Van Spanos Joins Core Specialty Insurance E&S Group as VP

Van Spanos has joined Cincinnati, Ohio-based Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc.’s newly formed excess and surplus (E&S) primary Product Liability group as vice president.

Spanos is responsible for managing all facets of this business, including direct oversight of the underwriting team dedicated to the E&S Product Liability market segment.

The Product Liability line will operate as a component of Core Specialty’s existing Excess Casualty Division.

Spanos was most recently with Tokio Marine Insurance where he served as the vice president of National Product Liability. In this role, he was responsible for starting the Product Liability division. Prior to joining Tokio Marine, Spanos spent the previous 16 years with Great American Insurance serving as a divisional vice president.

Core Specialty is an insurance holding company operating through StarStone Specialty Insurance Company, a U.S. excess and surplus lines insurer, and StarStone National Insurance Company, a U.S. admitted markets insurer.