New hires follow on from four regional PI appointments in 2014

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JLT Specialty’s Financial Lines Group has appointed James Frost and Matthew Baker from Aon to strengthen their regional solicitors’ professional indemnity (PI) team.

Frost will be based in Birmingham while Baker will operate out of Bristol, and their roles will be to grow JLT Specialty’s regional solicitor’s PI business.

They will both be joining the business during Q1 2015.

They follow the appointments of Tony Brown, Toby King, Joel Harding and Gareth Greaves-Milner in 2014, giving JLT’s growing client base nationwide access to PI specialists.

JLT Specialty’s Financial Lines Group head of professional indemnity Adam Codrington said: “We are delighted that industry professionals of the calibre and experience of James and Matthew have chosen to join JLT.

“We are intent on building our reputation as market leaders in this area and they bring with them a huge amount of sector knowledge and a commitment to service excellence in line with our client first philosophy.”

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