BHSI – Healthcare and Casualty Specialty Partner Supporting Healthcare and Senior-Care-Connected Risks
Supporting Senior-Care Ecosystems Indirectly Through Healthcare, Casualty, and Program Claims Leadership
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) is a specialty insurer providing commercial-property, casualty, healthcare, executive and professional-lines, and other products globally. Its healthcare and casualty businesses serve hospitals, physicians, senior-care organizations, and other healthcare-related risks, and it maintains a senior healthcare and casualty claims leadership team across North America. Senior-care providers and programs may encounter BHSI as a primary or excess capacity provider or as a claim-handling and program partner.
Who Is BHSI in Healthcare and Senior-Care Risk?
BHSI offers healthcare-liability, professional-liability, and casualty products tailored to healthcare providers, including integrated programs and specialty program structures. Its leadership team includes roles such as Head of Global Claims, SVP Healthcare & Casualty Claims, Head of Claims North America, and Head of Specialty Programs Claims, reflecting a strong focus on claims governance.
BHSI’s healthcare-liability offerings may be used by hospitals, healthcare systems, and senior-care-connected organizations that require bespoke coverage structures, higher limits, and sophisticated claims handling. Specialty program claims leadership also interacts with program administrators and MGAs that focus on healthcare and senior-care risks.
Why Senior-Care Ecosystems Need BHSI
Senior-care ecosystems rely on BHSI when:
- They participate in healthcare or casualty programs requiring large-limit or specialty-claims capabilities.
- They use BHSI as a capacity provider for senior-care-related programs.
- They value strong claims leadership and collaborative claims handling.
This makes high-quality incident and claims data, including details of litigation and resolution, crucial for BHSI’s underwriting and claims-strategy work.
Case Study
A national senior-care program uses BHSI as a key capacity and claims partner. BHSI’s claims leadership requests detailed claim files and incident data across participating facilities, including severity drivers, litigation outcomes, and trends by jurisdiction, plus exposure data and program-level governance practices. Program administrators compile information from multiple sources, but without a unified data structure, trend analysis is limited.
The program adopts Caring Data to standardize incident and claims fields across all participating facilities and to capture claim-lifecycle information relevant to BHSI’s claims analytics. BHSI uses the structured data to refine claims-handling strategies, adjust program structures, and recommend risk-management focus areas, while facilities gain insight into how operational practices influence claim outcomes.
Testimonials
“Our program contacts told us BHSI’s claims leaders appreciated the depth and consistency of the Caring Data claims reports.”
“We now see how better claims-lifecycle data supports more strategic collaboration with BHSI on both underwriting and claims.”
Key Contact
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI)
Role: specialty insurer providing healthcare, casualty, and specialty-program capacity with strong global claims leadership.
Website:
https://www.bhspecialty.com
Address (listing):
181 Bay Street, Suite 2500, Toronto, ON M5J 2T3 (North American operations commonly headquartered in Boston)
Phones (listing): 617-936-2900 (claims); +1-617-936-2906
Emails (listing): david.crowe@bhspecialty.com (Head of Global Claims); courtney.koch@bhspecialty.com (SVP, Healthcare & Casualty Claims); rob.romeo@bhspecialty.com (Head of Claims, North America); george.marr@bhspecialty.com (Head of Specialty Programs Claims)
Contacts (listing): David Crowe; Courtney Koch; Rob Romeo; George Marr
Final Thoughts
Senior-care ecosystems benefit when specialty carriers like BHSI bring healthcare expertise, casualty capacity, and strong claims leadership to senior-care-connected programs. Caring Data enhances these relationships by providing detailed, structured incident and claims information that supports sophisticated underwriting and claims strategies.
Mutual of Omaha – Long-Term-Care Insurance – United States