Marsh

Marsh is the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor. With around 40,000 colleagues operating in more than 130 countries, Marsh serves commercial and individual clients with data-driven risk solutions and advisory services. Marsh is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. With annual revenue over $17 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. Marsh work with clients of all sizes to define, design, and deliver innovative solutions to better quantify and manage risk. They offer risk management, risk consulting, insurance broking, alternative risk financing, and insurance program management services to businesses, government entities, organizations, and individuals around the world.

With more than 175 dedicated construction experts, the Marsh Specialty construction practice is one of the largest teams of construction broking specialists in the UK. For more than 30 years, they have worked in close partnership with a wide variety of clients in the construction, infrastructure, and engineering sectors. From multi-million turnover family businesses to multi-billion multinationals, they tailor their broad range of services to meet clients' needs, so that they secure the benefits of market leading insurance placement facilities.

Being one of the largest construction insurance brokers gives them a unique position in a market that is facing very challenging conditions that are unlikely to improve in the near term. Marsh’s construction specialists work seamlessly across all classes of insurance, offering single point of contact solutions for all the construction related classes of insurance, including construction all risks, professional indemnity, latent defects, employers liability, public liability, and surety bonds, amongst others. 

Marsh’s size enables them to offer a very broad range of placement services from within a dedicated practice and in-house broking teams. Supplementing their core insurance broking capabilities, Marsh’s risk consulting and advisory practice is available to help clients understand their level of risk tolerance, associated risk appetite, and optimal programme design.

Craig Charles, Senior Vice President, has extensive experience of both the construction and real estate risk insurance needs of major residential and mixed use developers. Craig started his career in Construction and Real Estate at a London insurance broker in early 2003, handling a number of property owner and developer accounts. Craig later joined Marsh in 2011 and continues to focus on commercial and residential developer clients in the Owners & Developers team.

Craig Charles commented "We are very proud to be a member of the Community of Practice on Managing Construction Risk and fully support CIRIA’s aim to bring together practitioners from construction and insurance sectors aimed at improving the management of risk and financial performance. We are pleased that CIRIA will help deliver more focused collaboration and enhance knowledge transfer in risk management by holding a series of network events and providing integrated resources within one point of reference."

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