Marine Liability

Marine Liability

Marine Liability

Atrium Underwriters offer a broad range of products within the Marine and Energy Liability insurance classes.

We specialise in providing insurance coverage for a wide range of Marine Liability risks, catering to clients of all sizes—from micro enterprises to global corporations. As a team, we’ve established ourselves as market leaders in the products we offer, emphasizing both exceptional service levels and technical expertise. Our maximum capacity for this class of business is $75 million, available for deployment on both primary and excess bases.

Our Energy Liability portfolio covers a wide range of exposures, including offshore exploration and production (E&P) operators, renewable energy operators, service contractors, and drilling contractors. We take pride in our service levels and technical proficiency. Our maximum capacity for this class is $50 million, with a focus on excess layers. While our primary appetite is offshore risks, our diverse portfolio allows us to consider onshore exposures when necessary.

Coverages

Coverages offered include:

  • Protection & Indemnity
  • Charters Legal Liability
  • Traders Liability
  • Marine Employers Liability
  • Cargo Owners Legal Liability
  • Reinsurance of Fixed Premium P&L
  • Terminal Operators Liability
  • Pollution
  • Ship repair / Ship Builders
  • Products Liability
  • Marine Construction
  • Cable Lays
  • Marine General Liability
  • Marine Umbrella
  • Social Responsibility
  • COFR Reinsurance
Atrium at Lloyd's

Find us

Find us at Box 025 at Lloyd’s

Welcome to the Marine Liability page at Atrium 609.

Atrium Underwriters offer a broad range of products within the Marine and Energy Liability insurance classes.

We are able to provide protection for our Insureds against third party physical loss or damage, personal and bodily injury and can even extend coverage to include various contractual liabilities.

Our expertise and specialist knowledge allows us to operate on a worldwide basis, ensuring that our clients are guided through sometimes complex and challenging options when considering their coverage and risk management requirements, whilst maintaining a flexible and bespoke service to an individual business regardless of their size and territory.

Working with both domestic and international brokers, we endeavour to provide innovative solutions for our clients, regardless of whether they are a single vessel operator or a large multinational corporation, responding to the new challenges & risks that the marine and energy industry encounters.

We currently provide the following core types of cover typically for cargo handling operations, vessel operators, offshore energy and onshore risks.

  • Legal Liability
  • Shiprepairers Liability
  • Charterers Liability
  • Marine Employers Liability (MEL)
  • Pollution Liability
  • Excess Protection and Indemnity (P&I)
  • Stevedore’s Liability
  • Terminal Operators Liability
  • Contractual Liability
  • Wharfingers Liability
  • Cargo Owners Liability
  • Energy Liability
  • Excess Marine and Energy Liability

Line Size USD $50,000,000

Find out more

To find out what our trusted team of Underwriters can offer you and to find out more about our classes, our agility, and decision-making approach, contact any of our underwriters or call us on +44 (0)207 050 3000.

Should you have a specific claims issue or wish to find out more about our first-class claims support please go to our claims page, for general claims service queries in the first instance please contact your agent or broker.

Meet the team

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Daisy-May White

Assistant Underwriter

London

Daisy-May White ___ Assistant Underwriter

0207 050 3000

daisy-may.white@atrium-uw.com

Location __ London

Department __ Marine Liability, Marine Property

Daisy-May White is an Assistant Underwriter on the Marine Liability and Hull team and was previously at Liberty Syndicates for four years.

Year joined Atrium: 2015.

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David Sankey

Head of Marine, Aviation and Energy Lines | Business Group Leader

London

David Sankey ___ Head of Marine, Aviation and Energy Lines | Business Group Leader

0207 050 3000

david.sankey@atrium-uw.com

Location __ London

Department __ Marine Liability, Marine Property, Leadership

David started his career with a P & I Club in 1984.

In 1989 David moved to a Lloyd's broker where he specialised in the placement of Marine and Energy Liability business.

In 1999 David joined AIG as a Senior Marine Liability Underwriter and was appointed Vice President in 2006 responsible for all Marine Liability business worldwide outside of the USA. 

David joined Liberty Syndicates in 2009 as Class Underwriter for Liability and War.

David joined Atrium Syndicate 609 in September 2015 in the position of Marine and Energy Liability Underwriter.

He is a member of the LMA Marine Committee and the LMA Joint Liability Committee.

Year joined Atrium: 2015.

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Michael Cusition

Underwriter

London

Michael Cusition ___ Underwriter

0207 050 3000

michael.cusition@atrium-uw.com

Location __ London

Department __ Marine Property

Michael joined Atrium in 2021 having previously worked at both Munich Re Syndicate and Axa XL, having worked in the Marine & Energy Liability Markets for over 10 years. Michael holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Lancaster.