"Our membership has a collective wealth of experience built over years of operating in the group risk protection market."
- Colin Fitzgerald, Chair of GRiD
PartnerRe is a global reinsurance company with over $10bn in total capital, offering group reinsurance solutions to the UK & Irish group risk market. Recognising the wealth of expertise provided by Group Risk Development (GRiD), the organisation has joined the industry body as its latest member.
GRiD offers its members unparalleled access to the group risk community, with virtually all providers and reinsurance companies currently writing UK group risk business represented, together with a growing number of group risk advisers.
“We look forward to joining the GRiD community and contributing to the development of the group risk market to help deliver protection benefits to UK employees – both those working for the largest employers and those employed by small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), many of whom have an as yet unmet protection need,” said Bernie Hamilto, Head of Life & Health in the UK & Ireland at PartnerRe.
Colin Fitzgerald, Chair of GRiD, added: “Our membership has a collective wealth of experience built over years of operating in the group risk protection market. We’re delighted to welcome PartnerRe; I’m sure they will benefit from the valuable insight of our members, as we will benefit from theirs.”