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Holborn is an independent reinsurance brokerage firm offering advanced analytic tools, global market access and responsive account services to clients across the United States.

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Locations

New York City

180 Maiden Lane
Suite 701
New York, NY 10038
Tel: 212-797-2285

Minneapolis

7900 Xerxes Ave S
Suite 2300
Bloomington, MN 55431
Tel: 651-365-3560

Kansas City

10801 Mastin Street
Suite 210
Overland Park, KS 66210
Tel: 212-797-2285

Leadership Team

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We’re not only one of the most experienced reinsurance brokers in the world, but also one of a very few independent intermediaries owned by its employees.

WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING

“Our partnership with Holborn is invaluable to the success of our Company. Our relationship extends well beyond reinsurance; Holborn consistently acts as a trusted advisor to us. Their outstanding analytical capabilities have been instrumental in guiding our decisions and strategy, and I truly appreciate the depth of insight they bring to the table.”
Siobhan Davey, President & CEOBroome Co-operative Insurance Company
“Holborn’s dependability, consistency and expertise really carries the day for me. Holborn brings such a broad exposure globally to nationally to locally, punches above its weight and sees it all. It is a huge value add for us.”
Joel P. Murray, CPCU, Board Chair, President and CEONorfolk & Dedham
“We have always found alignment between Holborn’s employee-owned and our Mutual structure: We are both focused on delivering long-term value to those we serve, without the short-term distraction of public shareholders. Beyond which, when I think about Holborn, they have always understood us. They specialize in us, and understand our business in Michigan better than anyone I’ve seen.”
Donald E. Simon, CPCU, ARe, LLIF, Chief Executive OfficerFarm Bureau Insurance
“Holborn has trained and developed some of the very best and brightest industry professionals during its long, storied history. This does not go unnoticed. The entire Holborn team always develop a value-driven strategy to best position its clients for success. At Federated, we so appreciate everyone’s professionalism, advise, care and genuine concern for our best interests. Holborn makes Federated better and making us better brings more value, more success to our clients.”
Mike Keller, CFOFederated Mutual Insurance Co.
“Everyone trusts one another. I put Holborn on our Mount Rushmore of business partners. Holborn has a key role in new market and product development.”
Jamie Loiacono, Vice President – ClaimsAcuity Insurance
“Holborn has always been there for us. We are more than just a client to them. They are a partner with us. They develop relationships with our reinsurers, and we talk, and we cannot be successful without them.”
Jeff Menary, Chief Executive OfficerGrinnell Mutual
“We feel Holborn has our interests at heart when placing our reinsurance; we can access many additional services around analytics. Holborn is big enough to do all that yet small enough to offer that small-town feel.”
Peter Hellie, President & CEONorth Star Mutual Insurance Company
“They have never stopped looking to improve or tweak our reinsurance program to ensure it is exactly suited to our changing needs,” he says. “They consider not just what works for us, but for the reinsurers to manage their expected return.”
Shannon Rutledge, President and CEO Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa

Risk that is understood, managed, and clearly communicated in a way that is consumable to everyone in your organization encourages a strong risk culture. Governance, training strategies, metrics & controls, and capital allocation are techniques to ensure day-to-today adherence to your ERM program and corporate strategy. Leveraging Holborn’s comprehensive tool suite, we help tailor an ERM framework that supports managing your risks. 

One of the key objectives of an insurer’s operating strategy is to maintain an acceptable target financial strength rating. Holborn has extensive experience in helping clients balance the sometimes-conflicting objectives of growth, profitability, portfolio optimization, capital adequacy, and multiple return metrics. Our robust financial analytics enable our clients to assess multiple key performance measures and analyze how various strategic decisions could be expected to impact the company’s financials and underlying qualitative and quantitative rating factors. 

By their very nature, catastrophic property losses can wreak havoc on businesses and personal property, as well as the balance sheet. Media coverage of the devastation from a hurricane or tornado often makes these events seem “unexpected.” Even though recorded weather history is relatively limited (on a geologic scale), it’s clear that outliers, storms of extraordinary magnitude, have occurred before and will again. 

It shouldn’t be a surprise that some of the largest insured events we see are not property, but liability-driven. Losses stemming from workers’ compensation, mass tort, clash, runaway defense costs, product liability, and punitive damage judgments can quickly add up to amounts greater than most weather or fire damages. Holborn monitors the litigious US landscape, tracking the latest judicial rulings and regional and local hotspots.

Contract wordings are continuously evolving to stay on top of emerging risks such as cyber, intellectual property, and labor laws. Working together, we ensure that the proper coverage and limits are maintained.  

Holborn’s Reinsurance Security Committee (a select group of our senior managers across multiple disciplines) meets regularly to review the financial condition of each reinsurer. Each entity is closely monitored for financial and operational performance through meetings with management, rating agency activity and news releases. Our monthly newsletters keep clients informed of any noteworthy changes. 

Holborn can provide clients with access to RiskRater®, a proprietary reinsurance pricing engine designed (but not limited) to manage portfolios of mutual insurers. RiskRater® employs a systematic approach to pricing that is consistent across client companies. Smaller companies with sparse rating histories are rated with the support of defined cohorts and compared with industry information to enable a more informed view of risk. Developed to be nimble and flexible without proprietary software installations, RiskRater® requires only a connection to a centralized database, where all data (present and historical) is stored and archived, allowing access to detailed information for year over year pricing. 

Our Vision

Our way includes giving the client peace of mind of knowing they can “shake the same hand” again and again over time, and that our team is uniquely positioned to represent their interests in the marketplace, given our in-depth knowledge of their operations, business plans and issues, nuances, history, and the way they like to receive service from us and from their reinsurers. This is how we define our “client intimacy strategy.”

Our Mission

The mission of Holborn Corporation is to provide efficient tailored risk assessment and reinsurance solutions to US insurance organizations, using markets of appropriate quality. Services include risk analytics, contract and claims management, and the maintenance of trading relationships with high-quality reinsurance markets throughout the world.