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AmTrust Expands Excess & Surplus (E&S) Division Offerings and Welcomes Industry Leaders

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Expanded E&S product lines include property, environmental, builders risk, and a consolidated casualty brokerage group

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., (“AmTrust” or the “Company”), a global specialty property casualty insurer, today announced a major expansion of its Excess and Surplus (E&S) division. The Company has welcomed senior industry talent and introduced new product lines in property, environmental, and builders risk as part of its ongoing commitment to the E&S market. Through the expansion, AmTrust has consolidated its Primary, Excess, and Environmental products into a new brokerage casualty group, creating an integrated platform for cohesive growth. This new brokerage casualty group complements the Company’s range of E&S product lines, creating a more complete offering for this specialty market.

“AmTrust’s E&S division is at a true inflection point as we continue to carry out our long-term strategy to make meaningful investments in hiring top-tier talent and broadening our offerings to better serve our insureds and position us for sustained growth in the E&S market,” said Erich Bublitz, Head of AmTrust E&S. “Over the past 18 months we’ve built an incredible roster of seasoned and highly regarded industry professionals to lead our expansion into exciting new E&S business lines as we maintain our strong focus in this dynamic specialty market.”

Brian Mulvihill, Senior Vice President, Casualty Brokerage

Leading the new casualty brokerage group, Mulvihill joined AmTrust in August 2025 from Crum & Forster Insurance where he spent over nine years in underwriting and management roles in areas including Construction, Unified XS, and most recently, Vice President, Excess & Umbrella, Head of Wholesale East. He is based in Morristown, New Jersey.

Kevin Sullivan, Vice President, Property

Sullivan joined AmTrust in April 2024 to establish and lead the property group. Prior to AmTrust, he spent more than 11 years at as a Vice President at AXA XL. He is based in New York.

Tom Kashickey, Vice President, Environmental

Kashickey joined AmTrust in January 2025 to lead the environmental group with nearly twenty years in the environmental insurance market, including underwriting and senior leadership roles at Ironshore (now Liberty Mutual) and AXIS Capital, following a legal career including corporate transactional and securities specialization. He is based in Los Angeles.

Rob Tricamo, Vice President, Builders Risk

Tricamo joined AmTrust in April 2025 to lead the builders risk group. He previously spent 11 years at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, where he most recently served as Vice President of Construction Property. He is based in New York.

Together, Kevin Sullivan, Tom Kashickey, and Rob Tricamo lead the Company’s property, environmental, and builders risk product lines, bringing deep expertise across these critical E&S areas.

Mulvihill, Sullivan, Kashickey, and Tricamo will join the existing, experienced E&S management team that includes Topher Fylak, Vice President, AmTrust E&S Binding Authority, Jackie Hennig, Vice President, E&S Unsupported Excess and Tom Hartnett, Vice President, Underwriting, E&S

Mulvihill, Sullivan, Tricamo, Fylak and Hartnett will report to Bublitz. Henning and Kashickey will report to Mulvihill. AmTrust also recently announced the appointment of Curt Fletcher as Senior Vice President to lead AmTrust’s new E&S Premier group which is focused on complex casualty business distributed through a very select group of brokers.

About AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York, offers specialty property and casualty insurance products, including workers' compensation, business owner's policy (BOP), general liability and extended service and warranty coverage. For more information about AmTrust, visit http://www.amtrustfinancial.com.

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