Travelers Insurance senior business development manager Jay Bowey is leaving to join Indemnity Risk Solutions as underwriting development manager, Insurance Times has learnt.

Bowey will start work at IRS on 1 September.

IRS chief executive Paul Lawrence said: "I am thrilled that Jay has decided to join IRS. She will be joining our ever-increasing team of experienced senior underwriters, and joins us at a time when IRS is becoming a significant market force in the professional indemnity arena."

IRS plan to gain solicitors' professional indemnity insurance market share across all sizes of law firms.