Navigators launches specialty business program division

NEW YORK--Navigators Management Co., the principal underwriting agency subsidiary of the New York-based Navigators Group Inc., has established a specialty program division.

The new division will focus on developing portfolios of business in a variety of specialty industry niches produced through program administrators. Among the products underwritten by the specialty program division will be property, general liability and commercial auto.

Rick Cullen has joined Navigators as president of the new division and will be based in the company's Schaumburg, Ill., office. Mr. Cullen has spent more than 15 years working in the development, implementation and management of specialty programs and products.

The Navigators Group is an international insurance holding company with insurance company operations, underwriting management companies and operations at Lloyd's of London.