customer experience that is second to none."

Intact Insurance offers a wide breadth of products in specialty solutions, including niche, errors and omissions (E&O), directors and officers liability (D&O), marine, farm, long-haul trucking and other specialized classes of commercial auto. Intact Insurance is also a leading provider of surety bonds.

About Intact Financial Corporation
Intact Financial Corporation is the largest provider of property and casualty insurance in Canada with almost $8.0 billion in premiums. Supported by over 12,000 employees, the company insures more than five million individuals and businesses through its insurance subsidiaries and is the largest private sector provider of P&C insurance in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Qu?bec, Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. The company distributes insurance under the Intact Insurance brand through a wide network of brokers, including its wholly owned subsidiary, BrokerLink, and directly to consumers through belairdirect.