Tom Barrett
Director — Environmental/Energy
Everest National Insurance Co.
Liberty Corner, N.J.
Years at company: 3.5.
Training my sights on insurance: I graduated from Seton Hall University in 2005 as a finance major. I had never planned to get into the insurance industry, but when looking for a job on my school's career website, I found a training program for the carrier Crum & Forster. It sounded like a fun and interesting opportunity. In this training program, I went through an underwriting focus, but spent several weeks in claims, loss control, and in Property, Inland Marine and Excess Umbrella. These rotations lasted for six months. After that, we were able to select or rank what department we wanted to work in permanently. I was able to get my first choice — the Specialty Brokers Division — where I did more training for an additional six months and wrote Auto, General Liability and Workers' Comp through wholesalers. Throughout my training, I was really impressed with how much access we had to senior members of the management team. It was a unique opportunity to get to know them.
Recommended For You
Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader
Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:
- Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
- Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
- Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
- Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
Already have an account? Sign In Now
© 2025 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
