Davies swoops for nationwide audit and loss-control agency

Davies, a specialist skilled providers and expertise enterprise serving insurance coverage and extremely regulated markets, has introduced that it has acquired Colorado-based Afirm Options, a specialist supplier of premium audit, loss-control inspection and threat mitigation providers for insurance coverage carriers, insurance coverage distribution platforms and third-party directors.

Afirm is a nationwide, full-service supplier of audit and loss-control inspection providers for private and business traces in all 50 states and elements of Canada. It’s the solely premium audit and loss-control vendor with operations in Canada, Davies mentioned.

Afirm will develop into a part of Davies US, led by CEO Matt Brunton. Afirm president Mark de Waal will proceed to guide the enterprise and can be a part of the Davies US insurance coverage providers management group. All Afirm workers will proceed of their roles with Davies US.

“I’m delighted to welcome Mark and all the Afirm group to Davies,” mentioned Dan Saulter, group CEO for Davies. “The enterprise has a superb observe file of delivering robust technological capabilities and is well-known available in the market for its potential to innovate and evolve. “A lot of our insurance coverage and extremely regulated shoppers are looking for to work with fewer strategic companions, and to construct long-term relationships throughout a spread of providers to assist their progress and supply.

“Bringing Afirm’s premium audit and loss-control groups along with our present insurance coverage operations in North America permits us to take an expanded specialist and tech-enabled audit and loss-control providing to our 1,500-plus insurance coverage and extremely regulated shoppers globally.”

“I’m actually happy that Afirm is becoming a member of Davies,” de Waal mentioned. “Over latest years, Davies has accelerated into the US and continued to spend money on expertise and innovation for its shoppers. By combining our companies, we’ve got a stronger service proposition for insurance coverage shoppers who’re looking for to interact with fewer trusted companions that closely spend money on expertise to ship time-sensitive and correct premium audit, inspection and threat mitigation experiences.

“The cultural match with Davies was an necessary issue as we deliberate for our firm’s future, and becoming a member of Davies will current our workers with extra profession improvement alternatives and an thrilling future as the corporate continues to develop.”

Final month, Davies introduced the appointment of David Leedham as group chief transformation officer. The corporate additionally not too long ago restructured to simplify operations after a interval of sustained M&A progress.

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