
Meet Shawn Fatheree, VP — Carrier Practice Sales
We are pleased to announce that Shawn Fatheree has recently joined our dedicated Carrier Practice team as VP — Carrier Practice Sales.
In a marketplace filled with opportunities for Program Administrators (PAs) and MGAs, a partnership with Gallagher Bassett (GB) can help enhance your presence and unlock opportunities to scale your business for strategic, long-term growth. The landscape for PAs and MGAs is competitive, entrepreneurial, and ever-changing, making a successful claims operation key to outpacing the competition. GB delivers superior risk management and claims outcomes through a high-performing and highly specialized claims management function. We know that specialty lines written through PAs and MGAs require a specialized claims operation to mitigate their risk. GB’s robust team of specialists have the deep technical expertise to manage claims across all lines of coverage, complexity, and specialized liability to help you achieve superior outcomes. Our partners act with confidence knowing they have:
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We understand that carriers are under pressure to grow profitably, continuously develop products, expand in markets, delight customers, and keep pace with technology.
Key strategies to help Program Administrators and MGAs stand out from the competition and essential tips on how to achieve successful claims outcomes now and in the future.
The program industry has grown into a leading alternative to the traditional property and casualty marketplace. Learn how partnered claim models can deliver superior results
for policyholders and clients.
GB’s Carrier Practice was created with one goal in mind – address the unique challenges facing today’s claim leadership teams through partnered operating models that deliver superior results.
We understand that carriers are under pressure to grow profitably, continuously develop products, expand in markets, delight customers, and keep pace with technology.
In times of uncertainty, insurance carriers can remain resilient and continue to grow…
According to a recent survey*, roughly 30% of run-off deals are motivated by disposing of non-core business; over 15% of relate to trends in social inflation and managing…
Within a dynamic insurance marketplace, the ability to continuously develop products, expand in markets, delight customers and keep pace…
A start-up MGA and its carrier partner engaged Gallagher Bassett to initiate and manage the launch of its newest program. After two successful years, the start-up elected to harness their learnings and manage their own in-house team. GB was eventually reengaged to enhance performance and integrate additional improvements for continued growth including exposure-based staffing, policy level data transmission and enhanced compliance with Carrier Practice standards.

We are pleased to announce that Shawn Fatheree has recently joined our dedicated Carrier Practice team as VP — Carrier Practice Sales.

Following the release of The Carrier Perspective: 2026 Claims Insights, our annual whitepaper offering a comprehensive overview of the carrier market, Insurance Business Canada covers some of our key findings, as well as how North American carriers are tackling a structural shift in claims costs.

Irina Simpson, EVP — Workers’ Compensation, speaks to Business Insurance about Florida and New Jersey’s tightened workers’ compensation eligibility criteria for undocumented workers, highlighting the broader impact of shifting liability and the new laws’ possible legal, medical and operational ramifications.

Social inflation continues to influence the carrier market, and the once tried-and-tested strategy of raising premium rates has proven inconsistent with today’s insurance landscape. Gallagher Bassett unpacks results from our MGA Market Pulse: Key Insights for 2026 survey and explores new, more effective solutions for managing social inflation with the help of a trusted claims and risk management partner.
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